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

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" Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing. "

" 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. "

" I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective. "

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

" To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. "

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

" 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. "

" We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter. "

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

" What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.' "

" 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. "

" I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food. "

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

" 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. "

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

" As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught. "

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

" 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 like vibrant colors. "