Allison > Allison's Quotes

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
― Michael J. Fox

“Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”
― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”
― Joel Osteen

“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
― Dean Koontz, False Memory

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi

“The deep joy of awakening is a happiness not of merriment or exuberance, but a love that reveals itself precisely when sadness or other difficult emotions are allowed to unfold just as they are. It is a joy of relinquishing, allowing, setting down the burden. The spiritual search, then, is really the cessation of searching. No more manipulating experience in order to feel better (what will it be this time?), no more lurching out of the mind for satisfaction.  But letting go, letting be, and giving up.”
― Jay Michaelson, The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path

“To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is.  Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away. ”
― Jay Michaelson, The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.” This”
― Jay Michaelson, The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path