121 Quotes by Elizabeth Lesser

Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.

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

We are able to choose what we want – you don’t have to accept one thing from one tradition. It’s a melting pot.

Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue – like cancer – even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.

Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that’s scary – that’s scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.

In their most broken moments they were brought to their knees; they were humbled; they were opened.

I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in childhood, to have been given the “gift” of not belonging.

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.

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.