Sacred Contracts Quotes

“when you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“manipulation is the art of making another person’s spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“You cannot come to know the depths of the purpose of your life, however, if you are not willing to release those parts of your life that are no longer necessary.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“Each of us has a dark side, along with our own grace and light. The extent to which we can acknowledge the former while maximizing the latter may determine how we choose to fulfill the terms of our Contract. When the shadow side takes over even one person, the consequences are tragically felt by many.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“As long as you remain present, everything you need is”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“If you sincerely believe that God loves you, then you’re not a victim of anything anymore. It’s happening to open up opportunities for us to become more aligned with our higher purpose. I”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“To believe in an invisible order, a divine or implicate order, as quantum physics calls it, or the order beneath the disorder that chaos theory describes, is a healthier, more interesting choice than seeing no meaning in life whatsoever.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“By learning to identify your energy patterns, you will be able to gain a much greater vision of the meaning and purpose of your many experiences and relationships.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“We need never feel either that we have too far to travel or that we have already arrived and can stop practicing the everyday virtues of compassion and mindfulness.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“The Mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark.” THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“For reasons having largely to do with conflicting political agendas and fourteen centuries of animosity between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, we also have a distorted impression of the teachings of Islam. The fact is that Islamic teachings are based on the same moral and ethical principles that lie at the heart of both Judaism and Christianity.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“John O’Donohue talks about the Buddhist tradition of the kalyana-mitra, or “noble friend.” Your noble friend, he says, “will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. No one can see life totally. As there is a blind spot in the retina of the human eye, there is also in the soul a blind side where you are not able to see. Therefore you must depend on the one you love to see for you what you cannot see yourself.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“Our individual souls hum actively within a kind of global soul comprising all life on the planet. Our words, thoughts, deeds, and visions influence our individual health just as they affect the health of everyone around us. As a vital part of a larger, universal spirit, we each have been put here on earth to fulfill a Sacred Contract that enhances our personal spiritual growth while contributing to the evolution of the entire global soul.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“Spiritual transformation results when you move from seeing things strictly in physical, material terms to seeing that there are reasons why things happen as they do—that there is a greater plan behind them.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“Our life’s mission, or Contract, cannot be defined or measured simply by our external life, however. Your purpose is not only your career or hobby or romantic relationship. A Contract is your overall relationship to your personal power and your spiritual power.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“The language of this mystery school is one of spiritual alchemy. With it we’ll learn to transform heavy physical relationships and emotions into spiritual gold. This process involves prayer and contemplation, and it also requires examining all the fragments of your life experiences and relationships. You’ll be researching your archetypes’ energy chemistry—how they express and assert themselves in and through your life. By discovering and working with your individual archetypal companions, your connections to the cosmic forces directing your life, you will consciously affect the course of your life.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“Un contrato no consiste en decir lo que pretendes, sino en pretender lo que dices. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
(Médico, poeta y humorista, 1809-1894)”
― Caroline Myss, El contrato sagrado

“Y sólo es elegido quien lo desea, habiendo escuchado la vida que le espera allí en la tierra, lo bueno y lo malo, sin ninguna sombra de duda.”
― Caroline Myss, El contrato sagrado

“Muhammad’s followers have not always maintained his reforms or abided by his teachings, just as followers of other great mystical leaders, including Jesus, have not.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential