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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

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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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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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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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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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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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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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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'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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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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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
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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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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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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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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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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
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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