Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regime or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart. Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life--to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don't go our away, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.
Elizabeth LesserTag: inspirational
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.
Elizabeth LesserHow quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.
Elizabeth LesserWhat will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.
Elizabeth LesserMeditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, 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 LesserTag: meditation
It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
Elizabeth LesserTag: inspirational
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.
Elizabeth LesserTag: life change transition enlightening
To banish the Hideous Damsel's darkness is to sterilize one's chance at the evolution she brings.
Elizabeth LesserThe greatest stories ever told trace a path through the charred and exalted landscape of romantic love.
Elizabeth LesserTag: love
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