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

Elizabeth Lesser

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See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.
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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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We must pay attention to the voice that calls us out of the safety zone.
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
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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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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change
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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
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What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
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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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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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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
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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.
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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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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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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
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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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Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.
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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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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
Elizabeth Lesser