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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" To transform yourself is to transform your destiny. "

" Food can change anything. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I like vibrant colors. "

" 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. "

" You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "