Elizabeth Lesser Quotes - Page 5

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• It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Acceptance, Choose Life, Acceptance Of Death

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.95, Random House

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• The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Needs, World

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• One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Christian, Spiritual, Reality

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• I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously and it's been a thrill to be part of it.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Healing, Thinking, Diversity

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• Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Necks, Kind

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• I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Needs, Revolution

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• The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Spiritual, Understanding, Enlightened

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• I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Men, Thinking, Conscious

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• The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Real, Giving, Empowering

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• I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Book, Years, Voice

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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.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Emotional, Knowing, Scary

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• I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is kind of like a strong mother. Like when your mom says like, "put that down!" you know that is coming from a place of both love and strength. And at this critical stage in human history we need both action and caring.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Beautiful, Quality, Together

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• Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Cancer, Heart, Commitment

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• Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Self, Skills, People

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• I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sleep, Forever, Want

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• I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Crazy, Meditation, Listening

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• I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Moving, Demise, Body

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• I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Nice, Thinking, Giving

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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.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Giving, Spirit, I Can

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• Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Wise, Mean, People

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

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• Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mean, Men, Differences

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Grief, Healing, Heart

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• I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Responsibility, Self, Order

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