Caroline Myss Quotes

I have thoughts, but I am not my thoughts. I have feelings, but I am not my feelings. I have desires, but I am not desires. I have wishes, but I am not those wishes. I have intense pleasure and excruciating pain, but I am neither of those. I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a mind, but I am not my mind. All those can be seen, but I am the seer; all those can be known, but I am the knower; all those are merely objects, but I am a real subject or true self, not any passing parts and pieces and objects and things. I am not thoughts, not feelings, not desires, not body, not mind, not this, not that.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

As the Buddha taught, the cause of suffering is attachment; the end of attachment will mean the end of suffering.

consistent: live what you believe.

their lives in complete harmony and happiness. But intuitive guidance does not mean following a voice to the Promised 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.

You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that’s not authentically you.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone,

your biography — that is, the experiences that make up your life — becomes your biology.

The universal human journey is one of becoming conscious of our power and how to use that power.

Never blame another person for your personal choices – you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.

Each of us has a dark side, along with our own grace and light. The extent to which we can acknowledge the former while maximizing the latter may determine how we choose to fulfill the terms of our Contract. When the shadow side takes over even one person, the consequences are tragically felt by many.

The language of this mystery school is one of spiritual alchemy. With it we’ll learn to transform heavy physical relationships and emotions into spiritual gold. This process involves prayer and contemplation, and it also requires examining all the fragments of your life experiences and relationships. You’ll be researching your archetypes’ energy chemistry — how they express and assert themselves in and through your life. By discovering and working with your individual archetypal companions, your connections to the cosmic forces directing your life, you will consciously affect the course of your life.

manipulation is the art of making another person’s spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.

Gaining an awareness of our own limitations opens us to considering choices we would not otherwise have made.

It’s time to learn the truths that govern our interior soul.