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"The Holomovement is my husband's dream, Emanuel Cilman. He was my first mentor, and I met him a long time ago on a bus on the way to the pyramids of Teotihuacan. He started talking to me about quantum physics, which I knew nothing about. I was kind of in a desperate state trying to figure out my life, and all of a sudden, hearing about Bell's theorem, I just went, wow, that's incredible. I felt this extraordinary connection with the universe."

"My dear beautiful friend Laura Pena tells the girls that we work with, if you want to find your purpose, find what makes you cry. I think that's true. When I was 26, I woke up and I cried. I cried because I thought I was so old, so over the hill, and I thought by then I was going to know exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I cried because I had no idea."

This article explores the experimental work of Michael Murphy, co-founder of the Esalen Institute, and George Leonard, on the Esalen Board on their ITP experiment in methods of achieving 'extraordinary' practice. Social Analysis Volume 52,

"More than anything is my morning practice. I was introduced to something very beautiful that was created by Michael Murphy. It is called integral transformative practice. It is a beautiful practice that I started doing many years ago. It involves motion, there is a lot of aikido and water wheel motions, and beautiful physical expressions. It involves affirmation, it involves meditation, and I have adapted it to my own practice."

"One of the projects that we support with Purpose Earth is called Cazala Weaving. It's bringing together Bedouin Muslim women with Israeli women, and they are creating these extraordinarily beautiful textiles. They're working in community, even with the most recent horrific, devastating debacle in the Middle East. They are joined heart to heart, hip to hip, elbow to elbow. They're encouraging their community to lay down their differences and their anger."

"It's been about 170,000 people from 85 countries around the world, and I have had the privilege of meeting so many magical, passionate young people. Traveling opens people to their purpose, to their calling. Moving out of your comfort zone is the number one thing that every one of us can do to have a deeper connection with the world around us, because we have so many more likenesses than differences."

"I started praying when I took up yoga, and yoga was the path that led me to many very deep spiritual experiences. I always found that it was toward the end of my yoga session, and I have always done it on my own. I go deep. The deeper I stretch and the deeper I find that I'm going into a state of meditation, the more I become open to what I would call the messages of the universe that are being shared with me."

"I started praying. I started praying when I took up yoga, and yoga was the path that led me to many very deep spiritual experiences. The day that I was 26, I did my yoga practice, most mornings I do, and I put out a prayer. It's almost like talking with my higher self. It's sort of like knowing that the highest part of me is connected with the highest part of everything, and that the only thing that impedes our being able to connect with the messages of the universe is our own voice that never shuts down in our minds until we quiet it. I put out, please guide me, show me, show me a sign, bring me somebody in my life that will make a difference."

"I started working in cultural exchange, and that was magic for me. I suddenly realized that all my focus on me was changing to the we, to the collective we. I started working with international students from all over the world, and that was such an extraordinary experience because I was facilitating their experiences. When I turned 26, I cried because I thought I was so old, so over the hill, and I thought by then I was going to know exactly what I wanted to do with my life. That's when I actually put out a prayer to the universe, and I discovered cultural exchange shortly after that. Suddenly I found myself in this industry that I thought, this is beautiful. I'm bringing people together, I lost my sense of worrying about self, and suddenly I was much more concerned about others. It was hugely impactful."

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"What has brought me the most joy through all of my work with Purpose Earth, with Greenheart, cultural exchange, and now with the Holomovement is action. Theoretically, it's great to hear about what our potential is, but it's not until we actually set those thoughts, those intentions into action that we really recognize what can truly happen, what can take place. It's so much fun, it's so much fun to just push up your sleeves and recognize that we're part of a huge community of people that all want to take action."

"When I was about 10 years old, I had a dream that I lived in this beautiful cottage, this incredibly beautiful cottage. It had a fireplace, it had some half timbering, and it was set in a beautiful forest. One day, this knock came on the door. It was this boom, boom, boom. I was trembling in the dream, and I went to open the door, and there was a spirit being there, and the spirit invited me to join it on this sort of magic carpet, this invisible magic carpet, and I knew that I had to go. I got behind it and put my arms around him, and we took off. We looked down, and the house became smaller and smaller. Then the landscape began to change, and I realized that I was over devastation, probably World War II Germany, and I began to cry. The spirit being said to me, you will have a choice in your life, to stay in your beautiful cottage or to go out into the world and make a difference. When I turned 26, that was one of the moments where I had that recollection of saying, I'm focusing too much on me."