Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential.
Now is the time to take back your energy, your power, and your peace.
Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we’d never go on our own.
What you can’t be with, won’t let you be.
The mind can’t take you where your heart longs to go.
As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.
There is not one life that doesn’t add tremendous value to the whole. Somewhere inside of us we know this to be true; we hear the call to head in the direction of this bigger life.
When we love all parts of ourselves, when we bless all of ourselves, when we honor all of our history and all of our insecurities, doubts, worries, and fears, we become the women that we always wanted to be.
Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being.
A courageous warrior knows that she is powerfully sourced by something much greater than herself and that she can release the judgments of others.
Please remember that pleasing another is not the same as caring for another.
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
It is vital that we recognize and tend to our unmet needs, because if we don’t take the time to care for them we will constantly find ourselves headed down paths that lead us away from our goals rather than toward what we desire. When we don’t deal with the unfulfilled needs inside us, they continue to drive us to act impulsively, to forsake our long-term vision in favor of short-term gratification. Then our unfulfilled needs, not our vision, drive our behaviors.
This powerful question – “Am I standing in my power or am I trying to please another?” – challenges us to believe in ourselves and make the daring choice to trust in our innate ability to know what’s in our highest and best interest.
Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
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.