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First we love within, then we love the world.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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'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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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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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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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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It's not always about survival, this life we are given it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
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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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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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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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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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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 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 me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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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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