Quotes About Empowerment

Success commence within self. Non one is coming to transform your life. You are the merely architect of your life. Therefore, rise up, hope for the best and act forthwith.

That's the difference between us and white folks, she told herself. They don't stop to say "I can't" or "Should I," they just do.

Michel, the tight-jawed president of the Black Student Caucus, who called her "little sister" and would have had potential if he'd remembered to sprinkle in some fun between bouts of righteous indignation.

All liberation is loneliness

Stayed is a woman's story of discovery and acceptance, redefined by Tanya Anne Crosby's dramatic storytelling,

Jon Kabat-Zinn reminds us, "There is far more right with us than wrong with us." Mindfulness gives us a way to reconnect with that basic rightness, even at times when "what's wrong" looms large.

When we examine the thoughts that empower a schema—like looking at a lab specimen under a microscope—their irrationality becomes fairly obvious.

Opening up a space in her mind gave her more choice in the moment.

Fortunately, even if we can't control the circumstances that lead to such thoughts, we have the ability to free our minds from their hold.

one focus for healing is to challenge your fears and, to the extent that they have held you back, gain more freedom in your activities.

By mindfully monitoring your thoughts rather than letting them dictate how you behave, you will start to win emotional freedom from your fears.

May I accept things as they are. I wish you happiness and well-being, but I cannot make your choices for you or control the way things are.

Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom.

As a friend of mine put it, "Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing." When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.

The more you Nurture yourself, the more you'll find you're living from your future self—the best of who you are.

I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness. Walt Whitman

Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing." When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are.

Although the trance of feeling separate and unworthy is an inherent part of our conditioning as humans, so too is our capacity to awaken

May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Find the joy where you can, and maintain the rage where it's needed.

If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins