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

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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 think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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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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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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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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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 think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, Oh, I am not immortal!.
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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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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
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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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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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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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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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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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Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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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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We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.
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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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Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.
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