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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.

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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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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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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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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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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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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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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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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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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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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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 like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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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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Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
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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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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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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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If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
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