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Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
HOW STRANGE THAT THE NATURE OF LIFE IS CHANGE, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
Here is the Book of thy Descent, Here begins the Book of the Holy Grail, Here begin the terrors, Here begin the miracles. —THE GRAIL LEGEND
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive… so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
There is no dry land, he said; there is only fearlessness, which is to be found in the heart. This is the path to freedom.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
In their most broken moments they were brought to their knees; they were humbled; they were opened.
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another.
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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. —LEWIS THOMAS
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
I told them that the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki instructed his students to approach every meditation session—even if they had been practicing for twenty-five years—with Beginner’s Mind. He said that “in the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind, there are few.”
from Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser