Caroline Myss Quotes

archetypes are the psychic lenses through which we view ourselves and the world around us.

Having to say, “If this is what I must accept, so be it,” can feel like chewing glass, but not being able to accept what you cannot change is like having to swallow those shards of glass.

Literal interpretation creates separation, whereas symbolic interpretation — seeing that all of them address the identical design of our spiritual natures — brings us together.

Land. It means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery.

Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?

That afternoon I saw that for an alternative therapy to succeed, the patient must have an internal concept of power — an ability to generate internal energy and emotional resources, such as a belief in his or her self-sufficiency.

The wounded child sees the Divine as operating a reward and punishment system, with humanly logical explanations for all painful experiences. The wounded child does not understand that within all experiences, no matter how painful, lie spiritual insights. So long as we think like a wounded child, we will love conditionally and with great fear of loss.

I have often imagined that people who carry on about how God “thinks” human beings should behave must appear to be complete fools to the divine.

Questions for Self-Examination 1. How do you define creativity? Do you consider yourself a creative person? Do you follow through on your creative ideas? 2. How often do you direct your creative energies into negative paths of expression? Do you exaggerate or embellish “facts” to support your point of view? 3. Are you comfortable with your sexuality? If not, are you able to work toward healing your sexual imbalances? Do you use people for sexual pleasure, or have you felt used? Are you strong enough to honor your sexual boundaries? 4. Do you keep your word? What is your personal code of honor? of ethics? Do you negotiate your ethics depending upon your circumstances? 5. Do you have an impression of God as a force that exerts justice in your life? 6. Are you a controlling person? Do you engage in power plays in your relationships? Are you able to see yourself clearly in circumstances related to power and money? 7. Does money have authority over you? Do you make compromises that violate your inner self for the sake of financial security? 8. How often do survival fears dictate your choices? 9. Are you strong enough to master your fears concerning finances and physical survival, or do they control you and your attitudes? 10. What goals do you have for yourself that you have yet to pursue? What stands in the way of your acting upon those goals?

We do indeed weave our spirit to the events and relationships of our lives. Life is as simple as that.

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

John O’Donohue talks about the Buddhist tradition of the kalyana-mitra, or “noble friend.” Your noble friend, he says, “will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. No one can see life totally. As there is a blind spot in the retina of the human eye, there is also in the soul a blind side where you are not able to see. Therefore you must depend on the one you love to see for you what you cannot see yourself.

The unconscious life is just that — unconscious. You aren’t even aware that you aren’t aware of anything. You just think about the basics of life — food, clothing, money. It never occurs to you to wonder about for what purpose were you created. And then, once you ask that question, you can’t stop asking it again and again. It always leads to another truth.

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.