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

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
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Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
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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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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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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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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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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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When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.
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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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I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
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I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
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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'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.
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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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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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I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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