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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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I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
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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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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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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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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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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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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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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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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.
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We need each other's ideas. Now, I'm not talking about racist ideas or misogynistic ideas or cruel or criminal ideas. I'm talking about most of us who have very varied experiences, needs and ideas. It's really about believing that it's an important part of healing America.
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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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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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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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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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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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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
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