What's in the Way IS the Way Quotes

“What's in the way is the way. Whatever you are experiencing is a doorway into a more spacious place. So rather than resisting discomfort, you can learn how to open to what you are experiencing and explore it, without any need to have it be any different than what is is.”
― Mary O'Malley, What's in the Way IS the Way

“Life is set up to bring up what has been bound up, so it can open up to be freed up, so you can show up for life.”
― Mary O'Malley, What's in the Way Is the Way: A Practical Guide for Waking Up to Life

“What a valuable gift that is! Imagine that there is a single turtle in all the seas of the world, and that turtle surfaces from the water only once every hundred years. Now imagine there is also a single golden hoop floating on the seas, tossed this way and that by the winds and currents. How often would the turtle, on its once-a-century visit to the surface, put its head through the golden hoop? It has been said that to be given a human life is just as rare as that happening.”
― Mary O'Malley, What's in the Way Is the Way: A Practical Guide for Waking Up to Life

“Anaïs Nin said in her 1961 work Seduction of the Minotaur, “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
― Mary O'Malley, What's in the Way Is the Way: A Practical Guide for Waking Up to Life