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Help me to see new ways of being as I release old ways of seeing.
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Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.
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The greatest gift of surrender was that it helped me to realize that it is arrogant of me not to forgive myself when God forgives me.
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COMPARISON IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE SELF
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Once you become willing to let it all go, God will open a new space in your heart and rewire your brain to know, receive, and express love in healthy ways. I forgive myself for believing that what I made up about who they were is the truth I had to live with for years of my life.
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FORGIVENESS IS A SILENT, INTIMATE TEACHER. SHE IS ALWAYS READY TO BRING THE LESSONS YOU NEED, WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO LEARN.
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Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place.
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Trust is an essential soul need. The psychological injuries and emotional wounds we experience as children affect our soul. When the soul does not develop within the experience of trust, there remains within us a child who is in a constant search for attention, understanding, love, respect, and possibly justice for her abuse or neglect. These needs, when left unmet and unaddressed, will fester and grow into disruptive and/or dysfunctional b..
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Self-trust is about having an inner voice, being connected to that inner voice, learning how to hear and follow that voice, and doing the personal healing work required to make sure that the voice you hear brings your best interests to the forefront of your mind. Connecting
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The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.
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Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.
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Some of us will plant the seed and never see the plant.
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Judgment is harsh and mean and meant to hurt, as if the pain of what we do or say will slap others into our way of believing.
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I now understand that our life experiences come forth from our souls and that nothing really happens to us; it all happens for our benefit.
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Honor your own Self. Meditate on your own Self. Worship your own Self. Kneel to your own Self. Understand your own Self. Your God dwells within you as you.
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The impact of a lack of self-acceptance is intensified in the relationships between and among women.
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When you spend more time being angry, hurt, and upset about what happened, you pretty much barricade the door of what is possible.
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Forgiveness frees the forgiver.
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THE REASON YOU KEEP ATTRACTING THE ONES WHO LEAVE IS BECAUSE YOU EXPECT THEM TO DO SO.
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Father, let me remember You are here, surrounding me with Your everlasting Love, perfect peace, and joy. I pivot my attention to the natural dwelling place of my mind, my natural awareness. These are the thoughts that move and keep my mind safe in You, free of the ego's ideas that hurt me. Let me remember You are here, and I am not alone.
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WHEN YOU HAVE A PAYCHECK-TO-PAYCHECK MENTALITY, IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING
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The heart and the spirit also shed. They shed the emotions and experiences that we no longer need. They shed the things that stunt our growth. This, too, is an invisible process. Yet because of the energy involved, the emotional energy, we often feel the emotional and spiritual shedding. It feels as if we are dying. We are. Just like the flowers and the trees, we are dying to an old identity. This shedding, or death, is not the end of us. I..
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WHEN WE HAVE UNFORGIVING THOUGHTS ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING, IT BLOCKS THE POSITIVE FLOW OF GOOD INTO OUR LIVES.
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Until you trust you, you will be suspicious, disconnected and dishonest with yourself and everyone else
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we fear solitude. We mistake it for loneliness and attempt to fill the emptiness, the silence with activity and noise and people. But the solitude of Snapper Five provided Rhonda with the silence she needed to hear herself think. She was able to become still and allow her feelings about herself to surface. Through the silence, she became aware of her fears as well as her strengths. She learned that she possessed faith, and she learned to tr..
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When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.
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Sharing what you've learned and helping others is a good source of renewal.
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An unpeaceful mind cannot hear God. Any unpeaceful feeling is the indicator that what I am thinking is forgivable.
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I had loved one man most of life only to have him leave me not once or twice but four times for someone else.
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Let yourself remember and visualize the ways you have hurt others. See the pain you have caused out of your own fear and confusion. Feel your own sorrow and regret. Sense that finally you can release this burden and ask for forgiveness. Take as much time as you need to picture each memory that still burdens your heart.
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Before you can live a part of you has to die.
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When I asked Shaheerah why she believes it is so difficult for people to trust God, she said, "Because God is intangible and invisible, it is easier to believe what you been told about God than it is to learn about God through experience." As"
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Relieving pain, like building trust, is an inside job. It is only when you have been broken down mentally, emotionally, or spiritually and choose to stand up and keep moving that you can know the true meaning and value of trust. Trust is a function of choice. Trust grows in hearts that have often been broken open by pain. Trust can unfold in response to devastation, disappointment, and, more often than not, a depth of dysfunction that threa..
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There is only one way to shift your consciousness from painful conditional attachments to peaceful unconditional love. You must create new love expectations based on honour, respect & support. Honour what you feel by believing you can have what you want. Respect where you are in your life, understanding that when you are ready to move forward you will. Support yourself by refusing to accept less than you want. This is your foundation.
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I also learned that when we have unforgiving thoughts about anyone or anything, it blocks the positive flow of good into our lives.
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Each person represents a microcosm of the world in which we live--where anger and fear, confusion and isolation, lack of faith and a wanton disregard for the divine process of life causes people to act against their true nature. Since our true nature is to be trusting, every small violation of individual trust creates a ripple effect that ultimately impacts the entire world in which we live. That's how important we are as individuals, and t..
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I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security." The"
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There is a healing power to releasing what was that allows you to receive what is and will always be--more than enough.
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The challenge with those whom we love is that they are the only ones who can get close enough to us to cause us heartbreak.
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If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having. -- Deborah Gregory
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Unfortunately, it is normal to get stuck on the heartbreak, and in doing so miss the lessons.
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It takes a great deal of energy to doubt yourself constantly, and even more to beat yourself up--or down--even if it's only in your own mind. While you are engaged in mental or emotional battery, you are bound to feel exhausted. In the midst of mental or emotional exhaustion, the negative ego can and will trick you into believing that you now have a valid justification for why you should not, cannot, and do not trust yourself. This is what ..
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The key to learning and knowing that we can trust God is to recognize that there is a spirit within us that is connected to God. It
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No matter what, "I forgive everyone for everything!"
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