DAILY QUOTE
31.07.2022
I don't know anything
with certainty,
but seeing the stars
makes me dream.
(Vincent van Gogh)
30.07.2022
Be the person you needed
when you were younger.
(Ayesha Siddiqi)
29.07.2022
your art is not about
how many people
like your work
your art is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it's about how honest
you are with yourself
and you must never
trade honesty
for relatability
(Rupi Kaur)
20.07.2022
Meditation is not just
a rest or retreat from
the turmoil of the stream
or the impurity of the world.
It is a way of being the stream,
so that one can be at home
in both the white water
and the eddies.
Meditation may take one
out of the world, but it also
puts one totally into it.
(Gary Snyder)
27.07.2022
I won't let pain
turn my heart
into something ugly.
I will show you
that surviving
can be beautiful.
(Christy Ann Martine)
26.07.2022
As I often tell my students;
the two most important phrases
in therapy, as in yoga, are
"Notice that"
"What happens next?"
Once you start approaching
your body with curiosity
rather than with fear,
everything shifts.
(Bessel van der Kolk)
25.07.2022
The amount of strength
it takes to choose to be alone
instead of poorly surrounded,
is extremely underrated.
If you were strong enough
to choose yourself,
I honor you.
(Xavier Dagba)
24.07.2022
It is no measure of health
to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society.
(Jiddu Krishnamurti)
23.07.2022
The most dangerous way we
sabotage ourselves is by waiting
for the perfect moment to begin.
Nothing works perfectly the
first time, or the first fifty times.
Everything has a learning curve.
The beginning is just that -
a beginning. Surrender your desire
to do it flawlessly on the first try.
It's not possible.
Learn to learn. Learn to fail.
Learn to learn from failing.
And begin today.
Begin now. Stop waiting.
(Vironika Tugaleva)
22.07.2022
Whatever you are dealing with,
know that you are capable of
getting through it.
You are a wondrous being
full of electricity and magic.
A freaking gift to the Universe.
Don't you forget it!
(Nanea Hoffman)
21.07.2022
MYSTERIES, YES
Truly, we live with mysteries
too marvelous to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight
or the scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always,
from those who think
they have the answers.
Let me keep company always
with those who say "Look!"
and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
(Mary Oliver)
20.07.2022
What it means to be authentic:
- to be more concerned with truth
than opinions
- to be sincere and not pretend
- to be free from hypocrisy:
"walk your talk"
- to know who you are and
to be that person
- to not fear others seeing
your vulnerabilities
- being confident to walk away from
situations where you can't be yourself
- being awake to your own feelings
- being free from others' opinions of you
- accepting and loving yourself
(Sue Fitzmaurice)
19.07.2022
the crowd will say,
"just be yourself."
and then you will try
and they will say,
"no. not like that.“
instead, listen to your
heart. it wants you to
be the person you are
meant to be.
embrace your weird.
(Topher Kearby)
18.07.2022
The mind is like tofu.
It tastes like whatever
you marinate it in.
(Sylvia Boorstein)
17.07.2022
Sharing how you feel
and what’s real for you
may be scary…
But every time you hold back
truth, you make fear
more important than love.
This is why the depth of
your ability to love will always
be mirrored by your ability
to be honest.
It’s really as simple as that.
(Mark Groves)
16.07.2022
When you parent,
it’s crucial you realize
you aren’t raising a “mini me,”
but a spirit throbbing with
its own signature.
For this reason, it’s important
to separate who you are from
who each of your children is.
Children aren’t ours to possess
or own in any way.
When we know this in
the depths of our soul, we tailor
our raising of them to their needs,
rather than molding them
to fit our needs.
(Dr. Shefali Tsabary)
15.07.2022
I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way
most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy -
and I will not apologize for it.
(Brittin Oakman)
14.07.2022
If your feelings and instincts
were invalidated before,
you may have a hard time now
trusting your intuition.
Healing is learning to trust
yourself again.
It's trusting your inner wisdom
to tell you when something is off
or when something feels right.
(Anna Aslanian)
13.07.2022
A conscious relationship is NOT
made up of two people
free of their pasts.
A conscious relationship is created
by two people who have studied
their pasts and understand what patterns
contributed to the dysfunction of
their former relationships.
When we pick a partner,
we pick their story.
So, as a conscious person
in relationship, we are not only
responsible for our chaotic inner child,
but we are also responsible for helping
our partner get a little lighter
and heal from their story.
This is not codependency,
this is compassion.
(Jillian Turecki)
12.07.2022
Not the ones speaking
the same language,
but the ones sharing
the same feeling
understand each other.
(Rumi)
11.07.2022
I prefer people who are real,
honest and raw.
I don’t want anyone to walk
on eggshells around me.
If your day sucks, I want
to hear about why it sucks,
so I can help make it better.
If you’re not really happy,
don’t fake a smile on my behalf.
I’d rather you spill your guts
with tears every day until
your smile is real.
Because I don’t care about
the show, the disguise,
the politically correctness.
If you’re in my life,
I want you to be
in your own skin.
(Stephanie Bennett-Henry)
10.07.2022
Life is amazing. And then it's awful.
And then it's amazing again.
And in between the amazing and awful
it's ordinary and mundane and routine.
Breathe in the amazing,
hold on through the awful, and relax
and exhale during the ordinary.
That's just living heartbreaking,
soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life.
And it's breathtakingly beautiful.
(L.R. Knost)
09.07.2022
WE ALL HAVE TENDER PLACES
It's easy to say "I love you".
It's easy to talk about love,
and presence, and awareness,
and a deep acceptance of what is.
It's easy to teach,
to say things that sound true,
and good, and spiritual.
But they are just words.
There is a world before words.
When anger surges, as it will,
can you stay close,
and not numb it, or lash out?
When fear bursts in the body,
can you breathe into it,
and not fuse with it,
or run away into stories?
When you feel hurt, rejected,
unloved, abandoned,
can you make room for that feeling,
welcome it in the body,
bow to its intensity, its fire, its presence,
and not attack, or act out,
or call people names?
Can you commit to not abandoning
yourself now that you need
your own love the most?
It's easy to talk about love.
It's easy to teach.
Until our old wounds are opened.
Until life doesn't go our way.
What triggers you
is inviting you
to a deeper self-love.
Can you see?
There is no shame in this:
We all have tender places.
(Jeff Foster)
08.07.2022
There's milestones in healing where
people who've manipulated you
lose their grip. You'll see the ways
they tried to keep you small
when you were growing.
You'll stop trying to get them
to see you because that old you
is no longer there & the new you
doesn’t need their approval.
You will be criticized by people
who are afraid of who you will be
on the other side of your healing.
Heal anyway.
(Nate Postlethwait)
08.07.2022
When you ask for clarity and peace
in your life, don't be surprised
when you start shedding the people,
places, and things that don't align
with what you're asking for.
(Alexandra Elle)
06.07.2022
You can become blind by
seeing each day as a similar one.
Each day is a different one,
each day brings a miracle of its own.
It's just a matter of paying attention
to this miracle.
(Paulo Coelho)
05.07.2022
AN INVITATION
Don't invite people to be
vulnerable if you don't plan
on offering some kind of comfort,
validation, or appreciation when
they do finally take the risk to
share their vulnerability with you.
Don't invite people to be
vulnerable if you don't plan
on ever offering some kind
of vulnerability back.
Don't invite people to be
vulnerable if you don't grasp the
level of courage it takes to expose
one's raw and intimate parts.
Don't invite people to be
vulnerable if your intention is
to judge, condemn, or use their
vulnerability against them.
Don't invite people to be vulnerable
if you're not in a position to listen
and witness them with a gentle,
compassionate, and open heart.
(Silvy Khoucasian)
04.07.2022
Never discourage anyone who
continually makes progress,
no matter how slow.
(Plato)
03.07.2022
Forgive yourself for:
- putting up with all the shit
you didn't deserve.
- the people you allowed to stay too long.
- the lessons you needed to learn.
(Spirit Daughter)
02.07.2022
I tore myself away from
the safe comfort of certainties
through my love for truth -
and truth rewarded me.
(Simone de Beauvoir)
I’m here to remind you, and myself,
that all your feelings are welcome.
All your emotions, your ‘too much-ness’,
your intensity. All the parts of you
that are deep and dark and
challenging and hard.
They are welcome.
They are beautiful and true.
They are healing and powerful.
They are the place from
which the light is born.
They are the reason you can feel
so much love and joy.
(Stephenie Zamora)
