Believing in yourself is not just for you; it’s for every person who
has touched your life in a significant way and for every person your
life will touch the same way five minutes from now,
or five centuries from now.
– Anon
If someone talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them a long time ago.
– Carla Gordan
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
– David Viscott
Despite what your subconscious may be telling you, you can have love
with no limits. The key is to unconditionally love yourself first.
– Cynthia Legette Davis
When love is missing in our lives, we must look at ourselves and see
how we are not being loving to ourselves and to others. Since what we
give out comes back, then if we’re short on love, we need to give
ourselves and others love, and then there will be plenty of love to go
around.
– Marie T. Russell
Let God be your teacher. Let the Tao flower in you. You don’t need to
control things anymore. When you are willing to be helpful, life flows
through you. You become the channel, the means by which love without
conditions can reach into the world.
– Paul Ferrini
As you push our your thoughts and revel in the silence, you will feel
the energy of the loving presence flowing through you. Give yourself a
holy instant to make a silent affirmation that you are with God.
– Wayne Dyer
Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds.
Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
– Barbara Garrison
Align with your life purpose by focusing on BEING the truth of who you
are. Focus on transforming all of the fear inherent in your body about
BEING who you are born to be. Then the doing becomes a natural
expression of who you are, as easy as an apple tree making apples.
– Colleen-Joy Page
When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you treat
them you will treat yourself. As you think of them you will think of
yourself. Never forget this, for in them you will find yourself or lose
your Self.
– A Course in Miracles
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
– Kahlil Gibran
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
– Ken Blanchard
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.
– Maya Angelou
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is
fixed. I find I am at my best when I can let the flow of my experience
carry me, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward a goal of
which I am but dimly aware. In thus floating with the complex stream of
my experiencing and in trying to understand its ever-changing
complexity, it should be evident that there are no fixed points. When I
am thus able to be in the process, it is clear that there can be no
closed system of beliefs, no unchanging set of principles that I hold.
Life is guided by a changing of and interpretation of my experience. It
is always in process of becoming.
– (Mister) Carl Rogers
You may only feel like a drop in the ocean, but I tell you this, you
have the power of the ocean inside of you — and the ocean knows you,
even if you have forgotten the ocean. When you find the ocean in you,
you will feel like the river the runs towards the sea, not trying to
climb hills but simply flowing in accordance with the deeper calling
that draws you nearer to fully merge with your greatest self.
– Colleen-Joy Page
It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and
this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never
allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way
you want.
– Eknath Easwaran
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my
vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
– Audre Lorde
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
– Henry Miller
This universe that we live in operates according to set laws of nature
and unfolds according to orderly principles. Because of this, one does
not have to assume that choices are forced on us. There is also the
possibility of simple being, of letting the flow of life take care of
us.
– Deepak Chopra
It is never easy to embrace a new way of doing things even when we know
it is in our best interest. Initially, we feel immobilized, and forcing
ourselves to do something new feels unnatural. But if we understand how
energy works, we realize that it is precisely this feeling that is
heralding a change for the better. We are stuck. We have gone as far as
we can go without doing something different. Unless we are willing to
stretch ourselves and reach out into the world, we will never be able
to create new forms to express who we are. We cannot use our inner life
as a weapon, retreating from a world that won’t let us hide. When we
do, we cut ourselves off from a lifeline of possibilities, fresh and
different ways to experience the world.
– Chandra Alexander
People are the way they are, and your need to dominate or change them
in any way is the edict of your false self. Your ego is, as usual,
trying to convince you of your separateness. It also doesn’t want you
to catch on to how it is controlling your life, so it convinces you
that if you don’t dominate others, they will get the best of you.
– Wayne Dyer
As we receive God’s love and impart it to others, we are given the power to repair the world.
– Marianne Williamson
If we don’t forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the
wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And
the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is
isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to
ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.
– Joan Borysenko
And what is healing? Healing is joining. Healing is the coming together
that brings peace and denies separation. And healing, as I have told
you, is quite simply the release from the past. Because it is the past
that determines where you are, that defines your ego, that places
within your ego the demand to get and to become. And all of that is
really the demand to isolate yourself from your brothers and your
world. And as you would release the past, you shall be healed.
Brent Haskell
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep
your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep
your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your
values positive because your values become your destiny.
– Mohandas Gandhi
Prejudiced thinking comes from treating your mind like a rental space
for the thoughts and beliefs of others. Learning to furnish your mind
with your personal interpretation, even for a moment, frees you to know
yourself and others through your higher self. When your mind is
occupied by prejudice, ego is the landlord.
– Wayne Dyer
Alone we can do nothing, but together our minds fude into something
whose power is far beyond the power of its separate parts. By not being
separate, the Mind of God is established in ours and as ours. The Mind
is invincible because it is undivided.
– Gifts from A Course In Miracles
There can be no form of suffering that fails to hide an unforgiving
thought. Nor can there be a form of pain forgiveness cannot heal.
– Gifts from A Course In Miracles
All of time is but the made belief that what is over is still here and now.
– Gifts from A Course In Miracles
When you maintain that you are guilty but the source of your guilt lies
in the past, you are not looking inward. The past is not in you. Your
weird associations to it have no meaning in the present. Yet you let
them stand between you and your brothers, with whom you find no real
relationships at all.
– Gifts from A Course In Miracles
Child of peace, the light has come to you. The light you bring you do
not recognize, and yet you will remember. Who can deny himself the
vision that he brings to others?
– Gifts from A Course In Miracles
The end of guilt will never come as long as you believe there is a
reason for it. For you must learn that guilt is always totally insane,
and has no reason.
– Gifts from A Course In Miracles
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
– William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909