Personal Growth

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, 'I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.'
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet.
The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously.
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
In every moment we make a decision—whether conscious or unconscious.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
When we think we have things already figured out, we’re not teachable. Genuine insight can’t dawn on a mind that’s not open to receive it.