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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.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.
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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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If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
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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.
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But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?
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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 you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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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 would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.
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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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