Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.
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.
Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
Take off your watch: the divine is speaking to you.
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.
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.
I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there
To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in "bowed down by cares." Or anxiety, as in "Careful!" Or investment in an outcome, as in "Who cares?" The word love has no such range of meaning: It's pure acceptance.
There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.
You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.
I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
