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First we love within, then we love the world.

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Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
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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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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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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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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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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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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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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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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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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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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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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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The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.
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Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.
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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 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 the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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