Top 227 Quotes & Sayings by Caroline Myss - Page 3

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

Of course you battle despair. It is often a day-to-day fight, but it's one that can be won.

There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed.

Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.

It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.

We are actually more afraid of change than we are of death

Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role to carry the heart energy of the human community, whereas men carry the survival energy.

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.

Your body is your own planet Earth.

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.

Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.

Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

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.

When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels.

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.

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.

In general, if a couple cannot expand their original rules and boundaries to accommodate personal growth, the relationship disintegrates.

You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.

[You should] see everything about your life as a lesson. Ask, "Am I empowering myself?" Even for a tiny thing, like if you're in the grocery store and you're thinking, "Should I buy that?" And your gut says, "You know you can't eat that." If you decide not to listen, you've harmed yourself by blocking your intuitive voice.

Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you.

For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.

We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

Be consistent and live what you believe

I hold myself accountable for my contradictions.

Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential.

You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.

If you have life, you have purpose.

Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.

fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.

People define their life by what they want versus what they have. People get fixated on something and they have to have it, even though that voice inside tells them it's not meant for them.

The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.

You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

You are afraid of your own empowerment as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered.

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.

Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations. Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.

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.

Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.

We grow primarily through our challenges, especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize aspects of our nature that make us different from the family and culture in which we have been raised.

A compromise is done willingly and out of love. You don't go away thinking, "I betrayed myself."

Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.

Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.

In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive.

The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.

People know when they've betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, "You shouldn't have said that" or "You know that's not right."

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.

Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.

You change the rules or you are going under.