Even before my grandmother could beat or punish me for one thing or another, before my father could sit me down to lecture me about my defiant disobedience, I was already hemorrhaging internally from...
The form of gossip, betrayal, and unwarranted judgment. Women are also more prone than men to compare themselves to one another.
Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.
Truth is love’s mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone’s mother. Somehow, some way, Mother always finds out that you are lying. When she does, there is hell to pay!
Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.
It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life. —James Baldwin
I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. The
We really want to see change in the world and find a common, sacred meeting place, we can practice forgiveness rather than against-ness.
Used the sordid details of my stories as an excuse to talk badly about men, judge them, mistrust them, expect little from them, and give of myself begrudgingly as I waited for the axe to fall on my ne...
There comes a point where a person’s psycho-social history is of little or no consequence.
Your head or intellect is addicted to the satisfaction of your physical senses—the place that holds all of the programming and conditioning of your childhood and adult experiences and is the throne of...
What if forgiving my mother also means forgiving myself?
Unworthiness always puts you in debt to anyone and everyone who shows you the slightest degree of attention or love or energy. Eventually, in this form of bankrupt relationship, your benefactors will...
Honor your own Self. Meditate on your own Self. Worship your own Self. Kneel to your own Self. Understand your own Self. Your God dwells within you as you.
Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul.
We fear solitude. We mistake it for loneliness and attempt to fill the emptiness, the silence with activity and noise and people. But the solitude of Snapper Five provided Rhonda with the silence she...
Opinions, and convictions when they do not mirror what I believe.
Is very hard to learn to trust yourself when you are taught that you are bad, wrong, and cursed—and that you did all of it to yourself. H
You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with dru...
Whether the apple is deemed a good sign or bad sign depends on what that person believes