Notes on ‘I Am That’

I remember reading ‘I Am That’ by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and making notes on it a few years ago. I recently rediscovered these notes and found them to be extremely profound. Especially with the whole “being in the world but not of it” narrative that I think is imperative for BW to internalise if they are to succeed in this world, I have decided to share my notes. Such philosophy is often repackaged by White men who go on to sell millions of books but it’s so much more powerful from the source.

 

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What will Black Women Get from Being Moral in an Immoral World?

I recently re-read All About Love by Bell Hooks which is an insightful book where she offers the readers, radical new ways to think about love. Many aspects of the book were insightful to me (I suggest you read it if you haven’t already!) but there’s one chapter early on in the book that caught my attention where she talks about honesty and somewhat criticises the aspect of patriarchal femininity that sees women’s deception as acceptable and as always, a range of things came into my mind.

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