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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.

Elizabeth Lesser

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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
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We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.
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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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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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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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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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Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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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 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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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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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What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
Elizabeth Lesser
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First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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 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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I believe that educating people to awaken into full consciousness is the most important thing we can do.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I'm very committed to my family and my town. My biggest local commitment are my children, my husband, my home and my grandchildren.
Elizabeth Lesser
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We need to claim our power for something beautiful, something harmonious and something globally healthy.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.
Elizabeth Lesser