The shadow is not a problem to be solved or an enemy to be conquered, but a fertile field to be cultivated. When we dig our hands into its rich soil we will discover the potent seeds of the people we most desire to be.
DEBBIE FORDDivorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.
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Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can’t handle.
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It is your soul’s journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory – the evolution of your own individual consciousness.
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The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self.
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
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Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway.
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Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we’d never go on our own.
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Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconnects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.
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If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.
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Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.
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True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.
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Live in the knowledge that you are a gift to the world.
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We can’t fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it.
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We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we’ve made up, are the truth.
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You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here-whether you want to acknowledge it or not; whether you even know it or not-for the evolution of your own soul.
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The mind can’t take you where your heart longs to go.
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