Caroline Myss > Quotes

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”
― Caroline Myss

“What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”
― Carolyn Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“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

“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

“Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.”
― Carolyn Myss

“Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss:

~ God be in my head and in my understanding.

God be in my eyes and in my looking.

God be in my mouth and in my speaking.

God be in my tongue and in my tasting.

God be in my lips and in my greeting.

~ God be in my nose and in my smelling/inhaling.

God be in my ears and in my hearing.

God be in my neck and in my humbling.

God be in my shoulders and in my bearing.

God be in my back and in my standing.

~ God be in my arms and in my reaching/receiving.

God be in my hands and in my working.

God be in my legs and in my walking.

God be in my feet and in my grounding.

God be in my knees and in my relating.

~ God be in my gut and in my feeling.

God be in my bowels and in my forgiving.

God be in my loins and in my swiving.

God be in my lungs and in my breathing.

God be in my heart and in my loving.

~ God be in my skin and in my touching.

God be in my flesh and in my paining/pining.

God be in my blood and in my living.

God be in my bones and in my dying.

God be at my end and at my reviving.”
― Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“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, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit

“Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.”
― Caroline Myss, Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

“Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better”
― Caroline Myss

“People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.”
― Carolyn 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

“You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that’s not authentically you.”
― Caroline Myss, Archetypes: Who Are You?

“We are not designed to be critical of others or ourselves; we think ill of others only out of fear.”
― Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“We often hesitate to follow our intuition out of fear. Most usually, we are afraid of the changes in our own life that our actions will bring. Intuitive guidance, however, is all about change. It is energetic data ripe with the potential to influence the rest of the world. To fear change but to crave intuitive clarity is like fearing the cold, dark night while pouring water on the fire that lights your cave. An insight the size of a mustard seed is powerful enough to bring down a mountain-sized illusion that may be holding our lives together. Truth strikes without mercy. We fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations.”
― Caroline Myss

“Intention without discipline is useless.”
― Caroline Myss, Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

“when you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful.”
― Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential

“The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.”
― Carolyn 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

“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

“Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one's illness or suffering,for example,was-and remains-extremely effective for people who find they cannot be direct in their interactions,Who argues with someone who is in pain? And if pain is the only power a person has,health is not an attractive replacement. It was apparent to me that becoming healthy represented more than just getting over an illness. Health represented a complex progression into a state of personal empowerment in which one had to move from a condition of vulnerability to one of invincibility,from victim to victor,from silent bystander to aggressive defender of personal boundaries.Completing this race to the finish was a yeoman's task if ever there was one.Indeed,in opening the psyche and soul to the healing process,we had expanded the journey of wellness into one of personal transformation."
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― Caroline Myss, Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

“You need to challenge your fear of life becoming unreasonable - because it is already unreasonable. In truth, your life has never been reasonable, it’s just that you keep hoping tomorrow will be different and that you will find a way to bring more control into your world. Recognize that life will always be full of challenges and crisis. The wise way is not to attempt to find one path that promises you will never have to endure the pain of loss and illness, but instead to learn how to endure and transcend when unreasonable events come your way. Learning to defy gravity in your world - to think, perceive, and act at the mystical level of consciousness - is the greatest gift you can give yourself, because it is the gift of truth. And as we are bound to learn again and again in this life, the truth does indeed set us free.”
― Caroline Myss

“Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.”
― Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?”
― Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.”
― Carolyn Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.”
― Caroline Myss

“your biography—that is, the experiences that make up your life—becomes your biology.”
― Caroline Myss, Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

“I have since become convinced that when we define ourselves by our wounds, we burden and lose our physical and spiritual energy and open ourselves to the risk of illness.”
― Caroline Myss, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can

“Surrendering the need for an explanation represents a profound act of personal transformation.”
― Caroline Myss, Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason