When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will...

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can...

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest. We are important as long as the rest “is”. – Rossana Condoleo

And here’s the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty...

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.

Sooner or later our souls find their centre of gravity in a hot, salt-tasting kiss and a trembling touch. Trembling is a good sign: it means you’re open to a world that knows you’re coming.

Was I like honey thinking it’s a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of failure–as if it mattered. It seemed to him now that such...

Your success can’t be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.

When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it. Understanding and experiencing are the same thing. For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness...

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

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

At best, people are open to scrutinizing themselves and considering their blind spots; at worst, they become defensive and angry.

When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.

Recognize that there’s something AMAZING about you. Everyone has something that comes very natural for them – natural gifts and talents. That gift/talent is that thing or things that comes easy for you, but hard...

He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I’m not. There’s something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never...

Perhaps they didn’t know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

Emotional states change like the wind, and to indulge them only gives them more power over a person.

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those...

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

She was looking for something I could never give her.” Again his dark eyes bored into Julia’s mind. “You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don’t think you will...

The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.

It doesn’t matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness...

We’re freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I’m a twenty-five-year-old freak and she’s a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting...

Love sparkles out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom, providing beauty. it causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty which is instilled within me...

Energy holds our potential in patterns of intelligence. Self awareness can take us to these shimmering fields so we can manifest our choices ~ Jeanne McElvaney

You’re surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don’t notice me.

Ogni uomo ha le sue bestie che se ne stanno in agguato al buio, e le sue maschere per nasconderle. E scatenarle fuori di sé nel mondo non è una via per liberarsene. Quindi sì,...

Life’s been one tough little shit, but there’s a very obvious reason why she hasn’t let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in...

When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our...

I am.I always was.I always am.I shall always be.The past and the futuremeet in the eternal now.I am the eternal now.I exist. I am.I am in the past.I am in the future.I am in the...

The purpose of life is to live it being self-aware in the eternal now with its infinite versions of us. It is about living our dreams, and not just dreaming about living them one day.

It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don’t like?Well, then, you’re discontented, en’t you? There’s plenty of folk as’d like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a...

I am not able,” then I set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. As I think of myself, so I shall be.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy.

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer’s arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary.

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

Are you repeating someone else’s narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of...

In brief: consciousness is a phenomenon in the zone of evolution. This world lights up to itself only where or only inasmuch as it develops, procreates new forms. Places of stagnancy slip from consciousness; they...

When we are self-aware, we are able to reach beyond ourselves and objectively assess others… allowing us to meet them where they are at, seeing into their needs and struggles, so we can understand the...

The shelf where you can find the power to kick start is the shelf of self-confidence. No matter how loaded you are with the right information, you need to pull yourself out!