Byron Katie
(via spiritualgateway)
When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, then you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.
“One of the greatest calamities of this agonizing civilization is the vice of alcohol. During their youth, many people surrender to the vice of alcohol, thus when their mature age arrives, they have not formed a home, they have not made a fortune, they do not have a lucrative profession, because they live from bar to bar begging for liquor, and become frightfully horrible, disgusting, and miserable people.”
Victor Frankl, from “The Doctor and the Soul,” published c. 1946 (via bulgakeov)
What is to give light must endure burning.
Adyashanti (via flowgently)
The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be free.
David Deida
If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.