When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting the eternal… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing the other. This is why I'm launching a… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“too—I realized that my only hope was to give up the life that had been, in order to make room for the life that… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“logotherapy,” which, in a nutshell, is about searching for the meaning packed in one’s baggage, something” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“He was training people to become “sacred warriors”—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop the kind… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we’ve been given, the door will open.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain,… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
