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

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Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
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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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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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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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I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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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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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 believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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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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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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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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What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.
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If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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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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