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

Elizabeth Lesser

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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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First we love within, then we love the world.
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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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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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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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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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It's not always about survival, this life we are given it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
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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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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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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
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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 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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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 actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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