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“You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.”

Knows Littles Helping Light Sides Dark Know How Willing Acknowledge Behave Exploring New Thought Loving You Dark Side Self-examination

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“When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Life Is Honest Letting Go Being Honest Get Better Unhealthy Stop Trying Honest With Yourself Unproductive Be Honest With Yourself

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“As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.”

People Knows Home Pain Know How Teacher Doctors Abuse Forgotten Lawyer Vulnerability Nurse Betray

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“Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother.”

Knows Lying Mother Wise Truth Is

Book:In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want

Source: In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want

“I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.”

Knows Way

Book:Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything

Source: Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything

“What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.”

Knows Important Spiritual Law Life Is Process Realizing Principles Impossible Invisible Intangible Process Of Life

Book:One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth

Source: One Day My Soul Just Opened Up: 40 Days And 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength And Personal Growth

“You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.”

Knows Firsts Today Levels Healing Example

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“We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.”

Knows Believe Harm Powerless

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“In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.”

Knows Sometimes Moments Helping Prayer Support Communication Connections Creator Thanks Intimate Help Me Thank You

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“You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.”

Knows Giving Ego Resistance Arrogance Defiance Meanness Nastiness

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“You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.”

Knows Today Speak Gone Issues Lessons Benefits Weeping Healed Live For Today

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“If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.”

Ifs Knows Share Willing Ready Partners Biggest Fear Cellulite

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“We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.”

People Knows Know How Honest Doctors Forgiving Lawyer Being Honest Compassionate Nurse

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“You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.”

Knows World Years Looks Helping Shows Natural Normal Expectations Flow Who I Am Insecurity New Normal

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“I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.”

Source: Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion

“I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.”

People Thinking Knows Different Careers Foundation Immune

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“You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Stills Matter Facts Happens Spiritual Challenges Teacher Planets Difficulty Coaches Trials Ministers Immune Living On Spiritual Teachers

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“A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.”

Knows Men Space Know How Parenting Rage Feminine Bitterness Navigate

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“You are demonstrating to men that they can come back and get their kids. All of those fatherless sons and daddy-less daughters and the men who didn't know how to go back, you are demonstrating to the world that they can.”

Knows Men World Kids Know How He Man Son Daughter Parenting Daddy Demonstrating Fatherless

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“When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.”

Knows Order Parenting

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“Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.”

Knows Moments Light Today Past Ability Mistake Doubt Letting Go Embrace Release Vessel Fear Of The Future Just For Today

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“Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.”

Knows Hard Reason Happens Sides Hurt Healing Letting Go Things Happen Something Better Happens For A Reason

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“When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.”

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“Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.”

Knows Bigger Enlightening

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“Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.”

Knows Doe Use Today Ability Yesterday

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“You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Distance Driving Curves

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“Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.”

Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

“Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.”

“Planning is the only way to keep yourself on track. Plan your moments to be joyous. Plan your days to be filled with peace. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. When you know where you are going, the universe will clear a path for you.”

Knows Way Moments Universe Growth Path Clear Plans Filled Track Planning Where You Are Joyous Your Mom Where You Are Going

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“You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.”

Ifs Knows Self Joy Hurt Satisfaction Peaceful Fullness Being Loved Authentic Self

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“Respect you love one enough to know thay can handle your truth”

Knows Enough Truth Is Handle Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

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“Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.”

Knows Needs Feels Firsts Healing Steps First Steps

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“When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.”

Knows Stories Pain Fear Healed

Book:Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

Source: Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us. That's why we have a weave, we're wearing Spanx and everything is 'fine.' If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.”

Ifs Knows Want Shows Share Willing Ready Fine Who You Are Partners Biggest Fear Cellulite Spanx

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“Spirituality is a journey inward that connects the Self to yourself. When you know who you are from the inside out, when you do what you sense is right for you, when your thoughts lead you to actions that serve others as well as make you feel good, then you have encountered spirituality.”

Knows Feels Wells Self Action Spirituality Journey Who You Are Feel Good Inward Make You Feel Good

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“Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel.”

Knows Feels Humans Soul Enough Emotion Path Alive Growing Your Soul Trust Yourself

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“When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.”

Knows Giving Know How Taken Prove Advantage Receiving Taken Advantage

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“To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.”

Knows Giving May Moments Grows Process Realizing Willing Honor Fit Plot Unfolding

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“Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.”

Knows Important Done Moments Past Order Knowledge Knowing Personality Needed Experience Who You Are Valuable Where You Are Life Experience Speakers Be Who You Are

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“If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.”

Ifs Knows Vision Stuck

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“It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: ‘My cup runneth over.’ What comes out of the cup is for y’all. What’s in the cup is mine. But I’ve got to keep my cup full.”

Knows Want Firsts Mean Self Whole Care Mines Healthy Take Care Cups Disregard

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“Forgive yourself for believing things about yourself that are not true. Forgive yourself for believing that you were anything other than a child of God. Then, after forgiving yourself for believing the things you were told, forgive the people who told you. Forgive them not for what they said or did. Forgive them because they did not know any better.”

People Knows Believe Children Said Forgiving About Yourself They Said Child Of God Forgive Yourself

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“Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.”

Knows Want Pain Our Lives Creating Confusion Disruption Stagnation Muster

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“The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.”

Knows Needs Feels Moments Situation Prove Ego Response Valuable Impress Demonstrating Proving Yourself

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“Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.”

Ifs Knows Dark Walks Rooms Healing Mouths Silent Mysterious Feminine Nurturing

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“Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.”

Knows Spiritual Spirituality Growing Identity Becoming Reflection Evolve

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“There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.”

Knows Giving Done Enough Given Know How Taken Prove Advantage Receiving Taken Advantage

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“Your purpose gave birth to you. It has molded and shaped who you are and what you do. Your purpose is the reason you live and breathe. Your purpose guides your heart, hands, and head. It is alive in you. It is there, within, that you must seek to know it and live it.”

Knows Heart Reason Hands Purpose Alive Birth Who You Are Breathe Guides

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“Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.”

Knows Mean Happened Acceptance Okay Bigger Working It

Book:Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything

Source: Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything

“Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.”

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