By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
Caroline MyssI don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.
Caroline MyssHealing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
Caroline MyssPower is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.
Caroline MyssIt is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.
Caroline Myss