Leza Lowitz > Quotes

“If you weren't scared,
you wouldn't be human,
you wouldn't be brave."

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"If you were fearless,
you wouldn't
need to overcome it.

Bravery means being scared
and going forward
anyway," Fia says.
"That's courage.”
― Leza Lowitz, Up From the Sea

“Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.”
― Leza Lowitz, Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold by

“Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.”
― Leza Lowitz, Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections

“Ojiisan says if you want to understand a people, look at their language. The words write the history, not the other way around.”
― Leza Lowitz, Jet Black and the Ninja Wind: British Edition

“If you weren't scared,
you wouldn't be human,
you wouldn't be brave.

What do you mean? I ask.

If you were fearless,
you wouldn't
need to overcome it.

Bravery means being scared
and going forward
anyway, Fia says.
That's courage”
― Leza Lowitz, Up From the Sea

“Before I had a name I existed in the world as breath as the wind as a star. For a moment if I could be the breath & the wind & the nameless star I’d meet the sky that holds them as it holds me, & I’d say joyfully, namaste.”
― Leza Lowitz, Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By