"With awe and wonder you look around, recognizing the preciousness of the earth, the sanctity of every human being on the planet, the ultimate unity and interdependence of all beings - somos todos un pais. Love swells in your chest and shoots out of your heart chakra, linking you to everyone/everything. ... You share a category of identity wider than any social position or racial label. This conocimiento motivates you to work actively to see that no harm comes to people, animals, ocean - to take up spiritual activism and

the work of healing.  --Gloria E. Anzaldua, _now let us shift ... the path of conocimiento ... inner work, public acts_ (2008)