#follow palestinians share their posts. please for the love of god

[imaginethathaikyuu]

it actually makes me sick to see people share the BDS boycott list but continue to support companies on the list lmao

one of my mutuals just made 3 tweets in a row about getting mcdonalds when a month ago they were making a thread of helpful information, posting the bds list, and tweeting the watermelon emoji

like do you actually give a fuck about whats happening or are you only virtue signaling for retweets? this shit is so fucking mind numbing like im so pissed off and i know im directing my anger at something small retrospectively but how are you going to be a hypocrite in this situation how are you going to pretend to care how are you going to ignore the simple things we’ve been asked to do i want to just scream

when the bare minimum is not supporting corrupt brands, and self proclaimed leftists can’t even do that, how is anything going to change. am i going to be angry for the rest of my life

[probablyasocialecologist]

The pictures of premature infants at al-Shifa hospital wrapped in foil and blankets after their incubators lost power during the siege. The babies at al-Nasr hospital whose bodies were found decomposing on hospital beds after a forced evacuation. The emaciated figure and wide eyes of Yazan al-Kafarna, a Palestinian child with cerebral palsy who died of hunger and malnutrition in Rafah. And just as haunting, the pictures of life in Gaza before October 7 that capture just how much has been lost: stretches of highway running along the beach at sunset, beautiful buildings lit up at night, couples dancing, libraries, cafés, frescoes, kitchen interiors, people smiling in restaurants, flowers, trees. “The memories brought up on your smartphone return you for a moment to your past life, to its atmosphere of ease and the embrace of friends,” writes Sarah Aziza’s cousin Nabil S. in a letter from Gaza, published in Mizna, describing what it’s like to look at photos from before the bombardment. “It is as if this forgotten life now presses itself upon us against our will — for these pictures are all that remain of our family and loved ones. Only photos, for us to weep and lament over, for we locked the doors tightly when we left our homes. We left with the keys in our hands.” We are not used to this — not to the gruesomeness, the ceaselessness, the direct address. Thirteen-year-old Nadin Abdullatif asks the camera in English, “Does no one care about the two million people here in Gaza? Does no one care about us? I don’t know. What is happening here? What has happened to the world? I’m suffering, and every other child is suffering. So please, notice us!” Speaking with a quivering voice over footage of people fleeing al-Shifa, Yara Eid begs, “Guys, please. Let’s stop this now. Like talk about it, share. I don’t know. Call — anyone. Try to do something. I never imagined this would happen, this is another Nakba.” Motaz Azaiza posts on X and Instagram, “You are all useless. Without shame watching us get killed one by one. Will wait my turn to be killed by Israel. And believe me you are gonna do nothing.” People in the comments say don’t give up, we need you, the world sees you, we are trying to speak up, but it’s true, we are useless, we’re ashamed of ourselves, God forgive us, we’ve failed you. This is what images on social media can do — activate an intense, genuine parasocial attachment, the same kind of attachment we feel toward strangers online who invite us to follow their motherhood journeys, their sobriety journeys, their cancer journeys. Nobody expected to follow someone’s genocide journey, their famine journey. Yet here we are.

[puregaalee]

PureGaaLee's WIP Your Heart 2023: Event Wrap

Hello, PGL followers and event participants. I am going to start this event wrap on a somber and necessarily serious note.

If you were keeping track of the event dates, then you know this event wrap was originally scheduled to be released mid October when the WIPYHO officially ended. That did not happen due to the increased and on-going assault on Gaza, Palestine by the settler-colony known as Israel. With the genocide still currently unfolding, my attention and priorities have not been on fandom--and I know I am not alone in that.

I wanted to post-pone making this event wrap-up because of what's happening, but now that it's been nearly two months since the end of the event, I did not want to keep participants waiting. So I apologize for the wait, but I hope people are not only understanding, but also paying close attention to the escalation in ethnic cleansing taking place and doing what they can for Palestinians whether that's sharing posts, donating, or going to protests.

Thank you to everyone for bearing with me and thank you so much for your participation in this event. Below the cut is the official event-wrap up. Please make sure to check out all the wonderful pieces by the author/artist duos who made this event possible.

And please keep Palestine in your hearts.

WIPYHO Ao3 Collection

The Ball, the Boxing Match, and the Bedchamber by a_gay_poster/@ghoste-catte with art by @romanticdeity [NSFW]:   When gentleman pugilist Rock Lee makes the acquaintance of a prince in a most unexpected way, he does not anticipate how much his life will change. Nor does he anticipate the dangerous feelings the prince will inspire.

Born Under Punches by urieskooki/@urieskooki with art by @bayheart: Team Gai have been sent on a mission to track down the Akatsuki member who's been whisking away jinchūriki with terrifying efficiency. When a clue left behind at the site of the Ichibi’s capture leads them to Amegakure, Lee must put aside any distractions to do one thing: complete the mission - even if those distractions include rescuing his missing team and the mysterious boy he keeps running into around the city.

The Grapes of Debauchery by solas_oiche with art by @bayheart [NSFW]: Lee gets drunk. Shenanigans ensue. How does it always end up being Gaara’s problem in the end?

Kept Under Lock and Key by bananahwormz/@bananahwormz with art by @arecu21: Gaara discovered his proclivity for the same sex at some point in his teen or young adult life, but it wasn't something he paid much attention to or cared much about compared to all his other priorities. Sometimes he would confuse friendships for crushes, but due to either what he would later discover to be a fear of rejection or a fear of himself, he vowed to never act on these emotions. Believing himself to be alone in the way he loves and who he loves, he lets infatuation come over him and run its course before finally letting go every time and making his peace. As his paramours marry the women of their dreams, proving his theories correct, his need—no, WANT—for romantic companionship becomes easier to tame. But one bachelor seems hard-set to challenge his precepts, whether intentionally or not. How and why is Papa Lee still single? And would he ever consider…

My Home is Your Home by Luna_Lee/@sagemoderocklee with art by Roarsh/@roarshackle Gaara's new apartment isn't much, but in his mind it's perfect. It might be tiny, but it has what he needs: a bedroom, a living room, a bathroom, a teeny tiny kitchen, and a rather attractive neighbor. But it also has something that wasn't mentioned in the lease.

Not a Place of Honor by ghostinthestalls/@ghost-in-the-stalls with art by @pannaflara: Rock Lee is a soldier in the Konoha military, sent down to unearth the greatest - and possibly also the worst - discovery in human history.

Not God, Not Us, But Something Else by ghostinthestalls/@ghost-in-the-stalls with art by @reject-tiefling: The Lovelink Program from Anteros Co. is finally up and running - much to Rock Lee's distaste, and his friends' excitement. Love takes hard work (two things Lee is very passionate about!), but everyone has their moments of self-doubt. Pushing through years and layers of it is hard enough already in the face of a corporation telling him they can make it all easier for a small fee. Complicating things further is the unsettling man from his dreams who Lee has now begun to see in his waking life. What does it mean to properly love a person, specially curated just for you?

Sing a Song of Sleeptide by solas_oiche with art by kairn_orz: Five times that Lee and Gaara share each other’s beds, and one time they share their own.

Triple Time by gidget_goes/@gidget-goes with art by @slap-my-hand: Even a centuries-old war or the bitterest of winter storms won’t dull the lavish gleam of Konoha’s royal court. For Gaara and his siblings, though, the glitz of the aristocracy is just a cover. They’ve been sent North by their father on a deadly mission: to retrieve an ancient artefact, powerful enough to end the war – and the nation of Konoha – for good. But when he begins to fall for a kindhearted serving boy, Gaara finds his loyalties are thrown into disarray. Soon enough, he’s questioning his whole quest for victory. Will he remain true to his father, and fight for crown and glory? Or will new bonds and old dreams push him to strive for peace? And can he manage to convince his family that love is greater than any old treasure? (Probably not. It is a pretty baller artefact.)

[cetra]

This Christmas, I won't be celebrating as God's children in Palestine are facing a horrible genocide and Christmas can't even be properly celebrated in Jesus's birthplace. If you also find yourself struggling right now, or simply want to learn more about the situation in Palestine through a Christian perspective during this holy season in the religion, i highly recommend if you haven't already checking out the following notable Palestinian Christian resources

Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, a Palestinian pastor in Bethlehem

Sabeel and its North American branch Friends of Sabeel

Rev. Mitri Raheb of the Christmas Church in Bethlehem

who has written many books!!!

Lina Abu Akleh, niece of the martyred Palestinian-American Christian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

Given that Lina is also Armenian which she briefly mentions in the linked article, I'd like to dedicate some space in this post to those from the Indigenous, Armenian state of Artsakh who have been displaced in their recent ethnic cleansing from the region at the hands of Azerbaijan and with the help of Israel. As Armenian Christians (among the oldest Christians in the world) traditionally prepare to celebrate Christmas on January 6th, you can consider sparing some extra holiday cash to AGBU, or simply taking the time to educate yourself on the plight of Armenians whether they be from Artsakh or reside within the Armenian quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem where they also face age old struggles

And to further combine this shared struggle of Palestinians and Armenians at all times of the year and throughout history you can also check out A Palestinian Armenian: The Intertwine between the Social and the Political by Varsen Aghabekian w/ a foreword from aforementioned Rev. Raheb

Anyone else with some more additions please feel free to include them in the notes. No matter what faith you come from or not at all, please keep these vulnerable people in your thoughts this Christmastime, and may God bless them all 🧡

[doobaysbride]

Please help spread an urgent appeal to save the lives of my children in Gaza

Welcome,

I write to you with a heart heavy with sadness and anxiety. I recently launched a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to save my children in Gaza, but have not received the support we desperately need. I recently lost everything and am now homeless and this loss has affected me greatly.

The situation has become unbearable, and I suffer from severe depression and suicidal thoughts. I desperately need your help and support. Please consider helping us in any way you can, whether by donating, by sharing my campaign with your friends, by writing a post about my campaign, or by sharing the last five posts from my page.

You can see my campaign at the following link: https://gofund.me/1a528474

Thank you for your time and understanding. Any support, no matter how small, will make a big difference in our lives. My campaign is documented by Ibtisam, 90gost and many other documenters.

Please help Alaa and her family to escape the genocide by spreading this post and/donate the money to

Thanks for anyone whom already participating! May god bless you with lots of fortune and love! 🍀🫶🏻

[musicgoon]

Recommended Reading

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Christianity

A Conversation with J. D. Greear, the New President of the Southern Baptist Convention

Truth, Power, and Pence at the SBC

The SBC’s Resolution on Abuse

Complementarians Should Be Toughest on Abuse

Maintaining Congregational Connection

Why Teens See Social Media as a Mixed Bag

“Is My Baby In Heaven?” Why I Believe God’s Word Assures Us We Can Say, “Yes.”

Not Worrying ≠ Not Caring

A Psalm-Singing Resurgence (Joe Holland)

Every Love That Slipped Away

Culture

Composer Michael Giacchino Has Become Pixar’s Secret Weapon

‘Captain Marvel’ Will Be the First Major Comic Book Movie to Be Scored By a Woman

Marvel Celebrates 10 Years of the MCU With a New Website, Glitzy Gold Posters

A bold dream sequence proves Cloak & Dagger isn't just another superhero series

Tokyo DisneySea Announces $2.3 Billion Expansion With ‘Peter Pan,’ ‘Tangled,’ ‘Frozen’ Areas and In-Park Hotel

The Futures of Pixar and Disney Animation Are in Good Hands

Brad Bird Talks ‘Incredibles 2,’ ‘Iron Giant,’ ‘Jonny Quest,’ ‘Outer Limits’ and More [Interview]

Pop Culture Imports: A Sleek Thai Teen Heist Film, the Best Romantic K-Drama Right Now, and a Gripping Palestinian Thriller

The Morning Watch: The Hacking of ‘Ocean’s 8’, ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ 16-Bit Train Heist & More

Better Late Than Never: 19 Must-See Movies from 1999

What Teens Really Say About Sex, Drugs And Sadness

On Hayley Kiyoko, Queerness and Mainstream Pop

Outspoken Medical Resident Dismissed from Vanderbilt University Medical Center

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Will Introduce a Luscious Singapore to a Worldwide Audience

Beloved Community Mural in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo Defaced by Graffiti

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Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression. – Irving Kirsch • Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I’m serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It’s also a “forever document” that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people? – Brendon Burchard • Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way. – Melinda Gates • Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. – John C. Maxwell • Everybody wants confidence but you don’t find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit. – Rick Warren • Faith is the substance of hope – of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person – that is faith. – Duane Chapman • Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn • Free Yourself helps you learn to tenderly hold your heart with your own loving hands. – Jacob Liberman • God helps those who help themselves. – Benjamin Franklin • God himself helps those who dare. – Ovid • God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can’t do it. I can’t be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves. – Chuck Smith • Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help. – Mahatma Gandhi • Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed. – Wendell Phillips • Helping others is like helping yourself. – Henry Flagler • How can there be self-help groups? – Steven Wright • I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, ‘How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success’. And people buy this huge book and it’s all blank pages, and the first page would just say, ‘Stop feeling sorry for yourself–and you will be happy.’ – Stephen Fry • I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else. – Marwan Barghouti • I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends’ opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not. – Jessica Simpson • I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don’t usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, ‘The Power of Intention,’ which I loved. I’m not a religious guy, in fact I’m probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful. – Chris Pine • I do believe in self-help. – Clint Eastwood • I don’t ask myself, “Well, does God exist or does God not exist?” I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, “God, I can’t do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today.” And that works fine for me. – Stephen King • I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes. – Isabel Allende • I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that. – Bonnie Raitt • I have had moments where I’ve had mental-health issues and I’ve felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help. – Mike White • I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. – Napoleon Hill • I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do. – Drew Carey • I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective. – Allen Evangelista • I look at every book as a self-help book. – Marc Maron • I never read a self-help book except for the Bible. – Jon Heder • i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new. – Jeanette Winterson • I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It’s a form of self-help. – Brian K. Vaughan • I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups. – Michael Horton • I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I’ve just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I’ve read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. – Jenna Fischer • I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – George Carlin • I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’ – Brian Kiley • I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens. – Justin Timberlake • I’d been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. – Clarence Thomas • If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help! – B. R. Ambedkar • If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help. – Wes Smith • If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help others to take responsibility for themselves. Help them to see how they are creating their own suffering. Every now and then, you will encounter innocent ones who are suffering through no fault of their own, particularly animals and children. Do not hesitate! Help them. – Leonard Jacobson • If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? – George Carlin • If you’re reading it in a book, folks, it ain’t self-help. It’s help. – George Carlin • I’m not a great believer in self-help. – Daniel Kahneman • I’m not that into reading. If I’m gonna read, I’m gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book. – Jon Heder • I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. – Jason Mraz • In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the ‘edge of history.’ There would be a real New Age. – Ken Wilber • In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions. – Don Henley • It is one thing to be a man’s wife – quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place – that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap. – Kelly Corrigan • It’s no accident that most self-help groups use ‘anonymous’ in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one. – Walter Kirn • I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal. – Lindsay Wagner • Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another…The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. – M. Scott Peck • Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball • Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise Hay • Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. – Maxwell Maltz • Most people don’t walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it’s unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It’s why I’m such a fan of self-help books. – Gabrielle Bernstein • Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. – Jane Siberry • Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. – Millicent Fenwick • No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. – Amelia Earhart • No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it’s luck. – Woody Allen • Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts. – Paul Brunton • Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. – Nathaniel Branden • One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good. – Louise Hay • One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking. – Julian Baggini • Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy. – Sue Thoele • Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others? – Ken Wilber • Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. – Guy Finley • Refuse to ever use the term ‘failure’ again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn’t go as planned you didn’t fail, you only produced a result. – Wayne Dyer • Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest…. But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the “truths” of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it. – Wendy Kaminer • Self help books are pointless. Here’s something for you… Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus. – Craig Ferguson • Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. – Abraham Maslow • Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. – Franklin D. Roosevelt • Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it’s at. – Janice Dickinson • Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. – Florence King • Self-help books for those who believe ‘You can have it all’ often advise, ‘Follow your bliss and money will follow.’ With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, ‘When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.’ – Warren Farrell • Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses. – Harriet Lerner • Self-help is the best help – Aesop • Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. – Morarji Desai • So many self-help ideas are like meringue – you take a big bite, and there’s nothing there. – Deborah Norville • Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn’t read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure. – Donald Miller • Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. – Mohsin Hamid • The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking. – Mark Ravenhill • The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity. – Herbert Hoover • The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way. – Herbert Hoover • The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter. – Dave Mustaine • The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you’ve lost your mind completely: You’ve entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht. – Cynthia Heimel • The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution. – J. G. Holland • The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives. – Martin Luther • The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others. – Theodore Roosevelt • The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue. – Samuel Smiles • The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves. – Horace Mann • The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it’s also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don’t see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that’s been there all along. – James Hillman • The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn’t really have any effect on me. – Oprah Winfrey • The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself. – Seth • The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.” But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations–to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess. – Richard P. Feynman • The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do. – Cesar Chavez • The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves. – Theodore Roosevelt • The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. – Samuel Smiles • The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates – Samuel Smiles • The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better. – Marc Maron • The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance… in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being. – Marcus Garvey • There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I’ve Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune. – Joan Rivers • There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can’t vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world. – Matthew Hussey • There’s so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don’t worry about the darkness – turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within – help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we’re really doing something, we’re doing something that brings that light of unity. – David Lynch • This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That’s Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can’t keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle. – Jasper Fforde • To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Nhat Hanh • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. – Bodhidharma • To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless. – Graeme Goldsworthy • Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I’m not helpless. Although help may come, I’m my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me. – Melody Beattie • Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language. – Francine Prose • Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. – Barbara Ehrenreich • Ultimately the greatest help is self-help. – Bruce Lee • Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy. – John Carroll • Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it’s usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn’t apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition. – Miranda July • Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education. – B. C. Forbes • When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself. – Wilferd Peterson • When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more. – Vinny Guadagnino • When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse “I don’t know where to start” is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It’s time you go figure it out! – Hal Elrod • When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it’s almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else. – Wayne Dyer • When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves. – Jane Roberts • When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. – Wayne Dyer • Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices. – Bell Hooks • Yes, I know, shaming, isn’t it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can’t take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my first novel, I was reading one of the self-help classics – and it’s as cheesy as you like, so feel free to laugh, Guardian readers – called Awaken The Giant Within, by Tony Robbins, and it inspired me to try. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look. – Louise Mensch • You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self. – Susan Jeffers • You can love more than one person at a time, and I don’t give a damn what the self-help books say. – Rita Mae Brown • You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path – and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us… or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else’s “story” to the point where you start writing it. – Neale Donald Walsch • You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself. – Oprah Winfrey • You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Bindi Irwin • You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn’t have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego. – Robert Thurman • You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you. – Bruce Lee • You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. – John Ruskin • You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them. – Jane Roberts • Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier. – Amy Poehler • Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out. – Jim Rohn • Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. – Samantha Morton

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• A self-help book can’t really address a problem unless it’s individualized. It’s not going to talk about a globalized problem. – Hank Azaria • A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. – James Allen • A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called ‘Zen’ -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan. – Alexander Gardner • All self-help is Buddhism with a service mark – Merlin Mann • An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its ‘self-help’ section: ‘For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it. – Roger Ebert • And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. • Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it. – Kevin Smith

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jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Help', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '32', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_help').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_help img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore. – David Levithan • Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem. – Muhammad Ali • Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. – Brendon Burchard • By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence. – Michael J. Gelb

[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God. – Aiden Wilson Tozer • Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don’t do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn’t work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn’t the focus. – Matt Chandler • Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian.” Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl’s Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens. – Kami Garcia • Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature. – Ken Wilber • Deepak Chopra, look at him. He’s probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don’t think he’s struggling for any marketing or exposure. You’ve just got to know where your audience is. – KRS-One • Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression. – Irving Kirsch • Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I’m serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It’s also a “forever document” that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people? – Brendon Burchard • Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way. – Melinda Gates • Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. – John C. Maxwell • Everybody wants confidence but you don’t find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit. – Rick Warren • Faith is the substance of hope – of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person – that is faith. – Duane Chapman • Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn • Free Yourself helps you learn to tenderly hold your heart with your own loving hands. – Jacob Liberman • God helps those who help themselves. – Benjamin Franklin • God himself helps those who dare. – Ovid • God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can’t do it. I can’t be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves. – Chuck Smith • Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help. – Mahatma Gandhi • Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed. – Wendell Phillips • Helping others is like helping yourself. – Henry Flagler • How can there be self-help groups? – Steven Wright • I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, ‘How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success’. And people buy this huge book and it’s all blank pages, and the first page would just say, ‘Stop feeling sorry for yourself–and you will be happy.’ – Stephen Fry • I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else. – Marwan Barghouti • I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends’ opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not. – Jessica Simpson • I definitely have a spiritual outlook. I don’t usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer, ‘The Power of Intention,’ which I loved. I’m not a religious guy, in fact I’m probably agnostic but I thought what this writer had to say was really powerful. – Chris Pine • I do believe in self-help. – Clint Eastwood • I don’t ask myself, “Well, does God exist or does God not exist?” I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, “God, I can’t do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today.” And that works fine for me. – Stephen King • I don’t read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don’t read self-help books because I don’t believe in shortcuts and loopholes. – Isabel Allende • I don’t want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody’s going through that. – Bonnie Raitt • I have had moments where I’ve had mental-health issues and I’ve felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help. – Mike White • I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. – Napoleon Hill • I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do. – Drew Carey • I like to remember what I have to be thankful for. When it gets bad, I usually list them out loud to my wife and myself. Helps me maintain a balanced perspective. – Allen Evangelista • I look at every book as a self-help book. – Marc Maron • I never read a self-help book except for the Bible. – Jon Heder • i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new. – Jeanette Winterson • I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It’s a form of self-help. – Brian K. Vaughan • I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups. – Michael Horton • I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I’ve just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I’ve read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. – Jenna Fischer • I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. – George Carlin • I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat the whole purpose.’ – Brian Kiley • I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens. – Justin Timberlake • I’d been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. – Clarence Thomas • If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • If you believe in living a respectable life, you believe in self-help which is the best help! – B. R. Ambedkar • If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help. – Wes Smith • If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help others to take responsibility for themselves. Help them to see how they are creating their own suffering. Every now and then, you will encounter innocent ones who are suffering through no fault of their own, particularly animals and children. Do not hesitate! Help them. – Leonard Jacobson • If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? – George Carlin • If you’re reading it in a book, folks, it ain’t self-help. It’s help. – George Carlin • I’m not a great believer in self-help. – Daniel Kahneman • I’m not that into reading. If I’m gonna read, I’m gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book. – Jon Heder • I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. – Jason Mraz • In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the ‘edge of history.’ There would be a real New Age. – Ken Wilber • In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions. – Don Henley • It is one thing to be a man’s wife – quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place – that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap. – Kelly Corrigan • It’s no accident that most self-help groups use ‘anonymous’ in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one. – Walter Kirn • I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal. – Lindsay Wagner • Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another…The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness. – M. Scott Peck • Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball • Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise Hay • Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. – Maxwell Maltz • Most people don’t walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it’s unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It’s why I’m such a fan of self-help books. – Gabrielle Bernstein • Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can. – Jane Siberry • Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. – Millicent Fenwick • No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. – Amelia Earhart • No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it’s luck. – Woody Allen • Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts. – Paul Brunton • Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. – Nathaniel Branden • One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good. – Louise Hay • One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking. – Julian Baggini • Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy. – Sue Thoele • Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral mastery starts with self. How do body and mind and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business? And how can I become more conscious of these already operating realities in myself and in others? – Ken Wilber • Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. – Guy Finley • Refuse to ever use the term ‘failure’ again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn’t go as planned you didn’t fail, you only produced a result. – Wayne Dyer • Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest…. But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market books about spirituality and religion celebrate emotionalism and denigrate reason. They elevate the “truths” of myths and parables over empiricism.) In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it. – Wendy Kaminer • Self help books are pointless. Here’s something for you… Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus. – Craig Ferguson • Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. – Abraham Maslow • Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition. – Franklin D. Roosevelt • Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it’s at. – Janice Dickinson • Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him. – Florence King • Self-help books for those who believe ‘You can have it all’ often advise, ‘Follow your bliss and money will follow.’ With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, ‘When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.’ – Warren Farrell • Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses. – Harriet Lerner • Self-help is the best help – Aesop • Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. – Morarji Desai • So many self-help ideas are like meringue – you take a big bite, and there’s nothing there. – Deborah Norville • Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn’t read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure. – Donald Miller • Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. – Mohsin Hamid • The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking. – Mark Ravenhill • The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity. – Herbert Hoover • The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the American way. – Herbert Hoover • The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter. – Dave Mustaine • The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you’ve lost your mind completely: You’ve entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht. – Cynthia Heimel • The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution. – J. G. Holland • The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives. – Martin Luther • The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others. – Theodore Roosevelt • The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue. – Samuel Smiles • The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves. – Horace Mann • The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it’s also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don’t see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that’s been there all along. – James Hillman • The older I get, the more centered I become and the more I think I really know about myself. What I know is that what other people do doesn’t really have any effect on me. – Oprah Winfrey • The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself. – Seth • The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.” But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations–to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to experiment to check again whether we have made the right guess. – Richard P. Feynman • The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do. – Cesar Chavez • The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves. – Theodore Roosevelt • The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual. – Samuel Smiles • The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates – Samuel Smiles • The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better. – Marc Maron • The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance… in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being. – Marcus Garvey • There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I’ve Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune. – Joan Rivers • There is a lot of stigma and snobbiness about the self-help genre, and I can’t vouch for everything out there, but for me, the idea of giving someone else the gift of inspiration and making them feel passionate and capable in an area of their life is the most incredible thing in the world. – Matthew Hussey • There’s so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don’t worry about the darkness – turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within – help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we’re really doing something, we’re doing something that brings that light of unity. – David Lynch • This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That’s Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can’t keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle. – Jasper Fforde • To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Nhat Hanh • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. – Bodhidharma • To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless. – Graeme Goldsworthy • Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I’m not helpless. Although help may come, I’m my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me. – Melody Beattie • Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language. – Francine Prose • Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss. – Barbara Ehrenreich • Ultimately the greatest help is self-help. – Bruce Lee • Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy. – John Carroll • Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it’s usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn’t apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition. – Miranda July • Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education. – B. C. Forbes • When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. He strives to maintain, enhance and assist life to make the most of itself. – Wilferd Peterson • When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more. – Vinny Guadagnino • When it comes to achieving your dreams, the excuse “I don’t know where to start” is no longer valid. Between the countless self-help books available on Amazon.com and the limitless supply of free articles found through Google, everything you need is just a click away. It’s time you go figure it out! – Hal Elrod • When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it’s almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else. – Wayne Dyer • When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves. – Jane Roberts • When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. – Wayne Dyer • Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices. – Bell Hooks • Yes, I know, shaming, isn’t it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can’t take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my first novel, I was reading one of the self-help classics – and it’s as cheesy as you like, so feel free to laugh, Guardian readers – called Awaken The Giant Within, by Tony Robbins, and it inspired me to try. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look. – Louise Mensch • You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self. – Susan Jeffers • You can love more than one person at a time, and I don’t give a damn what the self-help books say. – Rita Mae Brown • You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path – and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us… or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else’s “story” to the point where you start writing it. – Neale Donald Walsch • You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself. – Oprah Winfrey • You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Bindi Irwin • You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn’t have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego. – Robert Thurman • You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you. – Bruce Lee • You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. – John Ruskin • You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them. – Jane Roberts • Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier. – Amy Poehler • Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out. – Jim Rohn • Youve got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. – Samantha Morton

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Israel Is Welcoming U.S. Evangelicals for High Holiday Tourism

(Bloomberg) -- As the Jewish High Holiday season moves in, Israel is getting set to welcome a throng of religious visitors -- evangelical Christians. Bloomberg

Skift Take: Israel attracts a wide range of visitors, and evangelical Christians are coming in droves this year thanks in part to U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

— Andrew Sheivachman

As the Jewish High Holiday season moves in, Israel is getting set to welcome a throng of religious visitors — evangelical Christians.

Thousands will pour in from more than 80 countries to the streets of Jerusalem in early October for an annual march celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Jewish festival of Sukkot. As they follow in the footsteps of Jesus, whose holiday visit to the city is described in the Book of John, they’ll also be rallying behind the modern state of Israel.

Evangelicals from the U.S. alone pump more than half a billion dollars a year into Israeli tourism and charity, while endorsing the country’s conservative politics in a controversial alliance. Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Jewish state has energized fundraising efforts as evangelicals try to ramp up support for a land many see as God-given.

“After the elections, being pro-Israel became a part of the establishment, rather than part of the opposition,” said Rabbi Tuly Weisz, who raises money for charities from evangelicals through his israel365.com website. “I do believe that this year’s increase in tourism and overall growth in charitable giving can be partially attributed to the fact that the Trump administration is seen to be extremely pro-Israel.”

Although some fundraisers haven’t seen a Trump-related uptick in donations, Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, saw the U.S. president’s May visit as a peerless opportunity to recruit Christian support. He hailed Trump as the Jewish state’s best friend in a post to his 28 million Facebook followers, and draped buildings with three-story banners urging the U.S. president to “Make Israel Great.”

“I want to do whatever I can to influence him to care about the Jewish people,” Evans said.

Unparalled Support

Polls show no other group in the U.S. supports the Jewish state more than evangelicals — not even American Jews. Israel can count on their unstinting support in Washington, and Netanyahu recognizes the power of their backing as he faces multiple criminal investigations that could drive him from office.

“Millions and millions of Americans cheering him and donating money to Israel sends an image that is very powerful to the Israeli public,” said Jonathan Rynhold, a Bar-Ilan University political scientist who has studied the evangelicals’ relationship with Israel.

In the midst of an eastern European tour in July, the prime minister made sure to address the Washington conference organized by evangelical pastor John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, appearing on two massive screens by satellite from Budapest.

“We have no better friends than you,” Netanyahu declared. “You are always there for us.”

Alliance Questioned

Israel didn’t always welcome evangelicals, who are the subject of an anti-missionary law. Many believe Jews must return to the biblical Land of Israel to facilitate a Second Coming of Christ. Some say masses of Jews will die in the final struggle between God and Satan if they don’t accept Jesus Christ as their Lord.

Others see an unholy alliance. Deeply fervent Jews suspect all evangelicals are missionaries, while secular liberals deplore their conservative politics and support for Israel’s settlement of captured lands Palestinians claim for a state.

“We do not seek their honey, and we do not seek their bee sting,” said a West Bank rabbinical council’s 2014 ruling, quoting a Talmudic adage.

New Allies

Still, for official Israel, the outpouring of love is a boon as it seeks new allies in the face of growing antagonism in the U.S. and Western Europe toward its occupation of land Palestinians claim for a state. Evangelicals see things differently, and according to the Israeli Tourism Ministry are flying in in even greater numbers this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel captured Jerusalem’s Old City and West Bank biblical sites.

In a 2014 Pew Research Center poll, 82 percent of white evangelicals in the U.S. said they believe Israel was given by God to the Jewish people, versus 40 percent of Jews. Almost 60 percent of evangelicals, according to a 2015 Bloomberg poll, said they would back Israel regardless of U.S. interests.

Economic Boon

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is the heavyweight champ in raising money from evangelicals. His International Fellowship of Christians and Jews collected $132 million in 2015 — the last year for which records were publicly available — much of it going to the poor in Israel and other Jewish communities, according to Internal Revenue Service records.

“I demonstrated that there was this group out there that is growing in numbers and influence and that it’s important for the Jewish community to reach out to them, and that it could be done with integrity by a Jewish rabbi,” Eckstein said.

Organizations such as Hagee’s CUFI have modeled their approach on AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby known for its mastery of Washington politics, according to David Brog, a former CUFI chief executive now leading billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s campaign against Israel boycott efforts on college campuses.

“Almost every politician in America gets that if you want to appeal to evangelical Christians, you talk about traditional values, about being ‘pro-life’ and also about your support for Israel,” said Brog, a cousin of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. “Even a guy like Donald Trump who didn’t share the values of the religious Christian community was able to talk about Israel in a way that really galvanized people.”

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Israel Is Welcoming U.S. Evangelicals for High Holiday Tourism

(Bloomberg) -- As the Jewish High Holiday season moves in, Israel is getting set to welcome a throng of religious visitors -- evangelical Christians. Bloomberg

Skift Take: Israel attracts a wide range of visitors, and evangelical Christians are coming in droves this year thanks in part to U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

— Andrew Sheivachman

As the Jewish High Holiday season moves in, Israel is getting set to welcome a throng of religious visitors — evangelical Christians.

Thousands will pour in from more than 80 countries to the streets of Jerusalem in early October for an annual march celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Jewish festival of Sukkot. As they follow in the footsteps of Jesus, whose holiday visit to the city is described in the Book of John, they’ll also be rallying behind the modern state of Israel.

Evangelicals from the U.S. alone pump more than half a billion dollars a year into Israeli tourism and charity, while endorsing the country’s conservative politics in a controversial alliance. Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Jewish state has energized fundraising efforts as evangelicals try to ramp up support for a land many see as God-given.

“After the elections, being pro-Israel became a part of the establishment, rather than part of the opposition,” said Rabbi Tuly Weisz, who raises money for charities from evangelicals through his israel365.com website. “I do believe that this year’s increase in tourism and overall growth in charitable giving can be partially attributed to the fact that the Trump administration is seen to be extremely pro-Israel.”

Although some fundraisers haven’t seen a Trump-related uptick in donations, Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, saw the U.S. president’s May visit as a peerless opportunity to recruit Christian support. He hailed Trump as the Jewish state’s best friend in a post to his 28 million Facebook followers, and draped buildings with three-story banners urging the U.S. president to “Make Israel Great.”

“I want to do whatever I can to influence him to care about the Jewish people,” Evans said.

Unparalled Support

Polls show no other group in the U.S. supports the Jewish state more than evangelicals — not even American Jews. Israel can count on their unstinting support in Washington, and Netanyahu recognizes the power of their backing as he faces multiple criminal investigations that could drive him from office.

“Millions and millions of Americans cheering him and donating money to Israel sends an image that is very powerful to the Israeli public,” said Jonathan Rynhold, a Bar-Ilan University political scientist who has studied the evangelicals’ relationship with Israel.

In the midst of an eastern European tour in July, the prime minister made sure to address the Washington conference organized by evangelical pastor John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, appearing on two massive screens by satellite from Budapest.

“We have no better friends than you,” Netanyahu declared. “You are always there for us.”

Alliance Questioned

Israel didn’t always welcome evangelicals, who are the subject of an anti-missionary law. Many believe Jews must return to the biblical Land of Israel to facilitate a Second Coming of Christ. Some say masses of Jews will die in the final struggle between God and Satan if they don’t accept Jesus Christ as their Lord.

Others see an unholy alliance. Deeply fervent Jews suspect all evangelicals are missionaries, while secular liberals deplore their conservative politics and support for Israel’s settlement of captured lands Palestinians claim for a state.

“We do not seek their honey, and we do not seek their bee sting,” said a West Bank rabbinical council’s 2014 ruling, quoting a Talmudic adage.

New Allies

Still, for official Israel, the outpouring of love is a boon as it seeks new allies in the face of growing antagonism in the U.S. and Western Europe toward its occupation of land Palestinians claim for a state. Evangelicals see things differently, and according to the Israeli Tourism Ministry are flying in in even greater numbers this year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war, when Israel captured Jerusalem’s Old City and West Bank biblical sites.

In a 2014 Pew Research Center poll, 82 percent of white evangelicals in the U.S. said they believe Israel was given by God to the Jewish people, versus 40 percent of Jews. Almost 60 percent of evangelicals, according to a 2015 Bloomberg poll, said they would back Israel regardless of U.S. interests.

Economic Boon

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is the heavyweight champ in raising money from evangelicals. His International Fellowship of Christians and Jews collected $132 million in 2015 — the last year for which records were publicly available — much of it going to the poor in Israel and other Jewish communities, according to Internal Revenue Service records.

“I demonstrated that there was this group out there that is growing in numbers and influence and that it’s important for the Jewish community to reach out to them, and that it could be done with integrity by a Jewish rabbi,” Eckstein said.

Organizations such as Hagee’s CUFI have modeled their approach on AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby known for its mastery of Washington politics, according to David Brog, a former CUFI chief executive now leading billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s campaign against Israel boycott efforts on college campuses.

“Almost every politician in America gets that if you want to appeal to evangelical Christians, you talk about traditional values, about being ‘pro-life’ and also about your support for Israel,” said Brog, a cousin of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. “Even a guy like Donald Trump who didn’t share the values of the religious Christian community was able to talk about Israel in a way that really galvanized people.”

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