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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

Elizabeth Lesser

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Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.
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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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But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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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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Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.
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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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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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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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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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I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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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 actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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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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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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Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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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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