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

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" Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego. "

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" Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. "

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" Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life. "

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" Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die. "

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" The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true answer lies on a level of consciousness that's beyond our mortal thinking. Quite simply, when it comes to Israel and the Palestinians, we need a miracle. "

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" By my mid-20s, I was a total mess. "

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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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" As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life. "

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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 present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now. "

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" I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call. "

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" When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. "

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" I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children. "

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

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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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" Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety. "

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" Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both. "

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" War is just an effect, not a cause. "

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" Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it. "

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

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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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" The holidays are only holy if we make them so. "

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" The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. "

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" Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. "

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" Joy, has no cost. "

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" Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. "

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" In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame. "

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" Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. "

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" Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality. "

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" Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth. "

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