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" People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't. "

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" Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great. "

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" We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc. "

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" Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it. "

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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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" In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. "

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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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" You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational! "

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" The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love. "

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" Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo. "

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" In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power. "

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" We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves. "

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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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" Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. "

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" Christ is born into the world through each of us. "

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" Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery. "

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" Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one. "

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" When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America. "

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" Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. "

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" If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed. "

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" In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine. "

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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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" 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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" Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind? "

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" When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz. "

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" The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. "

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" It's very scary having something wrong with your head. "

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" In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating. "

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" Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it. "

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" God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours. "

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