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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Food can change anything.

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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.

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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Author

Born: September 30th, 1950

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