Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs
I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
Judgments that constrain your giving are the very demons that are keeping you from receiving.
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
Does this feel warmer or colder?
If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life.
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing physics or making a quilt, you must display your differences to make a difference.
The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.
During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .
In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't.
I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you’re okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you’re here, you’re surviving; this moment is okay.
Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.
Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.
Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.
Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
Dawn Kotzer is the kind of coach who can see beauty and wisdom in circumstances that seem ugly and chaotic. She's kind, genuine and honest, willing and able to see where her clients get stuck and gently help them recover their freedom. Better than a coach who gives you the answers, Dawn will help you find the answers to your life's dilemmas that are already within you.
The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
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