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

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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I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms woman/man begin to lose meaning.
Elizabeth Lesser
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If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
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If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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But when I learned about the dangers of rejection or attack, I thought, it's time to change this. What if we faced any pain we had caused each other and, instead of rejection or attack, could we listen? Could we forgive? Could we merge?
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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.
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Every day we have the opportunity to make our relationships be on the outside what they really are on a spiritual level.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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
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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 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
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Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were.
Elizabeth Lesser
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If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
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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