“You can gain so much from taking a good, honest look at yourself – some call this going within – and seeing who you really are. Understand your own fears and judgments, and your perceptions of the world will shift drastically, and with that, your whole body will lighten up. If you don’t believe it, think about posture or body language. We reveal our feelings in the way we move our bodies and carry ourselves. When we are sad or insecure, we tend to slump a little. When we are feeling confident and proud, we stand straight with our heads held high. This is because your feelings about yourself and the world influence how you create your body every day. That is why it is so important to uncover the roots of your many thoughts and feelings. You could avoid many physical difficulties and improve current health problems drastically just by changing a negative belief about yourself.”

Sara Chetkin, in “The Healing Curve”

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“Real friendships can handle “no.” If your relationship cannot survive honesty, it is not a real friendship. Friends can disagree and yet love and respect one another. True caring requires realness, the willingness to be who we are. A friendship based on anything other than sincerity is a guilt bargain – two people  selling themselves out for approval, and not acknowledging that their heart is aching to share more. In a way, many of the world’s friendships are like the story of the emperor’s new clothes. The ills of our world hold power only when we are unwilling to tell the truth in the face of illusions.

Darkness cannot stand the light, and illusions cannot endure in the face of the truth. Dedicate your friendship to the truth, and you will be amazed at the peace and satisfaction it brings you. If a friendship is not big enough to survive your “no,” you don’t want it anyway. The real strength of a true relationship lies in our willingness to speak our honest thoughts and feelings. Do not settle for anything less.”

Alan Cohen, in “Dare to Be Yourself”

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“If you are a person who has felt and expressed a lot of anger in your life, you need to look for the hurt that is underneath it and express that. You are using anger as a defense mechanism to avoid being vulnerable. An important key in transforming anger into an acceptance of your power is learning to assert yourself. Learn to ask for what you want and do what you want to do without being unduly influenced by other people. When you stop giving your power away to other people you won’t feel angry any more.”

Shakti Gawain, in “Living in the Light”

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“I purchased a stopwatch at an athletics store, the kind that marathoners use to train for triathlons, and I set the alarm to sound every nine minutes, except while I slept. The first beep occurred, at which time I stopped to notice what was happening with my thoughts. Was I thinking of something that had already happened in the past? Or, was I contemplating some future event, or hoping for some positive outcome? Was I worried about something that hadn’t even happened yet?

After investigating the nature of my own thoughts in this manner for several days, I was shocked to discover just how non-stop my thinking actually was. Clearly, I could not deny that I could benefit from a quieter mind. Not only were my thoughts chronically active, but they were mostly repetitive. In addition, many thoughts had to do with the future or the past, even when I was physically involved in some activity. It seemed that my mind wasn’t satisfied to engage in one activity at a time. It wanted to multi-task to accomplish several things at once, all in the name of being more productive. Like everyone else’s my mind never stopped thinking.”

Lisette Larkins, in “Difficult People”

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“If you experience jealousy, it is often based on a fear that others are giving something to someone else that they are not giving to you. If you look and examine the issue, it is usually something you are not giving yourself. If you are jealous of your mate giving attention to another person and you want to curtail his freedom so that he cannot do so, look again. It may be that your higher self is not being given the attention it is requiring.

Jealousy takes away the freedom of both the one who is jealous and the one who is possessed. If you give yourself what you need – be it attention, love, or something else – them you will not experience jealousy. You will find that you can get satisfaction from many sources, not just from the one you love. Jealousy implies scarcity, that there is not enough. Freedom implies abundance, that there is enough.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Living with Joy”

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