Heartfullness Quotes

“Look at your own relationships. Are you more interested in telling someone something, or are you more interested in deeply listening to the other person. Every good relationship needs to have a balance of both. It is important to remember the true gift of listening without judgement or fear to our mate, child, parent, friend or co-worker.”
― Barry Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“Our greatest responsibility is to feel love, which is to know our true selves, and to be genuinely at peace in this world. It is from this inner abundance that we naturally give to others. There is no breathing out unless we first breathe in.”
― Barry Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“Our highest dependence is on God. It is our independence that often keeps us separate from the highest power in the universe. When we feel our complete dependence upon divine love, we feel like a child being held by the most perfect parents.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“Our real independence is our acceptance of our dependence. As long as we hide or ignore our inner child who needs love, we are not free.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“To judge someone is to miss the divinity in that person, to think of them as less than who they really are. To judge is simply to project our own limitations onto another. When we feel compassion for our own limitations, for our own humanity, we never judge others. When we are conscious of our own greatness, we see the greatness of others.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“The way to know love is by first thoroughly experiencing its opposite, and the opposite of love is fear, not hatred. Our real choice in life is to either live in fear or to live in love.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“What two people need more than anything else is the feeling of connecting and the flow of love from heart to heart.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“I want to invite you, whether you are coupled or single, to see longing as a powerful tool for awareness. Truth is, we all long for happiness especially when we feel sad, or for peace when we feel agitated, or health when we are sick, or a lover when we feel lonely. Longing is a natural response of the body, mind or feelings to fill what is needed or desired. It can also be a conscious meditation.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“And so for me, gratitude is the key to happiness. Even in our worst or saddest moments, the act of gratitude can open the door to a different experience.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“If we can enlarge our vision, we will see our world is also in a birth process. The labor pains are not in vain. Something truly wonderful is coming. A precious new world will soon be in our arms.”
― Barry Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“None of us know how much time we have left here on the earth. Besides trying to stay healthy, we can’t do much about when we will die. But we can do a lot about how we live and how we will be remembered. Perhaps it’s time to reflect on how you want to be remembered and then live your life accordingly, allowing for more time to open your heart to those who mean the most to you. Tell your partner, children, family and friends how much they mean to you. Love with passion and enthusiasm. When you are no longer on this earth, you will be remembered for your love.”
― Barry Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“Yes, there will be pain and suffering in this world. Let all of it teach us greater compassion. There is a great spiritual practice: Breathe in the pain, breathe out the love. Try it. Breathe in the pain, not only yours, but also the world’s. Breathe it into your heart where it becomes transmuted into love. Then breathe out that love, making your own unique heavenly contribution to the world.”
― Barry Vissell;MD;Joyce Vissell;RN;MS, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“The love in our hearts makes us more than enough. We don’t need all the other trappings of life to reach out to another. In the end, it is simply our love that wins the prize blue ribbon of life.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“Behind our shame is our pain, and behind the pain is the precious, innocent child that deserves love.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love