Caroline Myss Quotes
Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.
Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential - you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.
Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you.
For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.
Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.
I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.
I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.
If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.
Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.
Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.
How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.
We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.
The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.
We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.
People define their life by what they want versus what they have. People get fixated on something and they have to have it, even though that voice inside tells them it's not meant for them.
Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.
You are afraid of your own empowerment as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.
We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.
I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.
Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as a spiritual document that our soul recognizes.
I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion.
We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.
People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.
The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.
I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.
I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.
I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.
I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process.
What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.