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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.

Elizabeth Lesser

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Many women hear the word feminine and feel like it's a noose around their neck. Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act, kind of thing.
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I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.
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Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
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If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
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I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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