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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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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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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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It's not always about survival, this life we are given it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal life force that is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
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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'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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Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
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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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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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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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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.
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Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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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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If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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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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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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