“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.” WisdomHappensPainLyingTimeFaithOrderOpportunityFearChallengesWorkBehindsCourageLearningPerceptionExperienceSurfaceCeaseEvolveDemonScareYou ChooseNegativity Book:The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide
“Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.” WantBelieveReasonPainHurtSituationExperienceAngerShameAngryGuiltUpsetAffectedNegativityHolding OnGlue Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.” FeelsHappensPainSufferingTurnsAcceptingStruggleStrangeWillingExperienceThings HappenStrange Things Author:Brenda Shoshanna
“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.” KnowsRealityPainSufferingTurnsGriefKnow HowTaughtPaintingSceneExperienceCourtEdgesMoodShallowCounterfeit Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
“Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.” SoulChristianPainPastEventsLessonsExperienceConstantChristian LoveVerification Author:Mary Augusta Ward