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The courage with which you enter today will become the fate that you meet tomorrow. Will you continue to replay the memories of yesterday, or will you meet the moment and make the most of what is in front of you now?
You are exactly where you need to be. This is the perfect day to start your life again.
Every given moment contains within it doorways of opportunity, and when you choose to walk through one, you make realities available to you that were once invisible. When you do not know what is next, you enter the realm of infinite potential.
learn how to continuously meet the ever-changing, ever-possible now.
Happiness is not thinking you have earned the world’s approval, but waking up each day and feeling so at peace within your own skin, quietly anticipating the day ahead, unconcerned with how you are perceived. Happiness is not having the best of everything, but the ability to make the best of anything. Happiness is knowing you are doing what you can with what you were given.
Practice the pause.
Decide what’s worth your energy, because what you engage with is what you empower.
most of us live mindlessly being pulled to each milestone, each thing we were told to reach for, to move toward, to achieve. Eventually, we look down and realize our hands are empty. Our lives were woven together by a storyline we didn’t write.
Our lives begin the day we choose to follow our inner knowing, even while hearing, at times heeding, the collective knowledge of the first.
The first realization of wisdom is the recognition that there is truth fragmented everywhere, and to delineate the two rivers into wholly good and wholly bad is to deprive ourselves of the depth and beauty
that our hearts are truly trying to...
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You cannot desire what you do not already contain. Desire is a projection outward that is proportionate to potential inward.
There are so many possibilities within this world, so many things to hope for and to aspire to.
There are so very many things one could want, and yet, it is a very specific vision that ...
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There are very few things that excite you in a way that makes you nearly uncomfortable with your wanting of them. Desire is so integral to who you are, it is part of you even if you are not conscious of it—even when your ego chooses to shield you from your awareness of it. What you are waiting on is your own willingness to accept the mountain you must climb in order to pu...
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Maybe you don’t need to find more energy, maybe you just need to find a dream that makes you actually want to get up in the morning.
Maybe you need to find something that gives back more than it takes.
Maybe you need to stop trying to be good at the hundred things that do not light up your soul, and finall...
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You’re not supposed to get far on a path that was never yours to walk.
living life to the fullest is
It’s learning how to take care of yourself, how to make a home within your own skin. It’s learning how to build a simple life you are proud of.
Little by little, you will begin to see that life can only grow outward in proportion to how stable it is inward—that if the joy is not in the little things first, the big things won’t fully find us.
Whatever pain you think you are in right now cannot begin to compare to the peace that will one day come over you.
You will fall in love with life again, and it will be better than it was before, because you will become a different person.
You will become someone who is more capable of appreciating what matters, who will not be as reckless with their choices, who can no longer be ...
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You will strengthen in the most unexpected ways, and from that, your happiness will be even more sincere, even more apparent.
Like the changing of a season, everything shifts slowly until all of a sudden, you are standing firmly in the after, in all you feared would never come. You’re through it, but you’re different, because something also moved through you and cleared out what you didn’t even realize was standing in the way.
The journey is not how you place down what’s weighing on you, but how you learn to stop picking it up.
the strength of your resolve not to begin again—with the habits, the people, the thoughts, the behaviors that you know can only lead to your own self-destruction.
It’s how you release your familiar...
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I hope you will allow yourself to contain more than one truth—that
That our greatest dreams and our deepest fears may coexist, and the existence of one does not negate or lessen the other. That the very moment that you honor where you are with complete surrender, you open to the next experience life wants to offer.
You are an integral, irreplaceable thing. You came here to do what only you can.
What feels on the surface like rejection is often redirection. When you ask for a big life, you cannot keep fighting for a smaller one to stay.
Move toward the people who expand your perimeter of possibility, who believe in your potential just a little bit more than your reality. Move toward the people who remind you of the person you know you’re meant to be, the ones who stretch your soul and make you feel something real. Move toward the people who remind you of what you contain, who help you fall a little more in love with life. Move toward the people who energize you more than they drain you. These little signs are not so little—they are the markers of our soulmates, in all the forms they come.
Declare: I will no longer participate in my own suffering. If I have not one other friend in this world, I will be my own most loyal companion. I will not turn my back on myself. If I am loved by a dozen and not one, I will not focus undue attention on gaining the love of that one. I will speak to myself with compassion. I will not spend my life engaging in things that can only bring about my own unhappiness. From this moment on, I am on my own side.
Be still. Do nothing. It is both the quiet and the noise that writes the symphony, the blank canvas and the paint that makes the picture, the rest and the movement that gives you the wisdom, insight and clarity to press forward more boldly than ever before.
