Top 100 Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
#1. One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.
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#2. What wants to live in you may be waiting ... at the end of a long loneliness.
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#3. I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
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#4. The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want.
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#5. I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.
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#6. The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power
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#7. 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, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.
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#8. To banish the Hideous Damsel's darkness is to sterilize one's chance at the evolution she brings.
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#9. What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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#10. Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.
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#11. I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.
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#13. What feels like such a painful loss now will become something beautiful later on. You cannot escape your destiny. You can certainly try. People do so every day. They hold on tight, and the river just dries up.
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#14. We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
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#15. I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.
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#16. If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
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#17. Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.
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#18. Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.
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#19. The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. - RICHIE HAVENS
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#21. 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 behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment,
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#22. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.
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#23. We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.
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#24. Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.
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#25. I'm very much a family person, and that's always my first priority.
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#26. I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and sometimes mean-spirited.
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#27. Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
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#28. See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
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#29. Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.
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#30. There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always consuming, creating, building. There's something inside of us that wants desperately to stop and experience and just be
not just always do.
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#31. Every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are.
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#32. Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.
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#33. I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
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#34. I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.
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#35. I think diversity of thinking and healing traditions from around the world are good for us. The movement itself has evolved enormously and it's been a thrill to be part of it.
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#36. I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
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#37. Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
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#38. I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.
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#39. Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.
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#40. I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
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#41. It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
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#42. If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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#43. How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.
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#44. 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 times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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#45. But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
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#46. I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
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#47. I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".
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#48. Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
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#49. 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 if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
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#50. His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job
your sacred contract
to free him, and to free yourself.
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#51. People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive ... so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. - JOSEPH CAMPBELL
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#52. We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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#53. We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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#54. I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.
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#55. If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
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#56. If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.
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#57. To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another.
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#58. It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.
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#59. First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
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#60. I didn't want to become anything other than my most vibrant, peaceful, and grateful self.
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#61. Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
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#62. Only people who claim their own voice can hear the true song of another.
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#63. It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.
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#64. Recognition of the harm that patriarchy has caused to people and the planet does not mean that men are wrong and women are right; rather it is a call for new organizational forms and for relishing gender differences within a context of equality.
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#65. It is our birthright to uncover the soul - to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.
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#66. We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
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#67. The greatest stories ever told trace a path through the charred and exalted landscape of romantic love.
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#68. Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the moods and messages of the heart the same respect that you give the thoughts and ideas of the mind.
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#69. Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.
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#70. To me the purpose of life is to enjoy it! It's to enjoy the gift, and to make sure that other people have an opportunity to enjoy the gift.
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#71. Approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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#72. 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 unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.
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#73. I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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#74. To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.
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#75. If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
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#76. I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.
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#77. Some people, who are deeply involved in an organized, traditional religion, find it very difficult to accept that their way isn't the only way. And that their sacred text isn't the only text and it must be taken literally.
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#78. I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.
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#79. I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.
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#80. 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 is flowing within us-letting that force lead the way through all of the inevitable changes we will face across the span of our time here on Earth.
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#81. In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.
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#82. It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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#83. I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.
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#84. Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough.
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#85. If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.
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#86. God is most high. To choose God, his light, his way his truth (all Christ), means everything flows from the highest point. To choose something lesser is to compel your life to flow from a lesser rise - a hill, rather than a mountain.
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#87. What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.
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#88. 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 a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.
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#89. Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.
Elizabeth Hay
#90. The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
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#91. Rumi says: Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing There is a field. I'll meet you there.
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#92. Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.
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#93. The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.
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#94. Spirituality is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.
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#95. We're all bozos on the bus, so we might as well sit back and enjoy the ride. - WAVY GRAVY
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#96. The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.
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#97. 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, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.
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#98. Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.
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#99. I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in childhood, to have been given the "gift" of not belonging.
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#100. Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.
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