When you embrace the messages of each aspect of your shadow, you begin to take back the power you've given to others and form a bond of trust with your authentic self. The voices of your unembraced qualities, when allowed into your consciousness, will bring you back into balance and harmony with your natural rhythms.

It takes compassion to own a part of yourself that you've previously disowned, ignored, hated, denied, or judged in others.

Keeping your word is essential to your plan for change. What you say to yourself and others does count. If you tell yourself that you are going to eat healthier foods and don't do it you are broadcasting to yourself and the universe that you can't be trusted.

The key is to understand that there is nothing we can see or perceive that we are not. If we did not possess a certain quality we could not recognize it in another.

We had to acknowledge ourselves every day for all the good we'e done. We had to take inventory of our lives and applaud our accomplishments.

Look to see how you've benefited from your wounds.

Without commitment the universe cannot bring forth the events we need to realize our desires.

If you don't see yourself as a microcosm of the entire universe you'll continue to live your life as a separate individual.

To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: