The more we come in contact with our truth and learn to embrace it with full acceptance, the more we are able to find greater personal harmony.

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

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

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

As the author James Clear put it so succinctly in his book Atomic Habits, “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”

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-acceptance is a deep embrace of reality, letting go of punishing ourselves for the past, and the foundation that balances all the other tools we use for personal transformation.

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

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