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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.

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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.
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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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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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As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
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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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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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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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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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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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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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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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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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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser