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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.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
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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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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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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 me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.
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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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If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, Oh, I am not immortal!.
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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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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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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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I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser