“The love emanating from your essence wants you to experience your highest version of you. And for this to happen, you must act from love. You can’t act from love, though, when you are buying into some limited belief about yourself. It is your ego that would have you believe you are so small and insignificant that there is no way you could make those “pipe dreams” in your heart your reality. You – the proverbial grain of sand on a vast beach – don’t really matter, right? You don’t have anything of value to offer, correct? You have a choice: sink into those thoughts OR listen to your essence scream “That’s bullshit!”

Your essence is guiding you to realize that if you continue to choose your ego’s narrow path, you guarantee an unfulfilled life of frustration.”

Michelle Bersell, in “F.E.E.L.: Feel Every Emotion as Love”

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“Forgiving means that you are for giving instead of against giving. Forgiveness doesn’t demand that you condone what others do with their lives or how they use it against you; you only need to give willingly to the Life within them, which is the same one Life within you. Each time you forgive, you heal the spirit trapped within the action and the person.

Often we resist forgiving for fear that, in forgiving, the hurtful experience may be repeated. In truth, however, it is only in forgiving that we cull the wisdom from our experience and, once the lesson is learned, we need not repeat it. Forgiveness grows out of the wisdom of the heart and forgiveness is the heart of wisdom. Love for-ever-gives.”

Michael J. Tamura, in “You Are the Answer”

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“We have great difficulty accepting ourselves just as we are, because we’re afraid that who we are right now isn’t good enough. Even tentatively entertaining the thought of accepting ourselves as we are can feel threatening. The New Age movement, built on the premise that we are not okay as we are but must constantly work to improve ourselves on all levels is a prominent example.

Look at this closely: we have an ingrained fear that, if we decide to honor and love ourselves just as we are, we’ll lose our motivation for chronically pushing ourselves to get ahead in life. And we deeply fear this motivation. We worship success and advancement – and we judge the present moment itself as not good enough. But is this true?

Aren’t we capable of enjoying life as it is right now? Must we make things better before we can ease up and enjoy ourselves?”

John Selby, in “Expand this Moment”

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“If you really want to know how stubborn you are, just approach the idea of being willing to change. We all want to have our lives change, to have situations become better and easier, but we don’t want to have to change. We would rather they change. In order to have this happen, we must change inside. We must change our way of thinking, change our way of speaking, change our way of expressing ourselves. Only then will the outer changes occur.”

Louise Hay, in “You Can Heal Your Life”

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“Our history is not our destiny. You and I are here to build and live in a new world. Your role in bringing about that world is much simpler than you have realized. You are not required to become a world leader, invent a revolutionary mode of travel, or discover a miraculous medicinal panacea—unless your spirit so guides you.

Your purpose here is much more personal and relevant to the life you are not living. You are here to discover and release the beliefs that have kept you living in a circle smaller than your potential, and step into a world that honors the greatness within you and everyone you meet. You are here to claim your vision and walk in the light. You are here to be you.”

Alan Cohen, in “The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

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