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

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We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.
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Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.
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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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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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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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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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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.
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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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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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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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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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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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