Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
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One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.
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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 life force that…
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Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced…
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When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the…
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that spirituality is fearlessness. It is…
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I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that…
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult…
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans—I release my hold on all of it. I leave…
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If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather,…
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A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an…
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Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once,…
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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 break open instead.…
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
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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 from chrysalis to…
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Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don't persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.
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