Read her amazing interview with They in Lion's Roar.
TTH quote: “if you have to choose between Buddhism and peace, then you must choose peace.”
“Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don’t have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life.”
"the true teacher is within us."
"Gloria Jean Watkins was born on Sept. 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Ky. to Veodis and Rosa Bell Watkins, the fourth of seven siblings. She attended segregated schools in Christian County, then went on to Stanford University in California, then earned a master’s in English at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She adopted her great-grandmother’s name as her pen name in lower case letters, she told interviewers, in order to emphasize the “substance of books, not who I am.”"
Read more at: https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article256616171.html
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