While still remaining who you are, you can bring about a quantum leap in your awareness, and the sign that the leap is real will be some emergent property you never experienced in the past.

Deepak Chopra

"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time."

T.S. Eliot

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

Eckhart Tolle

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

St Augustine

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now -- when?"

Hillel

There is a saying in Tibetan, "Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength." No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

Dalai Lama

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over

Eckhart Tolle

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

Dalai Lama

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Maslow

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Marianne Williamson

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers... And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

Maslow

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

Carl Jung

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

Returning to Self
Healing Your Inner Child & Living in the Power of Now

For some of us growing up seemed relatively easy, for some it was a struggle, and for others it was a hugely traumatic experience.

We live life reacting to the wounds that we suffered in early childhood – we coped and survived through it all.  We adopted coping mechanisms to manage our emotional woundings.

The traumas suffered by our land, our culture, our family systems, our significant parent figures and role models all play a part in the script of our lives.  They too have coped and managed.  Resilience can often be seen in the guise of the extremes, of too much or too little in the areas of control, structure, rigidity, laxity, giving, taking, receiving, cognition, activity, beingness etc.  Along the way, we may have lost our ability to be fully present in the now, be our spontaneous self, to be in our free flow and our love.

Healing our Inner Child & Living in the Power of Now is the path to experiencing freedom, harmony and empowerment.

When we lock our childhood wounds, traumas and feelings within us, operating from our coping strategies, our free flowing energy is blocked.  In fact, what has been locked up as our dark side for so long has an immense power over us.  By our suppression, we actually allow our emotionally wounded Child to drive us and direct our relationships and our lives.

What a gift we give ourselves and others in our lives when we open ourselves to growing up again with love and faith. In our essence we know that we are a Divine Gift and that we deserve love and kindness and harmony in our lives.

From way back in our childhood we may be carrying the toxicity of shame and guilt.  It may not even belong to us!  We were only children and in our love, we may have taken on the shame and guilt of others before us.  Healing Your Inner Child & Living in the Power of Now is not about blaming anybody.  Each one of our parents and role models were also wounded children, often operating through their own coping mechanisms.  So much is passed down from our ancestors, to us and to our children.  Each generation bears the consequences and pays a price for happenings and movements that lie way beyond our agency.

Our heart longs for wholeness, integration and freedom.  For peace and love.

Our path of healing can take us there … making way for living in the present, flowing with our emotions and our love.