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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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I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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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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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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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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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 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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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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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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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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
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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 actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
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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's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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