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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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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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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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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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First we love within, then we love the world.
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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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Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
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I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
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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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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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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.
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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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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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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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I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.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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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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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 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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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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