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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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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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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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
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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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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding and leads you to freedom.
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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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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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First we love within, then we love the world.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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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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Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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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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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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