Quote

I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

Elizabeth Lesser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Lesser
Controls
Humor
Faith
Spirit
Else
Give
Giving
Something

More quotes by Elizabeth Lesser

Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
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
Image
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.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
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
Image
What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
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
Image
What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
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.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
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.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.
Elizabeth Lesser
Image
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.
Elizabeth Lesser