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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Bigger Given Her Hero
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Alive Being Believe Experience
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Another Best Contemporary Contemporary Life
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Bliss Doors Follow Only
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Affair Affairs Because Disappointment
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Another Every Facts Gets
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

God Intellectual Levels Metaphor
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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Able Adventure Big Big Question
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Been Could
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Each Make Marriage Other
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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Experience Faith Have Believe
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Being Lifetime Privilege Who
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Love is a friendship set to music.
Friendship Love Love Is Music
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Again Find Sacred Space
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Computers Gods Like Lots
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Burn Find Inside Joy
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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Blame Doing Fruit Life
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Challenging Come Deeper Find
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Beat Goal Heartbeat Life
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Himself I Think Job Live
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Cannot Choose Cure Joy
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Abyss Down Going Lies
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

About Consciousness Heroic Our
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Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Able Attainment Deny Flatten
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We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

About Achieve Alive Associated
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Power Impunity Abuse Fear
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It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Giving Connect World Divine
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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Memoir Version Perspective Omit
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Story Haunt Writing Themes
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
Mystery Coincidences Emotion Dream
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Ancient times World Patriarchal Catholic
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Feminism Dated Privileged Daughter
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Women Working together Informed Educated
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

World Preserved Quality Enriched
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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Women Two-third Labor Percent
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Real change Feminine Energy Management
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Women Education Work Income
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Fiction Author Chaos Chronological order
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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

Traveled World Amazes Communicate
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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
Uneventful Safe life Prefer Adventurous
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Roots Landscape Country People
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Tend Similarities Differences
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Fact Writer Experience Root
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I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.
Living Mine Chile Belong
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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Conflict War Poverty Women
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Empowering women means trusting them.
Empowering Women Trusting
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Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Today's Girls Tomorrow's Leaders
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
World Better Place Grandchildren
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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity
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