Caroline Myss
To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.Collection: Prayer
For me the information has to remain incredibly neutral. It's what I would call 'ice-like' information. I receive very rapid impressions. I don't have to sit there and concentrate. Because, if I start to really focus, my conscious mind begins to apply data, which is not accurate.Collection: Ice
Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.Collection: Earth
I have come to believe that energy medicine is a practice of healing that is dependent upon the energy of time. Whereas allopathic medicine uses linear time as a fundamental healing measure. Energy medicine needs to understand the dynamic of chiros time, that is the time without time.Collection: Believe
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.Collection: Fall
I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.Collection: Thinking
There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.Collection: Responsibility
I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there.Collection: Family And Friends
I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way the old mystics used to do. I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.Collection: Reflection
If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.Collection: Purpose
If you know your archetypes - and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes, through archetypes - everything changes. Everything. Because you have two things: you can see through one eye which is impersonal, and through the other, which is personal. That's the way the game is written down here.Collection: Eye
Spiritual connection does not mean romanceCollection: Spiritual
Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.Collection: Differences
Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.Collection: Healing
We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.Collection: People
One atom is as purposeful as our planet. What is in one is in the whole.Collection: Atoms
People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.Collection: Self
I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.Collection: Want
I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.Collection: Personality
Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.Collection: God
Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.Collection: Safety
Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as a spiritual document that our soul recognizes.Collection: Spiritual
You cannot make a miracle like love happen.Collection: Like Love
We're actually making not one but 30 choices at a time: Our mind is making a choice. Our heart's making choices.Collection: Heart
The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.Collection: Spiritual
The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.Collection: Cancer
I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing.Collection: Art
I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion. It's not one you look for. You don't want this kind of compassion; it just happens.Collection: Compassion
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion. I mean, I know what I am capable of as a teacher; I know what I'm capable of because of my intelligence. But I also know that that's useless if - I have been humiliated so often, when I think that I can combat the terrors of life with intelligence. Because you can't. It'll bring you to your knees.Collection: Teacher
God, or a source of divinity, put together a map for our lives. That map includes opportunities-not outcomes-but opportunities. And those opportunities are contracts [or] agreements-not that our ego or personality made, but our soul did.Collection: Opportunity
The amount of suffering you actually can feel, you want to be able to do something about it. You want to be able to attend to it, to change the system that is making this happen. Because you are so aware of how unnecessary it is, and therein lies the deeper pain.Collection: Pain
I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.Collection: People
Your biography becomes your biology.Collection: Biographies
I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.Collection: Talking
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.Collection: Spiritual
I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.Collection: Meditation
I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.Collection: Betrayed
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, "I can't believe this happened to me." And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street? It makes them think, "I must be on the wrong path." But what if something you thought was bad was the best thing that ever happened to you? What if that was part of your path?Collection: Believe
I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it.Collection: Humble
I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.Collection: Pain
I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process.Collection: Creativity
One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.Collection: Heart
I think energy medicine is a field that is probably for me the most authentic level of medicine that there is, because it takes into account what I would call 'square one of creation'. Which is where energy meets the process of incarnating. So I think it is very much going to become the dominant practice of medicine in this next millennium. We have no other place to go but there.Collection: Thinking
I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.Collection: Pain
As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.Collection: Life
From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.Collection: Spiritual