When we are honest with ourselves about what is not serving us, we can redirect our energy.

Whenever your ability to see yourself increases, so, too, does the patience you have with the people around you.

a structural problem: Having very little money filled their minds with tension and they often projected that tension onto each other.

Though all human beings have very different histories, we all live through the same spectrum of emotions.

Healing is when you intentionally decrease the tension you carry in your mind.

What makes self-love powerful is that it is not just a way of seeing ourselves, but a series of actions that continuously align us with a greater vision of who we are growing into.

Self-love helps us build internal cohesion so that we are no longer far away from ourselves.

Without self-acceptance, any tough thing we come across would quickly stall or end our journey or have us running back to known territory.

we all have a hard time remaining in the present. During difficult moments, our past will reemerge to try to help us make sense of a new experience by matching it to our past, but that then often activates old reactive patterns. Additionally, all of us at some time experience fear, greed, jealousy, anger, and other emotions that thicken our conditi