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The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

Elizabeth Lesser

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I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.
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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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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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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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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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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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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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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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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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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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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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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.
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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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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'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 don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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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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First we love within, then we love the world.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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