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

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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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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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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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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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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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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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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.
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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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To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.
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Many women hear the word feminine and feel like it's a noose around their neck. Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act, kind of thing.
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If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.
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To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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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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