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Cheri HuberIf you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
Cheri HuberThe voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.
Cheri HuberHere is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.
Cheri HuberIt is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.
Cheri HuberWhen you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.
Cheri HuberWe have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.
Cheri HuberIf you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.
Cheri HuberGetting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.
Cheri HuberDo something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.
Cheri HuberPeople respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.
Cheri HuberWhen you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
Cheri HuberFear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!
Cheri HuberWhen we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.
Cheri HuberYou have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.
Cheri Huber