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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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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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We need each other's ideas. Now, I'm not talking about racist ideas or misogynistic ideas or cruel or criminal ideas. I'm talking about most of us who have very varied experiences, needs and ideas. It's really about believing that it's an important part of healing America.
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We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.
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I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.
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I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
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Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.
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Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.
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Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
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First we love within, then we love the world.
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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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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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