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Elizabeth Lesser is the co-founder and senior adviser of Omega Institute, the largest adult education center in the United States focusing on health, wellness, spirituality and creativity. She is the author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow and A Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure.

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When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.

Giving, Heart, Inspiration, Keep, Told

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.

Fraught, Gender, Men, Moving, Thinking, Women

The part of me that is both a spiritual seeker and a social activist meet in this understanding of enlightened power coming from a deep, genuine well within each person.

Enlightened, Person, Power, Seeker, Spiritual, Understanding

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.

Exactly, Helping, Self, Way, Women

May you listen to the voice within the beat even when you are tired. When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. May every experience in life be a door that opens your heart, expands your understanding and leads you to freedom.

Door, Doors, Experience, Heart, Tired

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

Blossom, Difficult, Ironic, Might, Ruins

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

Break, Breaking, Breaking Down, Down, May, Open

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

Around The World, Interested, Protection, Sisters, Women, World

To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

Genuine, May, Say, Spiritual

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.

Assuming, Change, Leadership, Needs, People, Power

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

Christian, Enjoy, Reality, Spiritual, Time, Universal

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.

Become, Cousin, Days, Dying, Mountain, Realized

If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.

Choices, Doe, Humanity, Individual, Species

The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

Change, Life, Like, Loneliness, Long, Make

If you're interested in opening the doors to the heavens, start with the door to your own secret self. See what happens when you offer to another a glimpse of who you truly are. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.

Doors, Down, Heart, Self, Whomever

Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that at all, but as usual with us human beings, we've overdone it. We are self-medicating ourselves away from the great awakening moments, and losing our coping skills and losing wake-up calls.

Awakening, Coping, Medication, People, Self, Skills

I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.

Empowered, Feminism, General, Men, Thinking, Value

It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.

Agility, Aging, Body, Spirirt, Trade

No one has the answer; only you know the way home.

Answer, Answers, Home, Way

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

Away, Life, Moments, Precious, Stealing, Thieves

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