When you pursue a career that pulls you away from your true self, your talent and enthusiasm will quit on you like a bored intern. Every task will feel as distasteful as poisoned food, and leave you just as weak. You’ll probably have a sequence of mistakes and unlucky breaks at work (actually these are lucky breaks, your true self stopping you from

Learning to hold—and repeat to yourself—all the supportive things you wish to hear from others puts you back in alignment with your inner teacher, your sense of truth.

Getting out of a triangle drama is also simple, though not easy. It hinges on one act of integrity: acknowledging that we’re capable of choosing our responses to other people and situations, no matter what.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”

“Belief is just someone saying something near you enough times.” Our miraculous minds can take strings of sounds, attach them to images and emotions, and honestly conclude that the abstract ideas they convey are Universal Truths.

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” When we focus on creative response rather than on blame and defense, fear drops from our attention.

Our culture defines “success” as rising through bureaucracies, so these people didn’t understand why they’d suddenly gone from high performance to crashing and burning. But from my perspective, these “inexplicable” failures made obvious sense: Edgar loved literature, not running a magazine. Chloe loved being out in the woods alone, not sitting arou

If you’ve ever found yourself snapping at someone you dearly love, or sitting down to complete a work project only to spend five hours shopping for home tattoo kits online, it’s probably because you’re internally divided. You’re trying to act in ways that don’t feel right to you at the deepest level. Whenever we do this, our lives begin to go pear-

Your true self, by contrast, is pure nature. It doesn’t give a tinker’s damn who wore it best, or if anyone wore it at all. Olympic medals and Pulitzer Prizes interest it only because they’re shiny. Your true nature loves things for their capacity to bring genuine delight, right here, right now. It loves romps, friends, skin contact, sunlight, wate