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Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
Everybody is a story.
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Belief traps or frees us.
Cancer changes your whole life.
We are all born to be a blessing.
Our wounds are our sources of growth.
Fear is the friction in all transitions.
Silence is a place of great power and healing.
Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.
It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
All natural processes are long processes and they last.
Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom.
Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation.
When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.
Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.
Is it possible to live so defensively that you never get to live at all?
Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention
When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.
The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.
Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.
Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.
Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.
We may need to let go of our beliefs and ideas about life in order to have life.
Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.
If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.
The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.
What we do to survive is often different from what we may need to do in order to live.
It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.
An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.
It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.
I don't think there's such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.
Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.
A loving silence often has more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
Of course love is never earned. It is a grace we give one another. Anything we need to earn is only approval.
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.
The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.
When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.
A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
My sense is that you can never teach anybody anything, or change anybody in ways that they don't already have in mind.
