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Grief is an expression that you loved well.

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

It is our birthright to uncover the soul - to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.

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.

Only people who claim their own voice can hear the true song of another.

The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want.

I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.

If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

To banish the Hideous Damsel's darkness is to sterilize one's chance at the evolution she brings.

Rumi says: Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing There is a field. I'll meet you there.

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

We're all bozos on the bus, so we might as well sit back and enjoy the ride. - WAVY GRAVY

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another.

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

Grief is good ... it is a sign of how well we have loved.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.

Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. - RICHIE HAVENS

Your lesson in this lifetime is to find and trust your own precious voice.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

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.

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

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.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

Approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

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.

We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.

We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.

It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

What wants to live in you may be waiting ... at the end of a long loneliness.

The greatest stories ever told trace a path through the charred and exalted landscape of romantic love.

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

First we love within, then we love the world.

I didn't want to become anything other than my most vibrant, peaceful, and grateful self.

Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

Every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are.

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

No one has the answer; only you know the way home.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.

Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.