Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.

If you have life, you have purpose.

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

You know an action is the correct one for you because you don't think, "This is costing me my power." I can be tired after a day's work at the right job, but I'm not psychically drained to where I feel like I'm losing life.

I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.