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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

Elizabeth Lesser

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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
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We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
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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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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
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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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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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I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.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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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.
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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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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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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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When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.
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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 would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser