Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We.
Only by living in reality 100 percent of the time do we have the power to take action, make lasting changes, and become the masters of our lives.
Think of denial as an acronym for Don’t Even Notice I Am Lying.
Everyone sees other people differently because everyone is projecting aspects of him or her self.
It is the greatest mistake,” he said, “to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. We think that if a man is called Ivan he is always Ivan. Nothing of the kind. Now he is Ivan, in another minute he is Peter, and a minute later he is Nicholas, Sergius, Matthew, Simon. And all of you think he is Ivan.
I knew that to accomplish my goal I would need to stay present with my discomfort and my fear of the unknown rather than retreat to the false safety of familiar ground.
If you shift lenses from “I’m in the world” to “I am the world ,” you will understand that it’s not only okay to be everything, but it’s essential.
When you are internally driven by not wanting to be something, you often become the opposite. This robs you of your right to choose what you really want to do with your life.
If you have an inner dialogue that disempowers you, it won’t change until you yourself replace it with a positive, powerful, internal conversation.
When you don’t own an aspect of yourself it runs your life.
We are only as sick as our secrets.
There is an old saying, ‘It takes one to know one.’ We see in others what we like and don’t like in ourselves. If we embrace these parts of ourselves we will be able to see others as they are, not as we see them through our cloud of projection.
I realized I only judged people when they displayed a quality I could not accept in myself.
We are where we are because of repeated unconscious or unhealthy choices that we’ve made day after day after day that add up to the reality we find ourselves in.
It’s really quite simple: if we want our lives to be different, all we have to do is make different choices.
If you are fearful about discovering your anger, remember that your power is buried along with it.
Your sub-personalities can tell you what work is left unfinished, what you have to do to resolve recurring patterns. They will tell you what you need to do to learn a specific lesson. If you’re willing to listen you will find your sub-personalities are funny, resourceful, honest, and forgiving – the wisest people in the universe when it comes to yourself. This is because they’re giving you answers that come from within you.
Freedom is being able to choose whoever and whatever you want to be at any moment in your life.
We project our own shortcomings onto others. We say to others what we should be saying to ourselves.
Our actions are reactions, our choices based on the way we feel in the moment, with no consideration for their impact on our future.