“It’s important to think of self-acceptance as something related to your present state. It means accepting yourself as you are at this very moment. It doesn’t mean, “I would love myself more if I lost ten pounds,” or “I accepted myself when I was 20 years younger.”
“I'm accepting all the emotions. I try to recognize what's going on, because I'm the only one who can feel [it], and so what I'm trying to do is, whenever I feel--discover this negative emotion, I tell myself, 'I believe you. I'm believing myself. This is what happened.' [...] I just accept it and listen to myself.”
“We are each one being with access to multiple dimensions guiding us toward our full human potential. The soul is vast and endless. The ego is actively on guard, yet also necessary to befriend. The body is a rich source of information along the path towards self-awareness, and the psyche works creatively towards permeability across ordinary and extraordinary states of consciousness. The spiritual realm is available, loving, and supportive, should we choose to open ourselves to receive it. Life is a continuum of all things seen and unseen, dancing and interacting as one reality, revealing itself to us as we reveal ourselves to it.”
Source: Guided: Journey into the Unknown to Awaken the Soul and Live in Truth
“It takes a long time to become a person. Longer than they tell you. Longer than I thought. I am grateful for my past, it has given me the present. I want to do well by the future.”
Source: Knock Wood
“Expectations, most often of myself, are the bane of my existence. It’s a constant battle.”
“I was in love with myself, there by the water, but not like Narcissus, unheeding of others. Instead, feeling so at home in my body freed my attention to turn outwards, fully and forever. We are taught so often that love of self is shameful and should be curbed, but I believe now insecurity makes in us a distracting background noise that drowns out the precious here and now.”
Source: The Cure for Sleep
“I believe that it IS possible to live every day in the consciousness that is experienced as unconditional love.”
Source: The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
“We can treat each other with compassion, with unconditional love, and a knowing that such a world enables a completely different experience for each and all of us.”
Source: The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
“I believe that it is the relationship with self that sets the tone for every other relationship in our lives.”
Source: The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
“Both my experiences of being well-loved on the one hand and being loved conditionally on the other influenced the development (or lack) of my self-love.”
Source: The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love