Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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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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I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.
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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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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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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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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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One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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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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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?
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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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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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I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
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Anyone whose lifestyle may frighten you or whose point of view makes smoke come out of your ears.
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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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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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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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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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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.