Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.
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I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
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Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.
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If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.
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Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.
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There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.
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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.
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As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.