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

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If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.
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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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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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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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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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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?
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First we love within, then we love the world.
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Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
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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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I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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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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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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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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