We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.
Sonia ChoquetteRead
If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what’s in your hand.
Interpretation
To embrace new opportunities, you need to let go of your current attachments.
This quote emphasizes the idea that in order to pursue new experiences and opportunities, one must be willing to release their hold on existing priorities and possessions. It highlights the importance of letting go of the familiar to make room for the unknown, which can ultimately lead to personal growth and discovery.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.
People frustrate us and let us down. Not because we aren't lovable, but because we rely on them to do our job of loving us. We must accept that our lovability and worth doesn't come from others. It comes from within.
Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel.
Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.
You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time. Breathe. Let the worry go. Breathe. Allow the love and intuition in.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
We must become the change we want to see.
I had to change. I had to change was the thought that drove me in those months of planning. Not into a different person, but back to the person I used to be—strong and responsible, clear-eyed and driven, ethical and good. And the PCT would make me that way. There, I’d walk and think about my entire life. I’d find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.
The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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