The amount of suffering you actually can feel, you want to be able to do something about it. You want to be able to attend to it, to change the system that is making this happen. Because you are so aware of how unnecessary it is, and therein lies the deeper pain.
People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them.
Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.
Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for ‘proof’ that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.
Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!
I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it’s part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.
Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force – and of the other person’s.
It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.
The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.
Through the years of my life, the older I’ve gotten, the more sensitive I’ve become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that’s not how the equation is working out here.
Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.
Your biography becomes your biology.
From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.
Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential – you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.
Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us – for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.
We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It’s a neutral experience is what I’m trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.
Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.
That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.