Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life

God answers prayers in three ways: Yes, Not yet, or I have something better in mind for you.

The difference between shame and guilt is the difference between ‘I am bad’ and ‘I did something bad.’ — Brené Brown

He who says he can and he who says he can’t are both usually right. —Confucius

“present moment living”

May I be peaceful. May I be happy. May my heart be open. May I know the beauty of my own true self. May I be healed. And in my healing may others heal.

attachment to outcomes.

Shame lives in the darkest corners of our psyche. It resists healing, mostly because we work overtime to keep it hidden. “Shame is the most private of emotions, and humans have yet to evolve a facial expression that clearly communicates

Give yourself the opportunity of silence and begin to develop your listening in order to hear, deep within yourself, the music of your own spirit. —John O’Donohue

We suffer not from the actual events that happen to us but from the story we attach to those events and then repeat over and over again.

“Does this decision move me closer to, or away from, my Absolute Aims?”