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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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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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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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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First we love within, then we love the world.
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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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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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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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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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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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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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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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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