A soul cannot be broken. It is not a teacup. If you have suffered abuse of any kind, know that perfection exists untarnished within you.
Unfelt feelings don’t cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed – if it remains open there is nothing to break.
All artists give birth. It’s alchemy and it’s really an amazing process.
Don’t accept the fear that scarcity exists in any corner of your life. There is enough love, enough time, enough healing to go around. Give what you wish to receive.
You can boil down all interactions to two categories: ones that grow love and ones that diminish it. Choose love.
We really become one – we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor – freedom, expression, acceptance, love.
The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence.
You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.
Fame and power do not change us; they amplify us. If we are insecure, we grow more so. If we are addictive, we become a greater addict and insatiable. If we are desirous of truth, we seek it more. If we are generous, we become more so. If we seek to fill holes through dishonest means, we have greater access to do so. Fame and power are masterful teachers.
Today they are still strong and self-sufficient, not wilting flowers waiting for a man to help. They shoe their own horses and peel logs and build homes and get anything done that needs doing. They are feminine and wild as a mountain meadow.
Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.
What bends does not break.
I realized that happiness was not some bird that landed on your shoulder by accident, but was a skill that was taught, or not taught, in certain houses and families. After.
Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.
We are not in the business of fighting darkness. We are farmers of light.
I learned years later that my gratitude practice actually helped me form new neural pathways. The hippie rituals of positive affirmations are not just baloney. Gratitude doesn’t exist only in your mind – you have to feel it in your whole being. Feelings are the shadows of thoughts. When we have negative thoughts, our emotions mirror them with anxiety. You can often see what you are thinking by reverse engineering and studying your feelings.
One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, “I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You’re no more special than me.” I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, “Thanks. I agree,” and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.
Reality wins, and I’d rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.
Negative self-criticism is an iron chain that will never let you ascend to real greatness.
I would try to be as bold as that blue waterfall that had the audacity to liberate itself from stone.