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"In our weeks of talk, movies and friendship, I watched as Wilma turned a medical ordeal into one more event in her life, but not its definition. I believe she was teaching me an intimate form of The Way. In her words: "Every day is a good day - because we are part of everything alive."
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"Stolen moments create a feeling of enjoyment in our "intensive time awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. ['Stolen moments']"

"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."

"I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life."

"Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear."

"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."

"The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath."

"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."

"Be control of your mind."

"You cannot be who you are not. Simply rest, sit still and unknot. You may even try to emulate and inspire,But it's the inner self that you'll transpire."

"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."

"I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer."

"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

"For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind, in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive."

"Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!"

"Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice."
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