Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.
Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.
Fall open. Break open. Sit with others’ openness. Let love be your medicine.
Don’t let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you’re meant to be today.
Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say they do believe in God, and they claim God is an energy moving through all living things. Some people believe in a holy book, and their faith gives them the same feeling of certainty that sustains people of other faiths as well as non-believers. Over this, we start wars.
Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.
Love, happiness, peace – these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything.
There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.
Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.
Trying to fix ourselves while pretending to love ourselves doesn’t work. We don’t heal through objectification. We heal through understanding. We need to feel appreciated by the people who help us – ourselves included.
There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.
Eyes which feast on the beauty of the world will always look beautiful to others. That which receives beauty exudes it as well.
If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s approval is actually a hindrance, more than a helper, when it comes to self-discovery.
No loss is without opportunity. No failure is without valuable lessons. Plunge in. It will, at worst, be a valuable experience.
Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.
When curiosity is an end in itself – a perspective, a viewpoint, a way of life – then it fuels an easy, egoless, playful relationship between ourselves and the world around us.
I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what’s familiar.
I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.
To maintain any degree of sanity, we must believe that everything is interconnected on some level and to experience that level fully once in a while.