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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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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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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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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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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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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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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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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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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.
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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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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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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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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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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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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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