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" Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it. "

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" We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed. "

" The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole. "

" I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects. "

" For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe. "

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" It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth. "

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" I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal. "

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" What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me. "

" I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate. "

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" Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. "

" I am always interested in that relationship between outer reality and inner desire, and I think it is important to pay attention to the inner voice because it is the only way to discover your mission in life and the only way to develop the strength to break with whatever familial or cultural norms are preventing you from fulfilling your destiny. "

" I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change. "

" I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding. "

" If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are. "

" Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well. "

" Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge. "

" As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society. "

" Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development. "

" To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. "

" When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same. "

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" We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally. "

" The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves. "

" The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside. "

" The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals. "

" There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. "

" Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. "

" In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings. "

" What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need. "

" To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred? "

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