"One does not practice meditation to become a……" — Elizabeth Lesser
"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."
—
Elizabeth Lesser
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
33 Quotes by Elizabeth Lesser
Elizabeth Lesser has 33 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
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.
-
When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.
-
It's not always about survival, this life we are given; it's usually so much easier than that. It's about trusting…
-
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is…
-
When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand,…
-
Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
-
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?... we can confidently say... that…
-
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into…
-
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And…
-
It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
-
What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
-
Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans—I release my hold on…
See all 33 quotes by Elizabeth Lesser »
More Art Quotes
This quote is filed under Art Quotes,
one of 14,657 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
-
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
-
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
-
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
-
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
-
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
— Darren Aronofsky
-
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
-
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
See all 14,657 Art Quotes »