Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.
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 MyssPeople want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: "What is my reason for living?" How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life?
Caroline MyssThe act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
Caroline MyssFinding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing.
Caroline MyssTo feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.
Caroline Myss