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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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 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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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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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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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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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 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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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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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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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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Many women hear the word feminine and feel like it's a noose around their neck. Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act, kind of thing.
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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 believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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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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