In the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute – now the world’s largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth -Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate witness to the ways in which people weather change and transition. In a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical guidance, and personal memoir, she offers tools to help us make the choice we all face in times of challenge: Will we be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Lesser shares tales of ordinary people who have risen from the ashes of illness, divorce, loss of a job or a loved one – stronger, wiser, and more in touch with their purpose and passion. And she draws on the world’s great spiritual and psychological traditions to support us as we too learn to break open and blossom into who we were meant to be.
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- Sales Rank: #2967 in Books
- Published on: 2005-06-14
- Released on: 2005-06-14
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .77″ h x
5.32″ w x
7.94″ l,
.57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Review: Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow User Review – Goodreads. Another must read for difficult times.
Broken Open :: Elizabeth Lesser – Random House
BROKEN OPEN How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow. In the more than thirty years since she co-founded Omega Institute – now the world’s largest center for spiritual
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If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to ussecrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow, by Elizabeth Lesser, is a collection of stories and observations about coming through what Lesser calls a Phoenix
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Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser: Bring out the tissue paper, because Elizabeth Lesser’s Broken Open will help you realize that your tears will only strengthen your
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Broken Open has 1,548 ratings and 259 reviews. Adam said: Oh my God!!! This book changed my life!!! Hell it MAY have saved it. I was homeless in New York
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Review: Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow – Goodreads. Took me forever to read. Lots of sticking points.
- Sales Rank: #2967 in Books
- Published on: 2005-06-14
- Released on: 2005-06-14
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .77″ h x
5.32″ w x
7.94″ l,
.57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
In the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute – now the world’s largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth -Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate witness to the ways in which people weather change and transition. In a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical guidance, and personal memoir, she offers tools to help us make the choice we all face in times of challenge: Will we be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Lesser shares tales of ordinary people who have risen from the ashes of illness, divorce, loss of a job or a loved one – stronger, wiser, and more in touch with their purpose and passion. And she draws on the world’s great spiritual and psychological traditions to support us as we too learn to break open and blossom into who we were meant to be.
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154 of 156 people found the following review helpful.
A Great Read
By Jean Claude Reviera
Don’t let the Publisher’s Weekly review stop you from buying this wonderful book. The idea is not that we MUST embrace our evils in order to grow, but that we can use our times of depression,anxiety, or pain to transform us into more open people. I spotted it in Barnes and Noble the other day, bought it, and haven’t been able to put it down since. Lesser calls this process of transformation “The Phoenix Process.” She beautifully illustrates how difficult times really can help us grow by giving us the story of her first marriage and how the pain she endured during it made her better afterward. She also includes stories of others who have gone through their own struggles in life. Broken Open is well written, and interesting from the first page to the last. The stories in it are truly amazing and inspirational. I reccomend this book to everyone!
95 of 96 people found the following review helpful.
Life’s little survival manual
By Cynthia D. Rice
When I had to place my partner of eighteen years in assisted- living this summer,I felt such sorrow, guilt and despair that I barely functioned in my professional job. I would cry for hours, letting the phone ring when I couldn’t compose myself enough to speak. At only 56, my partner had a massive stroke, followed by two more. By January of this year, she was showing all the signs of dementia. When I knew she could not live with me any more, I was heart-broken and tortured by guilt. A friend invitated me to visit her, and I noticed the title of a book laying on my friend’s bedside table,”Broken Open”. That really described me.I began to read it, and I spent much of my visit finishing it!Suddenly I knew I would eventually move through all this awfulness and out the other side.Lesser’s image of the Phoenix rising from the ashes resonated with me, for ashes was an apt metaphor for my life then.So I began to follow the path Lesser lays out for the reader. She combines the use of emotional and spiritual growth tools that can lead toward healing and growth.I was not able to feel the Phoenix in me when I opened these pages the first time. But after many readings of this gentle and sometimes humorous book, I’m on my way to owning such strength. I read many of the other books Lesser recommends to the reader. I also prayed, meditated, and kept going to therapy. But this book started the whole miraculous passage toward recovery.Elizabeth Lesser, with her poetic and supportive writing, held my hand, week after week. Her words created a virtual hologram that held me when I cried, and patted me softly as I raged.Lesser’s loving mission for this book must have been to help the reader see how she is feeling normal fear and pain that comes with crisis. Lesser acknowledges the unbearable and out-of-control nature of the crisis and loss experience. She helps the reader grow in confidence that she will come through it all, alive and sane… like almost all of us do.I just read her book 3 months ago, and have also now read her book “A Seeker’s Guide”, another excellent, beautifully- written guide to spiritual growth.So I haven’t yet risen from the ashes of my burnt-out self. But Lesser’s book has given me the courage to keep on facing reality, being present with my feelings, and meditating as if my life depended on it. Thanks, Elizabeth.
86 of 87 people found the following review helpful.
Broken Open, Not Broken Down
By Jess Hayes
So many people love this book, and in many ways I did too. I’ve struggled to allow New Age therapies in – but Elizabeth Lesser has found a voice and writing style that is instantly relatable. From divorce to death, she has a wealth of wisdom to share about the trials in life’s ever-changing landscape. Her words are poetic, compassionate, and poignant. The stories she shares from her life and those that she observed from the Omega Institute inspire those of us who think we are alone in our problems. As they say, “sharing is caring,” so it’s helpful to read her share the irony that “the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we [are] meant to be.”Of the six sections (I.The Call of the Soul; II. The Phoenix Process; III. The Shaman Lover; IV. Children; V. Birth and Death; VI. River of Change) the greatest for me was The Phoenix Process. Through a combination of meditation, psychotheraphy, and prayer Lesser has developed a guide and toolbox of practices that help us “transform terror into revelations” in a believable and down-to-earth way. I’ve used psychotherapy before to heal heartbreak and depression, but I never trusted the power of prayer or dedicated the time necessary to meditation. I feel ready to do that now!Along this same thought vein, I feel that readers of this book would also really enjoy the new release Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic’s Love Story, and a lesser-known book called Impossible Love: Or Why the Heart Must Go Wrong.
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