The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.

If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it’s a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

Feeling bad is not the problem.
The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.

Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,
and start feeling better about feeling bad,
then pretty soon you'll just feel better.

And then you'll feel awesome.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.