Imagine the choices you’d make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.
Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment – no matter how frozen or confused – was a useful and necessary lesson.
It’s only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.
Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.
A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.
If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.
If we’re stuck with having expectations, there’s a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it’s that we often create what we anticipate.
The past doesn’t exist except as a memory, a mental story, and though past events aren’t changeable, your stories about them are. You can act now to transform the way you tell the story of your past, ultimately making it a stalwart protector of your future.
Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it’s essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.
Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
I’m not saying we have power over everything in our lives – if that were true, my hair would look so, so different – but I am saying that there’s no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.
Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before.
Peace is more than just a feeling. It’s the mental and physical frequency where you’ll find all your real power.
You’re exactly where you’re meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.
Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.
The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.