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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.

Elizabeth Lesser

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Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.
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First we love within, then we love the world.
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See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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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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