Unfortunately, it does take pain to wake us up sometimes.

You don't automatically sprout angel wings when you get to the other side - you grow them here.

I know, personally, that I would not be in the beautiful state of awareness that I find myself in daily now - knowing that love is the essence of all that is - had I not had the most painful of all experiences, the loss of my stepdaughter.

Study your thoughts and question them. What am I telling myself that is keeping me stuck or holding me back? What is this pattern of thinking that says I'm less than I am, which is absolute magnificence? It's our thoughts that hold us back.

Unfortunately, it does take pain to wake us up sometimes.

When we ask for advice, we're really looking for confirmation of what our soul already knows.

We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.