Caroline Myss Quotes
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So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable.
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By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
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Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
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To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.
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I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.
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You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.
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If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.
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Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.
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If you have life, you have purpose.
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It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.
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How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?
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I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.
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None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance.
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The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.
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Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.
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Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
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Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.
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You are afraid of your own empowerment as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.
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There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed.
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Someone asks me what's my practice? I don't want the fear of being humiliated to have authority over me. I don't want it to come near me. I don't want it to have a voice in my decisions. I don't want it to be anywhere near me. What's my practice? That one. I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.