Quotes from Elizabeth Lesser

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

First we love within, then we love the world.

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

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

I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

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.

See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.

Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

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.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

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.

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.