Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.
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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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One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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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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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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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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Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.
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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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It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
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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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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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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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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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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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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 know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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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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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?