Lyssa deHart > Quotes

“What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we’re seeing the whole thing, but the whole thing is so vast that there is no way from our small place in the universe to see it all? What about that? From this perspective of vastness, it may just be that we probably know next to nothing. And, we create cultural constructs of our knowledge and try and make the whole vast infinite universe fit in our tiny little boxes.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart

“As the expert in knowing yourself, you get to decide what you want to explore in your internal landscape.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life

“There is a big difference between listening to an interesting story and recognizing an important one.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life

“The lenses and filters that we see the world through are so firmly attached to our faces that it requires great awareness and then courage to pull the lenses off and look at ourselves and the world around us from any other viewpoint.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life

“If our story isn’t serving us, negatively impacts our families, our communities, or our organizations, we might just have to find a way to “StoryJack” the story, transforming it, and creating a new story that we resonate with so that we can “Jack Into” a better version or experience the story – and our life - in a new way.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart

“I know, You know that I know, and I know that you know that I know, we are a very knowledgeable family…” But, the line might have been more true if we just said, “I don’t know, you don’t know, I don’t know what you know and you don’t know what I know, and we are all just making stuff up all the time pretending to be knowledgeable, it’s what our family does.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart

“Where we can get shagged up is the stories we tell ourselves that we rarely share. The stories about how we can’t do something because we aren’t good enough, or smart enough, or capable enough. These stories cause us problems because we often keep them secret, hidden away in some dark closet in our mind, sometimes even from ourselves. And this, my friend, is a problem.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life

“Of course the emotional road is a bumpy one, so it's going to take more than reading this once to get it.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart, StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life

“Every Moment Offers Us Choices
Choose wisely
Because the Choices You Make, Make You”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart

“Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.”
― Lyssa Danehy deHart