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Stillness is training for action.

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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
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In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.
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When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.
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We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.
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Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.
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Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.
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In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
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I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias
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When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
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I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher and deeper motive for living, is going to be driven to fight the good fight in one way or another... And in order to fight the good fight, we have to engage, we have to get into the ring, not just stand outside it and be philosophers.
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What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.
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When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.
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We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.
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Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
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There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.
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Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
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One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
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Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
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