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I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

Elizabeth Lesser

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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!.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
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.
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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
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There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Life is like a school one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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 love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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
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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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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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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I actually don't think we're more divided than we were. I think it's more evident. It's more evident because of the internet.
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.
Elizabeth Lesser