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First we love within, then we love the world.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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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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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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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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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 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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We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.
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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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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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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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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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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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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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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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