No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
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No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.
I cherish these epiphanies of self-worth the most, and seeing someone take intelligent steps toward joy, walking away from the obligations and illusions that cramp their heart’s desire. This I know to be true: We are craving to play bigger, to go deeper, to shine. anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you —David Whyte, p
... See moreDanielle LaPorte • The Fire Starter Sessions
One way or another, you come to face the truth: Everything you acquire is eventually lost. Every body you hold eventually dies. You have been waiting to give your deepest gifts, waiting to love without holding back, while your life—everyone’s life—passes. You have bartered your true destiny for false comfort and muted agony. You can stop waiting. W
... See moreDavid Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Indeed, your world can break down precisely because you live on after the death of everything you love. This “death” can be much more painful and fearful than the prospect of your own death, not least because it is a death that you have to survive. Hence, as long as you are attached to someone or something that you can lose, you are susceptible to
... See moreMartin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their Sweetn
... See moreLosses aren’t cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing. A real tragedy? That’s the loss of the heart and soul themselves. If you’ve abandoned yourself in the effort to keep anyone or anything else, unlearn that pattern. Live your truth, losses be damned. Just like that, your heart and soul will return
... See moreDanielle LaPorte • The Fire Starter Sessions
But here’s what we do know as we age: we come to realise that ‘out there’ is not a place in the world- it is a place in our heads. It’s an emotional state of mind that requires risk, vulnerability and the timid hope that what you dream of doing might just be of value to the world. Those are hard things to reconcile as you get older. Risk can seem f... See more