Latest Caroline Myss Quotes from Interviews

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• Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

  Caroline Myss

  Giving, Choices, Spirit

  Source: www.oprah.com

• I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.

  Caroline Myss

  Pain, Grief, Heart

• We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.

  Caroline Myss

  People, Intuition, Suffering

• People know when they've betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, "You shouldn't have said that" or "You know that's not right."

  Caroline Myss

  Voice, People, Betrayed

• When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.

  Caroline Myss

  Taken, Detours, Path

  Source: www.oprah.com

• If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What's the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Differences, People

• A compromise is done willingly and out of love. You don't go away thinking, "I betrayed myself."

  Caroline Myss

  Love You, Thinking, Going Away

  "Caroline Myss' Advice for Getting to the Heart of Who You Really Are". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2013.

• Think about the number of times someone will say to herself, "I want to get out of this circumstance, but I'm too afraid. I'll lie about how happy I am in this marriage, and I'll put up a front." But she's betraying everything that's in her heart. She's making choices that are harming her, and that's why she's hurting. Her intuition is trying to tell her that.

  Caroline Myss

  Hurt, Lying, Heart

  Source: www.oprah.com

• You know an action is the correct one for you because you don't think, "This is costing me my power." I can be tired after a day's work at the right job, but I'm not psychically drained to where I feel like I'm losing life.

  Caroline Myss

  Jobs, Tired, Thinking

  "Caroline Myss' Advice for Getting to the Heart of Who You Really Are". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2013.

• If you want to know for sure that you are on the right path, here's your clue: You're not put in a position where you feel like you have to negotiate your sense of integrity, which is an act of betrayal. You don't feel like you have to compromise who you are.

  Caroline Myss

  Betrayal, Integrity, Path

  Source: www.oprah.com

• We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.

  Caroline Myss

  Heart, Choices, Mind

  Source: www.oprah.com

• Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.

  Caroline Myss

  Earth, Way, Fairs

  Source: www.oprah.com

• Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, "I can't believe this happened to me." And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, "I must be on the wrong path." But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path?

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.oprah.com

• Survival activates miracles when a person relies on the graces of hope and faith.

  Caroline Myss

  Miracle, Grace, Survival

  Source: www.oprah.com

• Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won.

  Caroline Myss

  Fighting, Despair, Battle

  Source: www.oprah.com

• You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Moving, Loss

  Source: www.oprah.com

• I cannot take you out and say you are separate from the whole. If someone says to me, "Well, how do I find my life purpose?" I first say, "You've never lost your life purpose." Number two, I say, "Have no judgments about your life. No expectations. Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now."

  Caroline Myss

  Giving Up, Two, Numbers

  Source: www.oprah.com

• If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.

  Caroline Myss

  Purpose, Ifs

  Source: www.oprah.com

• One atom is as purposeful as our planet. What is in one is in the whole.

  Caroline Myss

  Atoms, Planets, Our Planet

  Source: www.oprah.com

• People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: "What is my reason for living?" How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life?

  Caroline Myss

  Journey, Careers, People

• People define their life by what they want versus what they have. People get fixated on something and they have to have it, even though that voice inside tells them it's not meant for them.

  Caroline Myss

  Voice, People, Want

• You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.

  Caroline Myss

  Mean, Agreement, People

  "Caroline Myss' Advice for Getting to the Heart of Who You Really Are". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2013.

• 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.

  Caroline Myss

  Personality, Purpose, Alive

  "Caroline Myss' Advice for Getting to the Heart of Who You Really Are". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2013.

• Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as a spiritual document that our soul recognizes.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Thinking, Soul

• [You should] see everything about your life as a lesson. Ask, "Am I empowering myself?" Even for a tiny thing, like if you're in the grocery store and you're thinking, "Should I buy that?" And your gut says, "You know you can't eat that." If you decide not to listen, you've harmed yourself by blocking your intuitive voice.

  Caroline Myss

  Block, Thinking, Voice

  "Caroline Myss' Advice for Getting to the Heart of Who You Really Are". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2013.