Coming Alive Quotes

“We'd like to imagine we can make evil disappear in one, decisive victory. But evil won't cooperate, it reappears endlessly. You attain Goodness by transforming it every time it returns. That's what Goodness is: the ceaseless commitment to transform evil.”
― Barry Michels, Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul's Potential

“Alas for those that never sing, / But die with all their music in them!”
― Phil Stutz, Coming Alive

“When a patient commits to pursuing their potential, it triggers their Life Force, and it’s the Life Force that gives them the vitality to heal themselves. You can bury your symptoms with meds, you can avoid situations that trigger them, but if you want to change yourself in a lasting way, you need to put yourself in forward motion and pursue your potential.”
― Phil Stutz, Coming Alive

“Deprivation is a portal into more life. Not only can you tolerate it, it’s the pathway to living more fully than you ever thought possible. Once you can live through it, deprivation frees you from being enslaved to your impulses.”
― Barry Michels, Coming Alive

“The stronger I got, the more my perspective shifted, and for the first time I saw that constantly criticizing myself was actually convenient and selfish. It gave me the perfect excuse to be obsessed with myself.”
― Barry Michels, Coming Alive