...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain. Elizabeth Lesser More Quotes by Elizabeth Lesser More Quotes From Elizabeth Lesser I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down. Elizabeth Lesser ipodspeoplethinking 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. Elizabeth Lesser choiceshumanitydoe It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone. Elizabeth Lesser momentsteaching It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism. Elizabeth Lesser physicslawwind We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot. Elizabeth Lesser meltingablewant I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming. Elizabeth Lesser brotherbelievethinking
