A great and quick Q&A with Elizabeth Lesser via
Well Daily, that I would like to have archived here on my space.
- What brings you the most happiness? I take responsibility for my own happiness—no one else can give it to me or take it away from me. I do whatever it takes—meditation, prayer, music, ecstatic ramblings in nature—to remember that I am an eternal soul in a transient body. And I get my puny ego out of the way and love others with all my heart.
- What do you do about stress? I ask problems, “What have you come to teach me?” and then I try to surrender and learn. I TRY. Sometimes I am successful, and sometimes I fall off the horse and lie on the ground kicking and screaming before I get back on. You can always get back on.
- What’s your secret indulgence? A high-end cappuccino machine, grinder and beans, and a ritualized morning routine that I go to bed thinking about!
- What inspired you to become an author? I can’t know what I feel or think if I don’t first write it down. Writing is my path through the woods.
- If you weren’t a writer, what would you be doing? To be a composer would be heavenly. To write music that made people swell with deep emotion and rise with elevated consciousness.
- What was the happiest day of your life? I measure happiness in moments, not days. It comes and goes, like weather. Real happiness is allowing emotions to run freely through the body and mind without attaching to them. Letting grief and sadness have their way, and then welcoming happiness and letting it go too. Greeting whatever comes with “unconditional friendliness” is a recipe for inner peace with flashes of delicious joy.
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