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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 19716b0 | Sting | Sandra Brown | ||
| 7407ef1 | whetstone. | Sandra Brown | ||
| dff2dc0 | He had entered her body as one walks into a church, a little ashamed for what he was, apologetic because he wasn't worthy, a supplicant for mercy, contrite that such a temple was defiled by his presence. | Sandra Brown | ||
| 695125c | The conversation had left her feeling more disturbed than ever. She had bared her soul about the tragic death of her parents and its effect on her, a topic she was | Sandra Brown | ||
| e41231c | I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself." -- Iyanla Vanzant" -- | Stephen W Gardner | ||
| 44c611e | Your head or intellect is addicted to the satisfaction of your physical senses--the place that holds all of the programming and conditioning of your childhood and adult experiences and is the throne of the negative ego. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 95c55ed | When you think that someone else thinks you are wrong or guilty because of the color of your skin, your responses to or interactions with them are not grounded in reality. They are the result of programming and conditioning. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 4ad92af | Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 65941c6 | Trusting life is easy, but it requires that you understand and embrace the laws of life. Cause and effect, correspondence, vibration, attraction, love, and forgiveness are all concrete laws that govern the movement and unfolding of life. It is unfortunate that we are not taught these laws in school. It is even more unfortunate that we do not pay attention to how we do what we do, because that is how the laws are made practical and personal .. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| a038120 | Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something." -- Iyanla Vanzant 6." | Stephen W Gardner | ||
| b36f7f7 | In the process of surviving in an environment that is void of trust, children also learn to deny themselves and their wounds in order to protect the image and needs of the big people in the environment. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| fa5ca67 | Even before my grandmother could beat or punish me for one thing or another, before my father could sit me down to lecture me about my defiant disobedience, I was already hemorrhaging internally from dragging myself through my own mental and emotional bloodbath. Years of beatings and lectures and punishments had taught me not only that was I untrustworthy but also that I should not and could not trust my own instincts. I carried those thoug.. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 50452b2 | 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." -- Iyanla Vanzant 26." | Stephen W Gardner | ||
| 47850fa | FORGIVENESS SHIFTED MY PERSPECTIVE, MY LIFE, AND THE VITAL SIGNS OF MY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 481d95c | lived with as men was I able to find, hold, and see them with compassion. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 0a1f50b | Doing something wrong meant that I had not pleased the person or people in charge. It also meant that what I thought, what I felt, and what I needed or desired was of little or no consequence. As I grew older, more creative, and increasingly independent, there were many situations when I acted out in unmistakable defiance of the authority figures in my life. In each and every instance when I attempted to assert my thoughts or my voice, I wa.. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 2161c04 | Doing the wrong thing can be corrected. Being wrong, on the other hand, is a fatal flaw. When being who we are--our essence--is deemed wrong, everything we touch becomes contaminated. Our innate wrongness becomes the filter through which we see the world and measure our worth, value, and deservedness. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 48b299b | is very hard to learn to trust yourself when you are taught that you are bad, wrong, and cursed--and that you did all of it to yourself. H | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| e52966a | Any spiritual healer on the planet would probably tell you that at the root of all cancer is a seed of anger. When anger festers, it promotes cancer | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 05c033e | I recognized that a broken life is a test of faith of the highest order. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 19d4c9b | hanging | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 1626e6f | It is always so much easier to blame someone else rather than accepting responsibility for your experiences. | Iyanla Vanzant | ||
| 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 |