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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

Elizabeth Lesser

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Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
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If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
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Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.
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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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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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See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
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If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
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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 have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
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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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We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
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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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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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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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