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““O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart. A””

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“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that…

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“logotherapy,” which, in a nutshell, is about searching for the meaning packed in one’s baggage, something”

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“He was training people to become “sacred warriors”—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop the kind…

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“Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we’ve been given, the door will open.”

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If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the…

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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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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.

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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world…

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

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When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain,…

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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis…

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