Caroline Myss Quotes (139) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Caroline Myss, the spiritual author earned her B.A. in Journalism in 1974, her M.A. in Theology in 1979, and her Ph.D. in Energy Medicine in 1996. Caroline Myss now lives in Oak Park, Illinois in the United States of America. Published spiritual books by Caroline Myss include "Anatomy of the Spirit", "Why People Don't Heal and How They Can", "Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice", and "Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential". See website for more info - http://www.myss.com
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“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”
― Caroline Myss
“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.”
― Caroline Myss
“A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.”
― Caroline Myss
“Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.”
― Caroline Myss
“Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better”
― Caroline Myss
"If anyone tries to complicate your life,
turn and walk away from them."
― Caroline Myss
"Whenever you become empowered,
you will be tested."
― Caroline Myss
"You are afraid of your own empowerment
as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered."
― Caroline Myss
"Always go with the choice that scares you the most,
because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. "
― Caroline Myss
"I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill -
a skill based in self-esteem."
― Caroline Myss
"Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems.
It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas,
flowing through dreams and illuminations.
Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however,
it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it"
― Caroline Myss
"We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize
aspects of our nature that make us different from the family
and culture in which we have been raised."
― Caroline Myss
"When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves,
or when we intentionally create pain for others,
we poison our own physical and spiritual systems.
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit
is the inability to forgive oneself or another person.
It disables a person's emotional resources.
The challenge is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves
and to develop the power of forgiveness. "
― Caroline Myss
"Forgiveness is no longer an option
but a necessity for healing."
― Caroline Myss
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.
The challenge is to silence the mind."
Caroline Myss
"Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life."
― Caroline Myss
"The forgiving heart is capable of anything.
I believe that deeply.
And that’s where in terms of becoming an empowered individual....
when you get to the point where you realize you can look at someone and say
“I love myself enough -
not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff,
I’m talking respect myself -
I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it."
― Caroline Myss
"One of the greatest struggles of the healing process
is to forgive both yourself and others
and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts."
― Caroline Myss
"It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract.
It will guide you to find your divine destiny."
― Caroline Myss
"Contain your experience with the divine
so that it does not escape you but rather shapes you.
Be silent.
Silence will help you avoid engaging in the games of competition and illusion
that regularly seduce us in the outside world.
Silence also helps you avoid distraction.
It helps focus the busy mind -
the mind that always has to be doing something, thinking something,
the mind that always has to be otherwise engaged
lest it become introspective and allow the soul's voice to override its own.
The silence I am describing is a silence that you use
to contain the grace you receive when you enter the Castle of your soul.
This quality of silence allows you to engage in discernment.
You carry this silence within you, even when you are with others.
It allows you to hold your center amid the chaos of your life;
it keeps you clear so that you do not do or say things you will regret
or make decisions out of fear. "
― Caroline Myss
"In order to heal oneself,
we must learn how to forgive."
― Caroline Myss
Sirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path
of developing intimate relationships with God.
It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional."
― Caroline Myss
"There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
or an inconsequential act of service.
Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences."
― Caroline Myss
"We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize
aspects of our nature that make us different from the family and culture
in which we have been raised."
― Caroline Myss
"Do you really want to look back on your life
and see how wonderful it could have been
had you not been afraid to live it."
― Caroline Myss
"Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events."
― Caroline Myss
"The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time.
And that's why when one has become a forgiving person,
and has managed to let go of the past,
what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
― Caroline Myss
"Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
It is actually the ability to use energy data
to make decisions in the immediate moment."
― Caroline Myss
"Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being,
that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart."
― Caroline Myss
"The love that flows through your heart
purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others."
― Caroline Myss
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
― Caroline Myss
We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
― Caroline Myss
Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.
― Caroline Myss
The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.
― Caroline Myss
When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.
― Caroline Myss
Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
― Caroline Myss
There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies an energetic fragment of our own psyche and soul. Our individual spiritual task is to recognize and integrate all of them into our awareness so that the greater pattern of our mission can shine forth in its full dimensions.
― Caroline Myss
My prayer today is to become more mindful of my personal actions. What motivates me to do what I do and to say the things I do to others? I often dismiss my actions because of stress or anger but the people I hurt along the way do not dismiss what I've said or done. Every action and every word carries a consequence. Every person has stress and every person has anger. I would not like to be someone's target and I ask for the grace to become more mindful not to harm others just because I am having a bad day.
― Caroline Myss
We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.
― Caroline Myss
To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.
― Caroline Myss
Whenever you become empowered,
you will be tested.
― Caroline Myss
Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.
― Caroline Myss
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.
― Caroline Myss
Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.
― Caroline Myss
Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
― Caroline Myss
My prayer today is to not be negative about anything for one day. It is so easy to be disappointed, critical, cynical. Nothing is easier than to be a negative person. It takes effort to be hopeful and positive. People will say that you have to have a reason to be positive - what reason do the poor or lonely have to be positive? If we all waited for perfect conditions in our life before we felt hopeful, we would have very few days in life to celebrate. Perfection is rare. Hope means no matter how bleak, all things can and do change in the blink of an eye.
― Caroline Myss
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears.
― Caroline Myss
This day of your life will never come again.
― Caroline Myss
Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the strength to make your way without needing to ask for another's permission, depends on how well you succeed at the many challenges that awaken your need to take charge of who you are.
― Caroline Myss
Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.
― Caroline Myss
You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.
― Caroline Myss
When you are working well with your
energy, you are also making the best
expression of your personal power... By
reading your own energy, by becoming
aware of the lens through which you see
your world, you can change your mind and change your life.
― Caroline Myss
The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.
― Caroline Myss
Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.
― Caroline Myss
Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices.
― Caroline Myss
You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right...
― Caroline Myss
Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.
― Caroline Myss
Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction.
― Caroline Myss
Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery. This internal review inevitably leads one to review one's external circumstances in an effort to recreate one's life in a way that serves activation of will - the will to see and accept truths about one's life and how one has used one's energies; and the will to begin to use energy for the creation of love, self-esteem, and health.
― Caroline Myss
Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision.
― Caroline Myss
You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.
― Caroline Myss
None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance.
― Caroline Myss
The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.
― Caroline Myss
Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.
― Caroline Myss
There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
or an inconsequential act of service.
Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.
― Caroline Myss
Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.
― Caroline Myss
Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.
― Caroline Myss
People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them.
― Caroline Myss
The love that flows through your heart
purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.
― Caroline Myss
Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.
― Caroline Myss
Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!
― Caroline Myss
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
― Caroline Myss
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
― Caroline Myss
The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.
― Caroline Myss
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?
― Caroline Myss
It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.
― Caroline Myss
Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.
― Caroline Myss
Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for 'proof' that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.
― Caroline Myss
Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.
― Caroline Myss
Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience.
― Caroline Myss
Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.
― Caroline Myss
Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.
― Caroline Myss
The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.
― Caroline Myss
Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.
― Caroline Myss
The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.
― Caroline Myss
If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no real power. The world respects creation; people will get out of your way. - Candice Carpenter Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.
― Caroline Myss
Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.
― Caroline Myss
It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.
― Caroline Myss
Get bored with your past, it's over!
― Caroline Myss
It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.
― Caroline Myss
From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious.
― Caroline Myss
Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.
― Caroline Myss
We #fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations.
― Caroline Myss
It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn.
― Caroline Myss
One of the greatest struggles of the healing process
is to forgive both yourself and others
and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.
― Caroline Myss
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me. Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day. So that's my practice.
― Caroline Myss
You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.
― Caroline Myss
Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.
― Caroline Myss
Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.
― Caroline Myss
Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.
― Caroline Myss
Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.
― Caroline Myss
There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed.
― Caroline Myss
We are also very presumptuous to negate the possibility that an illness may be a gift. It's a neutral experience is what I'm trying to say. It should be viewed in some regard as no different than any other experience.
― Caroline Myss
Your biography becomes your biology.
― Caroline Myss
That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
― Caroline Myss
Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself.
― Caroline Myss
Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
― Caroline Myss
Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.
― Caroline Myss
Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.
― Caroline Myss
You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.
― Caroline Myss
I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there.
― Caroline Myss
If you actually get that you're not entitled to be loved, not by one person, not by anybody, and if you get that and then you look at people who love you - who love you - who think, my life is better because you, you are in it - that they get up and think, my whole world is better because you're in it, that for some reason they love you, and that they walk this world when you're not around thinking, but you're in it, and they come home and they want to call you, they want to come home and see you, your face - you can never make a person love you but somehow they do.
― Caroline Myss
Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events.
― Caroline Myss
Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.
― Caroline Myss
The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.
― Caroline Myss
While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.
― Caroline Myss
Belief in oneself is required for healing.
― Caroline Myss
Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind.
― Caroline Myss
Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.
Caroline Myss
Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
― Caroline Myss
Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow,
― Caroline Myss
To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.
― Caroline Myss
In order to heal oneself,
we must learn how to forgive.
― Caroline Myss
Your body is your own planet Earth.
― Caroline Myss
Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.
― Caroline Myss
When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels.
― Caroline Myss
A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.
― Caroline Myss
Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.
― Caroline Myss
I would remind people that this day of your life will never come again. Do not use one day of your life carelessly. It will never come again. You'll never see the person you're sitting across from in that light or in that way. You will never see the sunset twice. This day will never come again.
― Caroline Myss
Knowing that every single day is so filled with potential - you cannot wait for life to give you anything. You have no right to feel entitled. You are not entitled to anything.
― Caroline Myss
The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.
― Caroline Myss
Our lives change externally as we change internally.
― Caroline Myss
I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.
― Caroline Myss
I think energy medicine is a field that is probably for me the most authentic level of medicine that there is, because it takes into account what I would call 'square one of creation'. Which is where energy meets the process of incarnating. So I think it is very much going to become the dominant practice of medicine in this next millennium. We have no other place to go but there.
― Caroline Myss
A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter
― Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.
― Caroline Myss
To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.
― Caroline Myss
Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing.
― Caroline Myss
If we let go of things, our life is going to change.
And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
― Caroline Myss
Be consistent and live what you believe
― Caroline Myss
If you have life, you have purpose.
― Caroline Myss
I hold myself accountable for my contradictions.
― Caroline Myss
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