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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

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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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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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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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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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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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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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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 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 you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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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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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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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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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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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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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 love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.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 think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
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