Broken Open Quotes

“Frankl said that he wrote the book “to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“logotherapy,” which, in a nutshell, is about searching for the meaning packed in one’s baggage, something”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“We are in search of our most authentic, vital, generous, and wise self.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“What is keeping you from feeling the rapture? I can assure you, you won’t find the answer in a lighted room. What stands between you and a full-bodied life can be found only in the shadows.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“Strange Angels, we will become more and more numb to life. We will remain unchanged. If we allow the Angels entry, we will open the door to change and evolution.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“The Sleeping Giants and Strange Angels may bring with them risky advice. If you listen, your life may change; you will certainly change. If you turn a deaf ear, you’ll stay the same. It’s up to you. Giants”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“What is the soul?” a man in the audience asked. “The soul,” I said, “was the one who just answered the question ‘Why are you really here?’ It is the wise and whole and brave part of the self. The soul is the ageless longing for truth that sends scientists into the lab and seekers onto the spiritual path.” And”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“They are I-don’t-know-it-alls. They are not afraid to look dumb or make mistakes. Because of that, they go places others won’t and try things others don’t. That is where the new discoveries are lurking. “So,”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“fearlessness is the product of tenderness.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“For the warrior,” says Trungpa, “the experience of sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“Discovering fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart. I”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“That is the first tip of fearlessness, and the first sign of real warriorship.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“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. At”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“He was training people to become “sacred warriors”—not so that they could do battle with others but so that they could develop the kind of courage one needs to be kind and happy and radically alive in the midst of the world.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“But there was something out of control about him, something that scared me. At that point in my young life, I was looking for an anchor.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“bones and muscles, organs and skin, I want to take care of the gift of my body. I want to feed it well, move it gracefully, and rest it deeply. I know that the life force beats on, even when the heart has stopped, but while I have a heart and lungs, I want to treat them with sacred awe. And while I dwell with others who are just like me, I want to see them for who they really are, in all of their fragility and all of their majesty.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“He went on to tell me that before the workshop he hadn’t cried for years, even when his father died, even when his wife told him she was leaving. “I am so glad to finally feel something.” He sighed, touching his heart. “Even if I have to cry every day for a couple of years, it’s better than having a frozen heart.” Ever”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“How can it be when we’re all safeguarding the very same story? That’s why Rumi calls it an Open Secret.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“Rumi speaks of the Open Secret. He says that each one of us is trying to hide a secret—not a big bad secret, but a more subtle and pervasive one.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“There is meaning hidden in the small changes of everyday life, and wisdom to be found in the shards of your most broken moments.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“it is the internal transformation that matters most. If there is one thing that has made a difference in my life, it is the courage to turn and face what wants to change within me.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“While Once-Born people avoid or deny or bitterly accept the unpredictable changes of real life, Twice-Born people use adversity for awakening.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“Twice-Born people use the difficult changes in their outer lives to make the harder changes within.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“A Twice-Born person pays attention when the soul pokes its head through the clouds of a half-lived life. Whether through choice or calamity, the Twice-Born person goes into the woods, loses the straight way, makes mistakes, suffers loss, and confronts that which needs to change within himself in order to live a more genuine and radiant life. But”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“Is this all there is to life? Will I always feel the same? Do I not have some purpose to fulfill, some greater kindness to give, some inner freedom to taste?”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“ashes to wings”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“We can try to quiet the noise in our minds, listen for deeper instructions, and leap without fear beyond what we think is so. In”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“He freed the song of your soul.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“Now he was emerging, like a phoenix from the ashes, with new wings and an open heart. I”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“Some of us don’t. Some of us add up all of the smaller changes into one big lesson, and find our way home as well. A”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow