Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

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.

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

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

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

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.

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.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

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

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.

I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.

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

Anyone whose lifestyle may frighten you or whose point of view makes smoke come out of your ears.

The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

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.

Talking to each other instead of talking about each other is not some kind of nicey-nice (ph) idea. It's the difference between societies falling apart and societies getting something wonderful done.

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

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.

I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.

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

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

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

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

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.

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.

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

What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.

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.

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

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

I think it's better that people actually are saying what they feel. Especially, people are saying, I'm not heard. I don't have a voice in America.

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

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.

We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.

If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.