As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.
Interpretation
True fulfillment comes from within, not from external sources.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and inner completeness. It suggests that when individuals realize their inherent worth and that they hold the key to their happiness, toxic or dysfunctional relationships and situations will lose their power, much like bad dreams fade away in daylight.
In practice
During a motivational talk about self-worth, this quote can inspire the audience to seek happiness within.
Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest.
When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.
You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.
When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.
I would always advise young people to follow their star - not my star. They have to live their own life. If they decide they want to go into the investment business, do it, but make it a better business than it is today.
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.
When I find myself in times of trouble _x000D_ Mother Mary comes to me, _x000D_ speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
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