Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

No one needs to hit rock bottom to change. And yet so many people do, only because most of us are unskilled in communicating with ourselves.Stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, illness … these are all...

I flourish when I realize I’m already complete.

come hither” to be reason enough to go.

The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find,...

The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay....

Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing...

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

Sometimes “No” is the kindest word.

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch – on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting...

There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend our time and money on trying to become these things. We put on the high heels,...

There are few things more powerful than people united.

You matter. You’re not broken. You’re stronger than you think.

A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.

To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist...

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today – whether they kill you or enthrall you – won’t be the same tomorrow,...

Within, you hold a tiny piece of eternity, a fraction of life, a mirror of the universe.

To live is to grow.

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.

If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it’s a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be...

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

No one is too poor to give a smile – a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.

Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws...

We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.

We can only discover our true strength through struggle. Don’t give up. Find out what you’re made of.

Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a product of my inadequacy but, rather, a product of my thoughts.

An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.

I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what’s familiar.

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don’t ever give up.

When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to...

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things....

The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new...

The transformed person is a revolutionary only because he has revolutionized himself. He gives the people inspiration by holding up a mirror to their inner substance.

There’s nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There’s nothing stronger than vulnerability. There’s no better time than now.

Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.

In your heart, you have a song that will change the world, once you give yourself permission to sing.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

World peace is really inner peace within each individual mind.

At the end of the day, we all crawl, exhausted, to some doorstep. Some crawl to the doorstep of their new home, the one they have sought for miles without giving up their goal, exhausted...

Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived.

Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.

When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then...