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If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

Elizabeth Lesser

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Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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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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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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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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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 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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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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Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding and leads you to freedom.
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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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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.
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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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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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