In many ways, the journey of healing is not so much a chapter in your story, but changing the way you write the entire book. It’s a shift in the way you move through the world, one in which you move from being disappointed that life has not met your every expectation to expanding your vision to perceive all of the magic, the wonder, the awe, the he

Attachment ultimately teaches us who we really are, because in the process of trying to keep the relationship intact, we sacrifice a lot of our own values and sense of self. The extreme pain of a loss of attachment is not the actual loss of the person as it is the loss of what we thought our future would be.

Deep down, the relationship that ended was a distraction from the relationship you don’t have with yourself.

What we envy in others is actually a cue for us to become clearer about what we want to create for ourselves. We aren’t actually trying to say they don’t deserve that, but rather, I want to feel like I deserve that, too. Jealousy reveals our own self-suppression.

If you’re willing to believe that something might be possible for you — it already is.

Instead of fearing this process, we should learn to honor it, because it means that something greater is often waiting for us on the other side.

You were awakened to reality, which is sometimes cold, and sometimes hard, and sometimes brutally unfair.

It’s hard to let go, but it’s harder not to.

You will have to become the kind of person who makes a living doing what they love, not an amateur trying to see if they could maybe get by.