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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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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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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We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
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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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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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I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.
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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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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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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 don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.
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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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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 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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