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First we love within, then we love the world.

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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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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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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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Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
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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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Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.
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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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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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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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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'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a new initiative, and it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the tendency to otherize.
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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.
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Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.
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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 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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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 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 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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