Elizabeth Lesser

“ashes to wings”

— Elizabeth Lesser

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

“To be human is to be lost in the woods.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Everything gets sorted out in the Great Silence.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.

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Anyone whose lifestyle may frighten you or whose point of view makes smoke come out of your ears.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Everyone has a burden to bear, and no one else can carry it for us. It’s our very own chimidunchik.” “That”

— Elizabeth Lesser

“first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

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“Now he was emerging, like a phoenix from the ashes, with new wings and an open heart. I”

— Elizabeth Lesser

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“For the warrior,” says Trungpa, “the experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Joseph Campbell calls the “hero’s path.” Some of us need a cataclysmic event to find our way toward “the center of our…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“I accept now that the point of life is not to reach perfection but to befriend the fact that human beings are…

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May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“The Sleeping Giants and Strange Angels may bring with them risky advice. If you listen, your life may change; you will certainly…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If…

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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…

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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…

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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every…

— Elizabeth Lesser

It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to,…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of…

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“He freed the song of your soul.”

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

First we love within, then we love the world.

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“fearlessness is the product of tenderness.”

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I'm not naive. I know how hard it is to get along.

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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.

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Diversity is good. We need each other's ideas.

— Elizabeth Lesser