Elizabeth Lesser

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

— 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

“Just sing me your song. Teach me the words. Tell me what you know.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

— 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

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

— 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

“If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result—either failure or success…. Trust is knowing that there will…

— 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

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting…

— Elizabeth Lesser

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary,…

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Frankl said that he wrote the book “to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“I am not suggesting that everything bad that happens to us is sent directly by a knowing hand—cooked up specially for our…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo.…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

— Elizabeth Lesser

“He freed the song of your soul.”

— 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

“We can try to quiet the noise in our minds, listen for deeper instructions, and leap without fear beyond what we think…

— Elizabeth Lesser

As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since…

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— 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

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

— Elizabeth Lesser