“Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.”

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you’ve made in the past.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.

If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you’re in the process, then the result is guaranteed.

The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

The body does not create the mind; the Mind creates the body.

Be willing to redefine yourself every day.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it’s the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature.

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn’t serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

We all know you’re beautiful, scott.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

When we’re deluded there’s a world to escape. When we’re aware, there’s nothing to escape.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

Nice creepy reptile,” Frank said, very aware of the driftwood in his coat pocket. “Nice poisonous, fire-breathing reptile.

It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.