Top 160 Quotes & Sayings by Gabrielle Bernstein - Page 2

I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.

The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

You have to be ready to receive help, whether that be through a book, a therapist or counselor, or a doctor of some kind. That willingness can lead you through a door to the other side, and that's where healing can truly begin.

Now is the perfect time to make powerful change-your willingness is at an all-time high.

Your energy has far more power than you can even imagine. There is energy in your spoken words, in your emails, and in your physical presence.

Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

Each time we make this shift and choose happiness, we experience a miracle. Our mind shifts from fearful delusions and reconnects to our truth, which is love. Creating these shifts requires a dedicated commitment to choosing love.

When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.

When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow.

I believe in any kind of personal growth practice that can help you gather the tools that you can then apply to resentment, anger, pain, and rage in order to heal your past resentments toward yourself and others, and then deal with them in the moment so you don't carry them for a decade or more.

The moment we begin to celebrate ourselves and focus on our successes is the moment we begin living.

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.

The moment you accept that there's a guidance system supporting you, then you experience a new sense of freedom and peace.

We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.

The people who inspire me most are those who are willing to see the world from a loving perspective. People who perceive obstacles as opportunities and problems as spiritual assignments. People who choose love.

The issue is that if you hold onto the resentment against yourself, you're just going to recreate that destructive pattern in different forms because unconsciously it's still a belief system that limits you.

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.

Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.

Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.

I would suggest that the next generation stop looking for happiness outside of themselves but instead turn inward.

I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.

When we function from a place of positive energy, the world around us becomes more positive.

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you.

If you stay in that new flow of positive behavior, it's hard to revert back to old patterns. But if you do fall off, just forgive yourself, recover quickly, and get right back on.

What you believe, you receive.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.

Your skin will get better, you're going to be more attractive, you're more likely to get a job - all the things you want, you will get as a result of being in a more calm place.

It’s time to let go, be guided and expect miracles.

Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

Letting go of stress means that you can enjoy your life.

We associate stress with action, but how can you take action without stress? You take the right actions with a different energy. Yes, that might affect the speed at which you work or how much you get done in one day, but you'll probably get things done more efficiently.

On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.

Repeating a new behavior is what makes change stick.

Resentment creates stress.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Being less stressed doesn't mean that you stop doing things.

Right now we're in a special and powerful position, because the world is having a spiritual awakening.