Lighter Quotes

“The real you is not your initial reaction. The real you is your response that comes after your reaction. The real you is the one who can weave out of the grasp of the past and produce an authentic response that is based in the present.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“Building the foundation for a better life starts with what is happening in your mind.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“If you spent more time observing than reacting, you would start to notice how the absence of reaction also means the absence of tension. The absence of reaction is essentially a profound ability to let go.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“How many times has your imagination disturbed a perfectly peaceful moment? How many times have your cravings blocked you from fully enjoying the abundance in front of you?”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“A person can be in love and also unprepared to care for that love”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“your immediate reaction does not tell you who you are it is how you decide to respond after the reaction that gives you real insight into how much you have grown your first reaction is your past your intentional response is your present”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“As you become less of a mystery to yourself, you can start to look at other people with a greater sense of clarity and compassion.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“In a society based on speed and productivity, moving slowly is a radical act.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“Love is freedom, while attachment is control.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“Embracing change is the path to alleviating and eventually eradicating suffering.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“Letting go is essentially a profound acceptance of the present moment.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“Self-love is a vehicle we use to travel through our own inner universe.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“It is to everyone's benefit to build a more compassionate world, because when fewer people are hurting, everyone is safer and there is more victory, celebration, and joy.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“pick the path that lights you up the one you know deep down is the right choice stop listening to doubt start connecting with courage do not let the idea of normal get in the way it may not be the easy path but you know great things take effort lean into your determination lean into your mission lean into the real you”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“Healing will not only improve your life, but it will open the door for good things to come to you because the quality of your mind determines the quality of your life.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“Healing begins with the willingness to become an explorer, to enter the vast inner forest that exists within your being, using your awareness as the light that shows you the way. It is a journey that is challenging and sometimes filled with difficulty, because you will undoubtedly come across shadows and parts of yourself that may be hard to fully embrace with self-acceptance. But this is a challenge that can bring unparalleled rewards. When you are able to see yourself clearly, you awaken your true inner power.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“Too often, we think of healing in an external sense—we try to remove the obstacles from our lives without realizing that to make our healing long-lasting, it is more effective to address our own perception and reactions. There is nothing wrong with saying no to difficult people and putting ourselves on a better path that more substantially supports our happiness, but it would be unrealistic to expect that we can remove all difficulties from our lives.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“An identity that is flexible will encourage your flourishing and support you in discovering new parts of yourself. Attempting to stay the same, or to get back to an old version of yourself, is a form of attachment that brings little security and causes much mental tension. If everything in existence is powered by change, our only option is to embrace it and let its movement inspire our evolution.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“The interaction between mental and physical phenomena occurs at incredible speeds—at the conventional level of everyday life, we may seem solid, but, in reality, our being is in a constant state of motion. This means that who we were in the past only remains as a memory; that person is not someone we can truly go back to.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“This idea should not be taken to an extreme; being in community can be very healing and human beings are naturally interdependent. What you should be alert to is the constant avoidance of solitude. There is also nothing wrong with having a friend help you take your mind off something that is too heavy to process at the moment, but a clear sign of being disconnected from yourself is when too many of your relationships are driven by your need to dodge your tension.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“One of the hardest battles to overcome is simply having enough courage and inner security to adopt a lifestyle that supports your evolution and mental health. Once you make this lifelong pledge to grow, your task will be to apply effort so that you can remain on the path. Emotional maturity is a lifelong practice in humility and persistence, because you understand that your immediate thoughts are not always correct and that it is worth your time to patiently investigate the roots of your patterns. At its core, emotional maturity is a matter of improving your communication with yourself. This ongoing commitment to yourself will also enhance outward connection and communication with others.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“Human habit is prevalent in us when our mind focuses too much on the past or the future. Since human habit is strongly connected to survival, our record of the past will be the main filter that we use to assess the world. Rather than taking in what is happening in a fresh way and without judgment, we will make quick evaluations and not have the patience to fully grasp the novel and complex quality of each individual moment. Our thoughts of the future will be similarly molded by whatever happened in the past. And our anxieties and concerns will be on a mission to make sure that the things we hated from the past do not happen again,”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“On the surface, it may look like this is our true nature, because it is currently rampant throughout the world. But the reality is that greed is a conditioned habit that is easily mistaken for our true nature. The selfishness of greed is deeply rooted in the mind, but it is a pattern like any other—it can be observed and released. What was once widely understood as human nature—being greedy, fearful, and even hateful—is not our nature at all. These traits are human habits, conditioned behavior that was imprinted onto us by past generations and past experiences.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“Another thing to watch out for is your own doubt. Doubt is one of the ways that your old patterns will try to defend themselves. The conditioning of the mind wants to just repeat the past over and over again, and it will try to reject new things.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“Real healing is definitely doable and life-changing, but it will take time—great transformations are normally things you will have to work for. And there is nothing wrong with that.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“The only option that supports our inner peace is to find a balance where we live our truth without trying to mold the people around us.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“Serenity is possible when we are no longer carrying the ever-growing baggage of mental images, fueled by craving or aversion, everywhere we go.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“A promising path to security, even though it may seem paradoxical, is letting go. When you are attached to nothing, there is no pathway to hurt. When you are attached to nothing, happiness appears in abundance.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“This truth of suffering guides you inward and makes you wonder where the suffering begins; with proper insight it will point you to your own mental reactions. The truth of suffering may seem overwhelming and unavoidable, but it reflects your own power—it highlights the potential for real freedom and happiness.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

“The mind combats the natural flow of change by allowing most of its motivation to come from craving. Cravings quickly become attachments that try to mold reality into something it is not. Cravings are a rejection of reality as it is, and bring our focus into imagining what is missing or how we wish things would be. When our desire for things to be a certain way combines with tension, craving emerges. When we lock on to a particular idea and make our “happiness” dependent on it coming true, we are no longer living in the present moment—instead, we are striving to control reality. A continuous craving for things to be a certain way is known as “attachment.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future