When you have any sort of intense emotional reaction, you have a choice: look for proof that you should feel it even deeper or look for the thought process that is triggering the emotion. One takes yo...
Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.
Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine.
There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.
The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.
Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself.
Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow.
Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.
We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of people on you...
One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.
Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...
The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.
There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.
Unconditional love goes beyond holding on and letting go. Real love is about truth. It's about looking at what's really going on instead of the stories we tell ourselves about it. It's about being abl...
When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.
No one's approval is enough to make up for a lack of self-love, which is really a lack of self-awareness.When we feel a desire to be loved, it isn't other people's love we need. It's our own relations...
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 am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.
The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the sa...
The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and uns...
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