We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.
Good fortune has side effects.
Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.
I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.
You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.
Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.
Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
Slow is fast, gentle is powerful and stillness moves mountains.
As soon as you think you know someone else’s truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.
Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.
During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
Don’t fight fearful thoughts. Just match each one with an alternative thought that brings you more peace.
The way we do anything is the way we do everything.
What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you – yourself, in your uniqueness – to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.
Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.