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.
My deep belief is that all of us have the same lifelong work: to learn honesty, courage, and love. To learn, in other words, how to be our best selves.
Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again.
The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
To be really productive, it’s as important to rest when we’re tired as it is to work when we’re inspired.
If you’re religious, it gives you a perspective.