“Let a mindful life spring forth from the part of you that simply witnesses your life without judgement.”
“By noticing physical sensations and mental processes nonjudgmentally and without attachment, you can become an external observer. Through this role, you can learn more about yourself and your true nature.”
“Your personality self’s job is to make your world understandable.”
“The search for security might translate into ways that you choose to guard your heart and emotions in romantic relationships.”
“When you meditate and slow down your mind, you give yourself an opportunity to rest a little farther back in your consciousness and experience the awareness of your inner witness.”
“When you are down, surrender to your Divine Cosmic Self. Self will give you the the strength and show you the path”
“Journaling can be an excellent way to increase self-awareness, discover and change habits.”
“A person who doesn’t understand flowers might tug on them to make them grow. A person who doesn’t speak the language of someplace might misread the locals’ sentiments and intentions. Yet you are already such a flower, and your inner locals—your emotions, your body, your thoughts—are already speaking to you. If you don’t learn the language of your experience, then how can you understand yourself? How can you help yourself?”
“Some thoughts, possessing a frightening kind of self-awareness, knew to hide deep beneath others, riding unseen the same currents, where they could grow unchallenged, unexposed by any horrified recognition. One could always sense them, of course, but that was not the same as slashing through all the obfuscation, revealing them bared to the harsh light and so seeing them wither into dust. The mind ran its own shell-game, ever amused at its own sleight of hand misdirection – in truth, this was how one tended to live, from moment to moment, with the endless exchange of denials and deference and quick winks in the mirror, even as inner proclamations and avowals thundered with false willpower and posturing conviction.”
“I did no such thing as sit there with my mouth open, though I may as well have, since I felt as if my mind was gaping. It had simply never occurred to me to wonder what kind of person I was, what kind of person I wanted to be. I had not envisioned this as something I had any control over, just as I could not alter the round shape of my face or the dense black curl of my hair.”
“Your perception is the world s perception, your realization is the world s realization.”
“Getting caught up in the drama only creates more drama. Take an intermission, step out, chill out, ask yourself, what is this drama really about, what role am I playing?”
“Speak up, be honest, be truthful, avoidance makes matters worse and only creates more anguish, it does not prevent the inevitable happening.”
“The quest for self-discovery is the desire to know thy soul.”