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6fecfcb suffered, to forgive the one who inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. --MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Iyanla Vanzant
932ff8b Today's practice is about clearing and releasing the hurts, wounds, and judgments you may hold about or against women. Our experience and expectations of women begins with our mothers. Chances are if we have any judgments about our mothers, they will extend to other women. Iyanla Vanzant
0226464 NO CHOICE IS A BAD CHOICE; EVERY CHOICE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEARNING TO UNFOLD. Iyanla Vanzant
49e32f5 A MOTHER IS HER CHILDREN'S FIRST TEACHER. HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER CHILDREN BEGINS WHEN THEY ARE IN THE WOMB. Iyanla Vanzant
dc77c90 Open yourself to consider the glorious possibilities that lie just beyond how you have seen, held, and related to the masculine energy of the Creator that is embodied in all men. Iyanla Vanzant
707892c THE MEN YOU HAVE LOVED OR THOSE WHO REFUSED TO LOVE YOU Iyanla Vanzant
0518066 Today's Forgiveness Practice is about forgiving the judgments, hurts, and wounds that may be buried in your consciousness and are engraved into your mother's name. You will be forgiving all thoughts, beliefs, memories, and experiences you may have judged as wrong, unfair, unkind, or unloving. Iyanla Vanzant
8966e3c for the supervisor's failure to promote us, for Boo-Boo's cheating, and for the fact that we just can't seem to get our lives Iyanla Vanzant
d71ae10 I WONDER IF PEOPLE REALIZED THE PAIN THEY CAUSE WITH THEIR MEAN SPEAKING AND JUDGMENTS Iyanla Vanzant
bc3ed71 the form of gossip, betrayal, and unwarranted judgment. Women are also more prone than men to compare themselves to one another. Iyanla Vanzant
ccad9b9 Although frustrated and angry, I was determined not to give up on forgiveness or myself. Iyanla Vanzant
39804ca What if forgiving my mother also means forgiving myself? Iyanla Vanzant
ca31a2b Surrender is a state of mind and being that opens the mind and heart to divine revelation. Iyanla Vanzant
773f7f7 forgive myself; and ask them for forgiveness. More important, I had to see the best in them, no matter what they chose for themselves. Iyanla Vanzant
05d5ab3 thinking that I had done something Iyanla Vanzant
cba0b51 possibilities You have in store for me.Today, Iyanla Vanzant
c034d7b The story was no longer important to tell. Iyanla Vanzant
1c521ac dislike in ourselves. Iyanla Vanzant
f41ddf3 there comes a point where a person's psycho-social history is of little or no consequence. Iyanla Vanzant
9d6e171 DREAMS THE CHILDREN HAVE FOR Iyanla Vanzant
73ae05f I had watched my father, my uncles, my brother, and even my son--only on occasion--treat the women in their lives less than honorably. Iyanla Vanzant
1df973d INCREASES OUR CHANCES TO RECEIVE WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING. Iyanla Vanzant
31aa4b4 and over, the job you go to day in and day out, the status of your bank account. Now consider what you believe is missing in your life . . . Everything you are experiencing is a function of your files, or what you are thinking. Another way to increase your awareness of your dominant negative thought patterns is to closely examine what you think about other people. Here is a series of truths that is often difficult for people to recognize or.. Iyanla Vanzant
17b9d18 ACCEPT ABOUT OURSELVES. Iyanla Vanzant
b033e7c we really want to see change in the world and find a common, sacred meeting place, we can practice forgiveness rather than against-ness. Iyanla Vanzant
50cb66c The greatest service I can offer is ... willingness to do things in a new way. Some of us are given the awesome task of breaking our family's pattern of poverty, pain, suffering, ignorance and fear. Some of us come into life for the sheer purpose of guiding our family into a new way of thinking, living and being. For this reason, your family may think you are weird or different. They may accuse you of doing things that are not right. They m.. Iyanla Vanzant
bb14e82 Anything and everything we experience is a function of what and how we think. How we think determines our feelings and behavior. How we behave determines the nature and quality of our lives. This also means that any emotional investment (i.e., feelings) that are attached to a particular thought pattern will resurface each time the pattern is engaged or entertained. To neutralize and eventually eliminate an unconscious, unproductive pattern .. Iyanla Vanzant
9ddd3c0 Prayer is the way we communicate with God. Affirmation is the way we reprogram the mind. Iyanla Vanzant
2954a88 opinions, and convictions when they do not mirror what I believe. Iyanla Vanzant
7cf1dbc If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it.' - Iyanla Vanzant Emma Sadleir
742bd58 JEALOUSY, AND RIDICULE. Iyanla Vanzant
ee62d8b yourself, from whom you need forgiveness. Once you have completed the letter, you are encouraged to transform it by burning it, burying in, tearing it into pieces, flushing it, or deleting it from your computer. With any of these actions, you are not destroying the letter. Instead, you are transforming it and the energy it carries. Iyanla Vanzant
785aa55 But then again, if I can only attract what I expect, what was I to do with all of the hurt, sadness, sorrow, anger, and fear that had built up as a result of what I had seen Iyanla Vanzant
ec515e2 Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts. Write about the feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long. Then, ask the Holy Spirit to transform the anger into a passion for life. Today I am devoted to healing unresolved and unexpressed anger! Iyanla Vanzant
0e49169 my freedom. And So It Is! Iyanla Vanzant
5d9e2d0 aggressive, or fine but the timing was just not right. Iyanla Vanzant
8da6bf8 longer than it was necessary or productive to do so. Iyanla Vanzant
ccc635d darkness, you bring in the light. Iyanla Vanzant
62dd2f7 used the sordid details of my stories as an excuse to talk badly about men, judge them, mistrust them, expect little from them, and give of myself begrudgingly as I waited for the axe to fall on my neck. Iyanla Vanzant
3cbd918 Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?" -- Iyanla Vanzant 56." -- Stephen W Gardner
f5a80c0 Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself. Your partner does nothing more than reveal your stuff to you. Your fear! Your anger! Your pattern! Your craziness! As long as you insist on pointing the finger out there, at them, you will continue to miss out on the divine opportunity to clear your stuff. Here is a meantime tip--we love in others what we love in ourselves... Stephen W Gardner
2b256aa WALLY AMOS ONCE said, "If you're going through hell, don't stop to take pictures!" But that's exactly what we do, isn't it? We maintain a mental catalog of every detail of what has happened. When the situation is over, we show off our mental pictures by telling the story over and over, embellishing the worst details. It creates pain in the brain and drama in life. We hate it, but we do it, unconsciously. When we hold on to and mentally reli.. Iyanla Vanzant
0899ec3 Courage is a tool and a weapon. With just a little, you can build your life and use it to fend for yourself in the world. It Iyanla Vanzant
66d9c1c Truth is love's mother, and we all know it is not wise to lie to anyone's mother. Somehow, some way, Mother always finds out that you are lying. When she does, there is hell to pay! Iyanla Vanzant