The Simple Abundance Companion Quotes

“When you learn to love and to let yourself be loved, you come home to the hearth of your own spirit,” John O’Donohue declares. “You are warm and sheltered. You are completely at one in the house of your own longing and belonging.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“How you see yourself and how you think other people see you—your body image—is deeply connected to how you feel about yourself.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Welcome to You Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. CLAUDE M. BRISTOL”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Search for the Sacred in your ordinary life, and it will be revealed as extraordinary.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Personally I don’t think soul growth occurs because the student is ready and a spiritual teacher appears. I believe it’s much more the case that when the soul is genuinely ready to release pain, the lesson kicks in.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“In this ideal workshop, “we are shielded from the outer pressures of our life. In a sense we are withdrawing from those pressures, but not in order to escape from them.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“To teach one’s self is to be forced to learn twice. ELLEN GLASGOW, THE WOMAN WITHIN (1954)”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“For You With love and gratitude. My journey would not have been the same without your dear and beloved eyes.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self the very meaning of one’s soul. EDITH WHARTON”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Life is made up of millions of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate them. Whether you’re shampooing your hair, having an argument, writing a memo, making love, talking on the telephone, or eating an apple, savor the sensations involved. All of these moments, whether joyous, routine, or painful, deserve your full attention. In a life well lived, they are the heartbeats.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“So stop trying. Instead of struggling to control the outside influences on your life, start on the inside. How? The key is mindfulness, the ancient practice that teaches us how to live in the present moment, which is perhaps the most powerful way to slow down the relentless pace of our lives.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“How many times have we waited for Spirit to move for us, when in fact Spirit is waiting to work with us?”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“In order to be true to our creative selves, we must journey to our center. Past the conscious sentries in the brain, beyond the barbed wire barricades of the heart, into the trenches of “truth or dare.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Keeping track of how you spend your life energy or your money is a very illuminating exercise; try keeping a record, not of money, but of the time that worrying about money intrudes upon your life. This may help you to better evaluate decisions about when to spend.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Worry is a future-tense emotion. Worry is a projection of a possible—not necessarily probable—scenario. Will there be enough? Where will it come from? How long will it last?”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Our authenticity is found hidden in the small details of our daily round—home, family, work, pleasures. SOMETHING MORE “SMALL THINGS FORGOTTEN”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Affirming our abundance now, by becoming generous givers, dramatically demonstrates our prosperity to the doubter within. Let your authentic self convince her and watch what happens. SIMPLE ABUNDANCE OCTOBER 29”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Constant worry about money blocks your creativity and clear thinking.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Undermining your authenticity by succumbing to someone’s negative opinion is a subtle form of self-abuse. Few of us are immune to the opinions of others.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“That’s why every woman must at some point in her life become courageous enough to turn away from the prism of her relationships as the reflector of her worth.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow believed that the “holiest of all holidays” are not the ones on our calendars, but the ones we observe “in silence and apart.” He called these special days our “secret anniversaries of the heart.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Change happens a choice at a time. We shape our lives through choices we make every day. Above all, being open to change helps. Welcome it.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“The way to take giant leaps and strides toward our authenticity is through small changes. When your heart is open to change, you’re able to recognize the personal signals of encouragement that your Authentic Self is constantly sending.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“What are three small choices or changes you could make now, to begin to enhance your life in big ways? Eat two-thirds of what you customarily eat, to begin to lose weight? Spend one-third less than you usually spend, to save money? Read a singles ad, or write one? Take a four-mile walk? Go to the store and look at new rugs? Speak to a stranger? Roll out of bed in the morning and run around the block? What would you like to do that is new and different?”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Make a conscious choice every day to shed the old. Old issues, old guilt, old patterns, which may involve habits of eating or drinking, patterns of responding, of suppressing anger, old resentments, old rivalries.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“The hallmark of Divine Discontent is that everything is out of kilter, there is no balance. Psychically you’re so shaky you’re accident-prone.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual,” she tells us. “Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Reconsider how caring for our homes can be an expression of our authenticity…. creating a comfortable, beautiful, well-run home can be among our most satisfying accomplishments as well as an illuminating spiritual experience.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“It’s important that we be able to comfort ourselves in times of stress.”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More

“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN”
― Sarah Ban Breathnach, The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More