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I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

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I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.

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The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.

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The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.

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One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

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We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.

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Spirit is impervious to illness.

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As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

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Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.

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We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

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Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

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We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

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If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

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I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

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We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not.

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I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.

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I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence - has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

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An educated child earns more later in life, knows how to keep their own children from dying, produces more food, is less likely to get AIDS, and in the case of boys, is less likely to engage in armed civil conflict.

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The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

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If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.

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Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

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Trust is very hard if you don't know what you're trusting.

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Spiritual 'exercise' keeps your mind in shape the way physical exercise keeps your body in shape.

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The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.

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In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.

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Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.

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The 'Course in Miracles' says one day you will realize that death is not the punishment but the reward. And it says that birth is not the beginning of life but a continuation. And physical death is not the end of life but a continuation.

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Children are not children. They are just younger people.

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In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.

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All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

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Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

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Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

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