Quotes

The winds of life may blow us off course but we can always adjust our sails.

Every tomorrow is determined by every today. -Paramahansa Yogananda

Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment. -Paramahansa Yogananda

Troubles are born from Avidya, Ignorance. Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent, and the nonperception of the Existent. -Sri Yukteswar

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. -William Blake

And then I learned the spiritual journey had nothing to do with being nice. It was about being real, authentic. Having boundaries. Honoring my space first, others second. And in this space of self-care being nice just happened, it flowed not motivated by fear but by love.

Be as you wish to seem. -Socrates

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. -Rumi

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. -Rumi

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. -Rumi

What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl. -Rumi

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. -Rumi

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside! -Rumi

Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. -Rumi

We are all worthy of respect. We are all worthy of validation – of being seen, of being heard, and of knowing that we matter. We are all worthy of Love. -Prasanna Ranganathan

This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom. -Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever is not an act of love is a cry for love. Answer either with Love. -Patricia Reed

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. -Oprah Winfrey

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.” -Oprah Winfrey

Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense against the outside world, against new people, new places, and different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work. -Paulo Coelho

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. -Paulo Coelho

You are set free from the fear of rejection the moment you realize that you are worthy, you are deserving, you are a perfect and unique expression of God/Source. -Patricia Reed

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. -Eckhart Tolle

The ego says, “I shouldn’t have to suffer,” and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. -Eckhart Tolle

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle. -Eckhart Tolle

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. -Mahatma Gandhi

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true. -Adyashanti

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. -David Icke

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy

Mind is the matrix of all matter. -Max Planck

The universe only pretends to be made of matter. Secretly, it is made of love. -Daniel Pinchbeck

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. -William Shakespeare

I thought I’d given my heart to him, but then I realized… I hadn’t. I had SHARED my heart with him. And then when he no longer wanted to share my heart, it was still mine. Unbroken. Unshattered. Complete, whole, healed, and intact… because it was always in my own safekeeping. Because I’d learned to love my Self first and always. -Patricia Reed

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. -Albert Einstein

Upgrade your comfort zone. -Patricia Reed

DREAM

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, and overgrown little wood… a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. -Katherine Mansfield

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. -Albert Einstein

You can.

I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain. -Nikola Tesla

Imagine your most wonderful life. And then learn to trust your imagination like you did when you were a kid. -Patricia Reed

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. -Rumi Acknowledge all of your emotions.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. -Rumi

With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side. -Susan Weiss Berry

Once the shadow is embraced, it can be healed. When it is healed it becomes love. -Debbie Ford

Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself. Let your altruism meet your egotism, let your generosity meet your greed, let your joy meet your grief… But when you are able to say, “I am all of the above, my shadow as well as my light,” the shadow’s power is put in the service of good. -Parker Palmer

Self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.       -Parker Palmer

It’s not your job to like me. It’s MINE.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion and treat themselves accordingly. -Martha Beck

Learn to First Love Yourself (Learn to FLY)

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -Lews B. Smedes

Just Love yourself.

Look in the mirror and watch your mind. Your thought can be one of judgment, or your thought can be one of Love. You choose.  -Patricia Reed

You can’t hate yourself happy. You can’t criticise yourself thin. You can’t shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care. -Jessica Ortner

Self-Love is not selfish. It’s not selfish to love yourself enough to receive your most basic human needs, your most cherished dreams, hopes, goals and desires, or anything in between. -Patricia Reed

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it. -Doe Zantamata

You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head. Be kind to yourself.

Every time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.

Today, I will not judge myself. I will remember to talk to myself like someone I love. I will give myself the benefit of the doubt. I will give myself compassion for past pain. I will look in the mirror and see my favorite face in the world, and I will smile at myself, for myself. Today, I will choose me, and I will remember to be my own best friend. -Patricia Reed

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. -Pema Chodron

Compassionate action has to start with ourselves. If we are willing to stand fully in our own shoes and never give up on ourselves, then we will be able to put ourselves in the shoes of others and never give up on them. -Pema Chodron

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. -Pema Chodron

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other. -Pema Chodron

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away to become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. -Pema Chodron

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others – what and whom we can work with, and how – becomes wider. -Pema Chodron

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves. -Pema Chodron

Be nice to yourself… It’s hard to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time. -Christine Arylo

You can’t change what’s going on around you until you change what’s going on within you. -Patricia Reed

Unmask your shadows to stand in your greatness. -Lolly Daskal

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.        -Carl Jung

I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. -Carl Jung

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. -Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. -Carl Jung

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. -Buddha

When you cannot ask for help without self-judgment, you are never really offering help without judgment. -Brene Brown

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others. -Brene Brown

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable, and imperfect. -Brene Brown

How to change the world in 3 easy steps: 1. Breathe in I Love Me 2. Breathe out I Love You (no matter who) 3. Repeat -Patricia Reed

The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and emotions; and is constantly doing all the work using you as a mere instrument. -Bhagavad Gita