Life Quotes by Elizabeth Lesser

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Twice-Born people use the difficult changes in their outer lives to make the harder changes within.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Is this all there is to life? Will I always feel the same? Do I not have some purpose to fulfill, some…

— Elizabeth Lesser

To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“it is the internal transformation that matters most. If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“What is keeping you from feeling the rapture? I can assure you, you won’t find the answer in a lighted room. What…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Ego is more interested in proclaiming its existence than in basking in the limitless energy of real spirituality. I entreat you to…

— Elizabeth Lesser

When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness…

— Elizabeth Lesser

If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— 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

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

— Elizabeth Lesser

Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.

— Elizabeth Lesser

If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“There is meaning hidden in the small changes of everyday life, and wisdom to be found in the shards of your most…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Strange Angels, we will become more and more numb to life. We will remain unchanged. If we allow the Angels entry, we…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“While Once-Born people avoid or deny or bitterly accept the unpredictable changes of real life, Twice-Born people use adversity for awakening.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are…

— Elizabeth Lesser

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“But there was something out of control about him, something that scared me. At that point in my young life, I was…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“You are living for the deeper truth hidden in the pain of circumstance—your soul’s lessons packed in your chimidunchik.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“The fruit of prayer is the realization that life is an eternal adventure, and that we are explorers, always changing, always learning,…

— Elizabeth Lesser