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

Elizabeth Lesser

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I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
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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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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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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 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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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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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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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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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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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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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
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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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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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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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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?
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