Future Perfect Quotes

“I am my own muse,’ wrote Frida Kahlo. ‘I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that’s a whole different thing. —Lucille Clifton”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“It is your job to love your child, but it is never your child’s job to love you.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“the way you learn a new word and then hear it everywhere. Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is the scientific term for it, and the research strongly suggests it’s not nearly as magical as it feels. The far less sexy truth is that it has to do with both the biological necessity of our being able to quickly and reliably identify patterns as well as the cognitive bias known as the recency effect, which leads us to overemphasize the significance of the most recent knowledge we’ve acquired.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“the secret is learning, somehow, to listen, remain open, and not give a [expletive] all at the same time.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“It’s hard to worry about tomorrow when you don’t know if you can make it through today.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Belief is the support beneath confidence and conviction, what holds them together and keeps them afloat.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“And even though English is both my native language and my livelihood, I tend to bungle the pronunciation of its most random words with more frequency than is charming and use obscure words in circumstances that are just a beat off from their intended usage.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Keep going still, past the greed, past the power hungry, past the bloodshed, and you will find that the religious and spiritual paths end in the same place every time: gratitude, purpose, and compassion.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Some of us fixate on physical improvement and a so-called healthy lifestyle because eating a restrictive diet and maintaining a rigid exercise regimen are easier than addressing our anxieties and shortcomings or admitting our soul purpose continues to elude us. We hunger for control, and so we manifest that control.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Some of us fixate on physical improvement and a so-called healthy lifestyle because eating a restrictive diet and maintaining a rigid exercise regimen are easier than addressing our anxieties and shortcomings or admitting our soul purpose continues to elude us. We hunger for control, and so we manifest that control. I cannot talk about psychics without talking about orthorexia. From the Greek ortho, which means “correct,” and orexia, which means “appetite,” orthorexia is the concept of a “correct diet” or of “perfect eating.” (Anorexia, also from the Greek, translates as “without appetite.”) Orthorexia is not a clinical diagnosis and is not currently recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, but the National Eating Disorders Association defines it as “an obsession with proper or ‘healthful’ eating” and elaborates that “while being aware of and concerned with the nutritional quality of the food you eat isn’t a problem in and of itself, people with orthorexia become so fixated on so-called ‘healthy eating’ that they actually damage their own well-being.” Paging irony! My hyperawareness of nutritional health, physical well-being, and environmental protection (because, no, evidently, I could not pick just one obsession) began with wanting to lessen my carbon footprint by going vegetarian. It seemed innocuous at the time. For”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Finding your soul purpose isn’t a onetime exercise”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“It’s so much easier to do something than to be something.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“she said she had felt a deep well of sadness inside of me and that it was urgent I address it. Then she left the room, and I blinked under the towel, wondering if there was anyone for whom such an observation would not resonate.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“In Wales, we make a burning list on New Year’s Eve. You write down all of the actions of other people that upset you that year and that you don’t want them to continue doing in the New Year. Just the actions. Not the names of the people doing them. That’s important to remember, because otherwise there could be bad consequences! Anyway, you make the list, and then you burn it. It works. Those behaviors just stop! I told this client to make a burning list, and then I told her, ‘Every day for two weeks, write down all the things you are thankful for and all the things you love about yourself.’ The assignments really helped. Actually, she’s almost impossible to be with now. She loves herself too much,” Reesha said and laughed (and laughed).”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Pain isn’t the problem. It’s creating from fear of pain that is the problem.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Money changes everything. Even magic.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“A slick sales angle doesn’t automatically negate a product’s value.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Around the world, more people die by suicide than by wars, homicide, and violence combined.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“New York provides the opportunity to reach out to people, lots of people, who look and think so differently, all the time, spontaneously,”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“2017 has been a dark year, dark not as in evil but as in a year of shadow.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“and provides “constant updates on the state of”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“if you can avoid becoming entangled in the maze of red tape patching the current American health-care system, why on earth wouldn’t you?”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“Andrea could only see clearly when she was looking ahead or behind.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic

“But beware what you don’t believe.”
― Victoria Loustalot, Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic