Broken Open
How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
The co-founder of the Omega Institute on how loss, illness and other hard times can open a person up rather than break them.
Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of the Omega Institute, writes about how a crisis can become a turning point. Drawing on her own life and the lives of people she has taught and counseled, she looks at death, illness and divorce as well as the everyday strains of relationships, parenting and work. Alongside the stories come lines from poets and philosophers and a set of practical tools, including meditation and psychological inquiry, for growing through painful change.
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Isabel Allende
Many years after my daughter's premature death, Lesser's spiritual memoir was a balm to my lingering sorrow. Broken down or broken open by pain? Bitterness or compassion? Self-pity or wisdom? These are choices we all have to make sooner or later.
Article · January 2014
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