We can only

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

~Native American proverb

When you are able

When you are able to contain both the light and dark together, that is a very enlightening state. It means that you no longer have to choose one experience over another. You do not have to choose love OR hate, blame OR forgiveness, sadness OR joy, anger OR openheartedness. You are no longer polarized; no particular feeling boxes you in and keeps you from the light of true self. You then have access to the full range of human experiences you came into this life to embrace.

~Martia Nelson

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Don't expect

Don't expect someone better, someone saner or more insightful or miraculously and infinitely wiser, to suddenly occupy your body no matter where you are.

~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Everything you need

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

~Wayne Dyer

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All things

All things divinely intended for my life must be made welcome - heart breaking, unfair and ugly are surely well deserved, but more than that, they make way for the truest truths and a love so impossibly beautiful it will outlast this soul for sure.

~Grace Gibson

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It is the heart

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.


- Henry Ward Beecher

In the stillness

In the stillness of night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not you yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?

--Ken Wilber

The individual

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

We are so accustomed

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."

~François de la Rochefoucauld

The basis of shame

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone."

~Milan Kundera

Knowledge in martial arts

"Knowledge in martial arts actually means self-knowledge. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing. The understanding of Jeet Kune Do is through personal feeling from movement to movement in the mirror of the relationship and not through a process of isolation. To be is to be related. To isolate is death. To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do."

~ Bruce Lee

Remove those

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -
on your mirror!

~ Susan Jeffers

I tell you

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Here we are

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Be careful

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

~Kurt Vonnegut

Myself

"The 'myself' which I am beginning to recognize,which I had forgotten but actually know better than anything else, goes far back beyond my childhood, beyond the time when adults confused me and tried to tell me that I was someone else; when, because they were bigger and stronger, they could terrify me with their imaginary fears and bewilder and outface me in the complicated game that I had not yet learned."

~Alan Watts

The real

The real is just as magical as the magical is real.

~Ernst Junger

I never thought

I never thought I was normal,
never tried to be normal.

~Charles Manson

When I'm good

When I'm good, I'm very good.
When I'm bad I'm better.

~Mae West

When

When one is pretending,
the entire body revolts.

~Anais Nin