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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.

Elizabeth Lesser

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I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, Oh, I am not immortal!.
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Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.
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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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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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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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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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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
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Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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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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Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
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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 believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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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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First we love within, then we love the world.
Elizabeth Lesser