Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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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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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
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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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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
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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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Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.
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Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.
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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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Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.
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Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.
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We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
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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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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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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.
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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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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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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It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.