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The core message of this book is, in a word, independence. This is important for antiwar activists and others who serve the cause of world peace, because too often we become trapped by the same kind of groupthink as the militant neocon right. This book offers insights on mindfulness that will allow you to formulate your own personal "declaration of independence." For if we are to learn a single thing from the experience of philosophers, seers, and poets of ages gone by, it is that the clearest path to the universal is through the individual. This was the message imparted to us by people as culturally and biographically diverse as Lao Tzu, Sappho, Pythagoras, Galileo, the Buddha, Socrates, Da Vinci, Basho, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Martin Luther King, Rumi, Wordsworth, Rilke, and Gandhi.