Top 120 Elizabeth Lesser Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 2 of 3

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

52. “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 abundant well of spiritual longing.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

54. “First we love within, then we love the world.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

55. “Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart’s armor through which our true colors can shine.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

56. “The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. – RICHIE HAVENS.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

57. “No one has the answer; only you know the way home.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

58. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

59. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

60. “Marion Woodman – the great Jungian analyst and author – says that we come to the mythic Crossroads during “moments in our lives where the unconscious crosses consciousness; where the eternal crosses the transitory; where a higher will demands the surrender of our egos.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

61. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

62. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

63. “When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self – the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

64. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

65. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

66. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

68. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

69. “That is what happens when you put your soul in charge of your life. You dare to claim the sky. That sky is different for everyone. For one person, maybe the sky is having a baby, being a parent, growing a family. But for another it’s never having kids; it’s traveling the globe; it’s saving the world... You know your sky. And if you don’t, it’s because you haven’t listened closely enough.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

70. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

71. “Discovering fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart. I.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

72. “We are able to choose what we want – you don’t have to accept one thing from one tradition. It’s a melting pot.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

73. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

74. “I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself – if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down – I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

75. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

76. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

77. “Ego is more interested in proclaiming its existence than in basking in the limitless energy of real spirituality. I entreat you to not cheat yourself on the spiritual path. There is no one to impress, nothing to “get”, nowhere to rush to, nothing to miss on. The truth is always there, plain and simple, hiding somewhere near you.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

78. “Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we’ve been given, the door will open.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

79. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

80. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

81. “Some people realize that what must burn in the fire is their fear – fear of their own power, fear of change, fear of loss, fear of others. Some people name an inability to feel, a crippling cynicism, a sense of shame, a stance of anger. I.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

82. “We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

84. “Prayer is allowing ourselves to be thirsty; it is a longing for something we just cannot seem to find. The Sufis say that our longing for God is God’s longing for us. In this way, prayer is like a conversation between friends separated across time and space.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

85. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

86. “While Once-Born people avoid or deny or bitterly accept the unpredictable changes of real life, Twice-Born people use adversity for awakening.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

87. “It is our birthright to uncover the soul – to remove the layers of fear or shame or apathy or cynicism that conceal it.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

88. “No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. – ALBERT EINSTEIN.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

89. “Being true to that self involves sifting through the layers of bad advice and unreasonable expectations of others. It requires seeing through your own delusions of grandeur or your fear of failure or your impostor syndrome or your conviction that there is something uniquely and obviously screwed up about your particular self.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

90. “It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

91. “Your lesson in this lifetime is to find and trust your own precious voice.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

92. “Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

93. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

94. “In their most broken moments they were brought to their knees; they were humbled; they were opened.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

95. “There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

96. “There are three major hurdles to overcome in crisis: dealing with pain; working with your attitude; and using the crisis as a wake-up and a cleanup call.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

97. “Full-hearted fatherhood might save the world.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

98. “Everything gets sorted out in the Great Silence.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

99. “Don’t keep searching for the truth; Just let go of your opinions.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

100. “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.”

— Elizabeth Lesser