“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”— Eckhart Tolle, goodreads.com
“There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its contents, not even the knower of the field. It is your idea that…”— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, thelazyyogi.com
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before -- more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“We avoid feeling anything because we have more or less been taught that our feelings have lives of their own. That they'll carry on forever if we give them even a moment of our awareness.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're seeing issues you struggled with as a kid reappear in your adult life, and while on the surface this may seem like a matter of not having overcome them, it really means you are becoming conscious of why you think and feel so you can change it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The crazy things about eating disorders is that it's so hard to understand unless you have one yourself....People say 'just eat.' I can't.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“I don't feel the my life is in danger. It's a fight for my sanity more than anything. The eating disorder is making me sick, and I'm ready to give it up, but I have nothing else in my life right now.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“I want to be happier and the only way to be happier is to be skinny.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“I want to be so skinny that no one can ever say anything to me again about my weight.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.”— Holly Elissa Bruno, amazon.com
“We want to hear, we long to hear, ‘I screwed up. I will do my best to ensure that it will not happen again.’ Most of us are not impressed when a leader offers the form of Kennedy’s admission without its essence, as in Ronald Reagan’s response to the Iran-Contra scandal, which may be summarized as ‘I…”— Carol Tavris, goodreads.com
“We all deal with fear of loneliness. But I think this fear dies a natural death when it reveals itself as universal. All living creatures are meant to be entwined, even plants, even the small particles in dust. We spend though our entire lives learning the natural skill that society lets us forget:…”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“i recommend never allowing yourself to become fully aware of the realities of your existence”— Oscar Bruno d'Artois, onmetatron.org
“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, amazon.com
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com