Elizabeth Lesser Quotes - Page 2

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• The person who takes the first step in a conflict toward the other, those are brave people.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  People, Brave, Firsts

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• We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Weather, Use, Landscape

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• The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Rivers, Soul, Energy

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• No one has the answer; only you know the way home.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Home, Answers, Way

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.42, Ballantine Books

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• How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Strange, Life Is, Humans

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.17, Random House

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• My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Believe, Creativity, Biblical

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fighting, Hard Times, Opportunity

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• Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.

  Elizabeth Lesser

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• Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Grief, Wells

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• If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Song, Strong, Women

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Opportunity, People, Purpose

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• If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Happiness, Peace, Secret

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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.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sibling, Rejection, Trying

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• To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, May, Genuine

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Earth, Way, Spirituality

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• When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Mind, Quiet

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Long, Broken

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• When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

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• Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, School, Graduates

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.384, Ballantine Books

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• I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Beautiful, Thinking, Touching

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Ideas, Giving

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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.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  New Year, Holiday, Light

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• Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, 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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  Basketball, Art, Athlete

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.115, Ballantine Books

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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.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Land, Creative, Mountain

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.364, Ballantine Books

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• To be human is to be lost in the woods.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Woods, Lost, Lost In The Woods

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.19, Random House

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