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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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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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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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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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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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I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.
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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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Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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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 think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
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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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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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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.
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One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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