Elizabeth Lesser

“ashes to wings”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

“fearlessness is the product of tenderness.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

First we love within, then we love the world.

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

We'll never change everyone's minds. We're not supposed to.

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.

— Elizabeth Lesser

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

“where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.”

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming…

— 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

If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Some people realize that what must burn in the fire is their fear—fear of their own power, fear of change, fear of…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Rumi speaks of the Open Secret. He says that each one of us is trying to hide a secret—not a big bad…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men…

— Elizabeth Lesser

One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!"…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regime…

— Elizabeth Lesser

My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as,…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Face your embarrassment at being human, and you’ll uncover a deep well of passion and compassion. It’s a great power, your Open…

— Elizabeth Lesser

There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era,…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— 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

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

“He freed the song of your soul.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser