If you accepted the truth of the following statements by Dr. David R. Hawkins, how would your life change? What would be different about the way you looked at the world, at other people, and at yourself?
The world is actually entertainment. Like amusement, it is meant to be worn lightly. Heaven is (more…)
"Spirit of the Elements" by Josephine Wall (josephinewall.co.uk)
Thinking and speaking this way is a powerful reminder that who you are is far more than just your body. What’s more, it helps you (more…)
The moment you recognize the blessings inherent in your suffering, the greater your capacity to transcend your anguish, even as grief and pain threaten to consume you.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
No matter how lost, scared, vulnerable, or powerless you feel, you can treat this very moment as a portal to peace, wisdom, and healing.
This place where you are right now, God (more…)
When you live inauthentically, when you do not heed the urgings of your heart, when you live somebody else’s idea of what your life should be, the unavoidable clash between your true self and the life that you lead cannot help but wreak havoc on your physical health.
When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
Anaïs Nin
Gaining clarity about the emotional root of an illness, and tending to it as well as to your physical symptoms, often accelerates healing.
You can’t recover from (more…)
Suffering cannot be compartmentalized. Refuse to deal with your pain and you poison every aspect of your life.
When you deny emotional pain, everything you do or think as well as your relationships become contaminated with it. You broadcast it, so to speak, as the energy you emanate, and others will pick it up subliminally.
Eckhart Tolle
Ignore your suffering, numb it with distractions and addictions, and the sentry (more…)
Nobly enduring suffering bestows wisdom; and wisdom provides insight into the value and the necessity of suffering.
God, whose law it is that he who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Conversely, drowning in self-pity defeats the purpose of your suffering and brings (more…)
Fighting your suffering disrupts the flow of life. Surrender to your suffering and the gates of understanding swing open.
Suffering is magnificent music—the moment you give ear to it. But you never listen to it: you always have a different, private, stubborn music and melody in your ear which you will not relinquish and with which the music of suffering will not harmonize.
Hermann Hesse
No matter how deeply you are wounded, there are great (more…)
No two people suffer alike or for the same reasons. What causes heartbreak in one person may spur nothing but wistfulness and gratitude in another.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain
View suffering as an enemy and you distance yourself from the (more…)
The moment you recognize the blessings inherent in your suffering, the greater your capacity to transcend your anguish, even as grief and pain threaten to consume you.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
As inspirational author and speaker Andy Andrews humorously (more…)
Every staggering loss you have endured has played a major role in shaping who you are. Pain and purpose walk hand in hand.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Rainer Maria Rilke
By simple virtue of enduring what must (more…)
Our greatest lessons are often embedded in our greatest pain. We cry to the heavens, unaware that we are growing stronger and wiser even as we plead for mercy.
We rarely gain a high or larger view except as it is forced upon us through struggles which we would have avoided if we could.
Charles Horton Cooley
You would not be the person you are today if you had never been brought to your knees by the vicissitudes of life.
If life teaches us anything, it may be that it’s necessary to suffer some defeats. Look at (more…)
As you live more consciously, you tackle each obstacle with equal parts detachment, discernment, and determination, recognizing that it contains divinely encoded instructions designed to further your growth.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
The higher your consciousness, the greater the (more…)
Odds are that your search for deeper meaning and purpose did not kick into overdrive until a crisis turned your world inside out and upside down.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. Lewis
As awareness grows, you realize that adversity may be a signal that what (more…)
Though adversity may scramble the puzzle pieces of your life, it arrives bearing a gift—a shift in consciousness that deepens your understanding and appreciation of Universal forces.
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature’s way of forcing change—breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
Susan L. Taylor
The value of adversity has long been the stuff of legend. In the Bhagavad Gita, Kunti, mother of heroic (more…)
Caroline Myss
In this insightful six-minute video, Caroline Myss responds to a question from her longtime collaborator, Dr. Norm Shealy, to speak of our relationship to (more…)
An abiding faith in the perfection of God’s plan may be of little comfort when your body is wracked with unbearable pain or when the world is not large enough to contain your grief.
When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
Unknown
But it is the light of that faith, no matter how dimly it flickers in the darkness of your despair, that carries with it the promise of a better day.
However long the night, the dawn will break.
African proverb
In the throes of despair, the idea that time will heal your pain (more…)
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