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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #22
“Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie I never knew how much holding onto resentment affected my inner peace until I started diving into my inner work. As long as I held onto my resentments towards myself or others, I projected chaos. When I started doing forgiveness…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #21
“Be ACCOUNTABLE for your own joy. Nobody is RESPONSIBLE for YOUR joy, but YOU!” Holly M.R. Dickinson What a beautiful daily reminder from author Holly. I know this, yet I still can use the reminder. My joy is mine. When I commit to living in it, ALL my interactions with others are healthier because my…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #20
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates Such old, yet powerful wisdom. I’ve been shown over and over throughout my life how when people use the past to lead with vengeance, division, and rage, we just create more of it.…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #19
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” Les Brown I need this reminder when those fearful stories come into my head trying to derail me from going after my dreams. Believe me, I was told many of times while writing my first book how hard it would…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #18
“If you catch yourself in the track of fear, just by having that awareness, you can shift your attention into the track of love.” Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love I love how this works! Just bringing attention to my stories wrapped in fear help me to shift out of them. I’ve been catching…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #17
“The love affair you seek is with yourself.” Alan Cohen I love this quote because it reminds me of the the choice I made to take the journey of loving myself. It represents one of the most fulfilling adventures I ever decided to take—a love affair with myself. I became everything I wanted in someone…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #16
“I was once why I don’t participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I’ll be there.” Mother Teresa This was the third quote I used in Letters from a Better Me because it’s how I recognized the power and importance of…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #15
“The most attractive thing about the Buddha was that he saved one person: himself. That’s all he needed to save; when he saved himself, he saved the whole world.” Byron Katie, Hope Beneath Our Feet Yesterday’s quote was the first of the three quotes I used in my book, Letters from a Better Me. This…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #14
“If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight?” Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers I was in a creative non-Fiction writing workshop course when I read these powerful words. It was 2015 and I was just about to graduate Eckerd…
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Quotes That Make My Soul Sing #13
“The other side of resisting fear is freedom.” Tara Brach, PH.D., Radical Acceptance In a world of avoidance, there is great pain. Pain to our bodies, minds, souls, and relationships with both ourselves and others. Even our relationship with the God of our understanding becomes a prison when we resist what is really going on…
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