Colette Baron-Reid > Quotes

“Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.”
― Colette Baron-Reid

“Blaming others doesn’t help you make the shift into courage and recognizing the support of Spirit and your own soul working together. Blaming yourself and just trying to paddle as fast as you can as you tell yourself how stupid and inadequate you were keeps you stuck in the pain and suffering caused by your small self.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“If you want your fear to fade away and myriad possibilities you never considered to start revealing themselves, you need a different map, one that shows the unknown, unexplored places. Those are the places your soul wants to go. Your soul is here to experience life, not to simply animate yet another human body going through the motions of living—eating, sleeping, working, and so on. It wants to travel to places that aren’t on the familiar map you are looking at. Now, you might look at your familiar map and think, Here’s where I”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“The fact is that all roads lead to Rome. Eventually, regardless of what you choose to do, you will end up having the experiences you came here for. You may have spiritual amnesia and find yourself getting lost again and again, but your soul is always right there next to you, waiting for you to wake up and pay attention to what it has to tell you. It will make sure you have the experiences it wants you to have, even when you’re taking every back road and “wrong” turn. Trust it! When you add your light to the sum of Light and co-create wholeheartedly, mindfully, and respectfully in community with others, you are doing what you came here to do. You will be on the right road even if it seems you are taking the long way and wasting time. If you think about it, why wouldn’t you take the scenic route rather than the highway? Are you in a rush to get somewhere? What’s the destination? Get rid of the mentality that you are going “to” some specific place on the map—trying to create some specific situation that will allow you to be happy ever after. Life will always change, and you will always be in motion. So the scenic route is a back road—not the most direct, fastest way to what you think you want to experience. Guess what? You can experience joy, abundance—whatever you seek—wherever you are. And your soul may want something more: the experience of opening your heart and your eyes in compassion. You may have to take a back road to have that experience because you probably don’t have “develop deeper understanding of people who frustrate me” and “experience the bittersweetness of life” on your small self’s list of goals to accomplish. Remember, your soul takes winding paths to get the experiences it wants to have. It is working with Spirit to co-create a reality your small self might not be conscious of—although”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“This is the epiphany, the gift, from those who have crossed over to the realm beyond the veil: We don’t have to carry around the pain, the shame, or the belief that somehow what happened to us was our fault or that we are unworthy of what we desire—love, joy, acceptance, expression, and belonging. We are powerful co-creators with Spirit. We no longer have to go by the old, familiar maps that were etched into being by those experiences. When we’re lost, we all want a map—but maps can only tell us where we’ve been. They can only reflect the past and our memories of experiences. But we are headed into places uncharted, into an unknown future that has not yet been imagined. Where are you going? What do you want to co-create?”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“What did I learn and internalize from the experience? That our challenge is to let go of our old stories that defined us and forgive others and ourselves. Dropping those stories will free us from the burdens and restrictions that have prevented us from writing new ones. The spirits—our loved ones on the other side, our angels or guides, Fred—want us to do that in order to heal the deep rift in the world, so our future includes an earth that is healed and whole and tended to by her inhabitants with respect. Their message is to love without conditions, to show compassion, to be as authentic as we are able, to strip away the lies we’ve told ourselves, and to remember who we really are and who we came here to be. We are spiritual beings constrained by our human experience, defined at this time in history by a distorted lens of perception and perspective, in a state of spiritual amnesia and asleep at the wheel of life. It’s time to wake up.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“Your soul knows that you are right where you need to be to have the experiences you need. Trust it.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“They let me know that we are here to create and that there’s always enough in the garden, and we must defend that against our fear. We have to be playful as we plant, grow, and co-create.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“Something deep inside the caverns of your psyche is beginning to transform. Can you feel the magic beckon? Are you ready to reclaim, repair, and knit together all the pieces of the authentic you that were lost within when you were wounded in your past? They can serve you now, but you have to illuminate them and see them in a new light. The old stories of your life can take on new meaning. When you free yourself from their stamp on your identity, miracles can and do happen. All it takes is willingness to let go and let something new reveal itself to you. A map is appearing for you now, and it’s like a spherical, sparkling hologram, calling you to journey home to who you truly are. Unlike maps in the modern physical world, this map of the soul has plenty of uncharted places. And the map itself is only revealed when you take blind steps inward, led by your first sense. Those steps you take will lead you into the dark, mysterious world of your inner psyche, where you can come to know yourself and Spirit and experience unconditional love and acceptance. There’s no reason to be afraid, because Spirit is always with you. You will know that and feel it when you say the words that bring in the magic: not “abracadabra” but “thank you.” Thank you! This abracadabra is simple and profound. Immersing yourself in a meditation on deep, immense gratitude invokes Spirit to fill your consciousness and remind you that you are blessed to be given the gift of life—the gift of being able to co-create reality. While we always live between the pillars of what is and what might be, we reclaim our power to be the storytellers of our own lives when we connect with Spirit through gratitude.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“Rejection is Spirit's protection. What is for you will not go past you.”
― Collette Baron-Reid

“During this time, I proved to myself that I was as good as other authors who had achieved the same stature. But I quickly learned that my outer accomplishments were not the issue and never had been. This journey into uncharted waters wasn’t about financial gain, accolades, or any other type of outer acceptance—although I achieved all of those too. I thought I was manifesting a different reality, one that was more authentic to who I was or wanted to be. But the more I settled into my new situation, the more my spirit became restless. My small self wasn’t any more certain or safe. Something had to change, and that something was me.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“Fear feels real because it creates a physiological response in the Realm of Form. If you release it, using your mind and imagination to return to a calming state of being, your body will respond accordingly. The next time you feel anxious or scared, stop yourself and pay attention to what you’re feeling in your body. Be present with yourself and observe how you feel. When you do this, you’re likely to notice that the physical response of fear starts fading and you begin thinking more clearly. You”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“Here’s what your soul knows and you forgot: You signed up for this human experience knowing that in this life, you would spend much of your time asleep. In fact, all of us made this choice for ourselves. We agreed we would develop spiritual amnesia and forget that Spirit is the Quintessential Absolute and that we are always a part of Spirit and co-creating with Spirit. We agreed we would get hurt, find happiness, fail, succeed, live, and die. You and I signed up for the whole enchilada. We journeyed away from home, from the Realm of Spirit, to come here. We can’t truly go home again until we shed our bodies, but using our consciousness, we can return to this safe spot and remember everything will be okay—life is just a game, and we agreed to play it.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“DON’T PANIC ABOUT THE TIME When did you get off track and onto a back road? How did you end up dissatisfied and wanting your life to change—or facing changes you don’t want instead of attracting the situations you do want? I know it’s hard to be patient when your life isn’t going as you want it to. But if you remain in your small self, walking only on the familiar path and using only your rational mind, planning and strategizing and figuring everything out and then taking action, quick, before opportunities dry up, you will probably end up lost and upset. Don’t rush to get back on what you think is the interstate!”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“We are all storytellers, and if we listen deeply and share honestly, we will find that wonderful feeling of community and wisdom in the archetypal themes we all share as we evolve collectively—themes such as freedom, playfulness, mastery, and learning. None of us is meant to be an island, isolating and hoarding resources. When we share our wisdom and support and resources with others, we immediately dispel the illusion of scarcity. We remember that the matrix of connection sustains us regardless of what we want to create or what form our creativity takes. If you are willing to step into those uncharted waters, leaving your old self behind with love to discover who you really are and why you’re here, you will find that you’ll be in a collaborative process. You always have access to the guidance of Spirit, and you always have your soul’s map.”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility

“When you view the world through the limits of your small self, you see only the separated parts of the material world. You are guided by your personal narratives that tell you who you are based on your past experience, ambitions, and goals that were set within the Realm of Form. You’re oblivious to being part of one big matrix of interconnectedness. You forget where home is, and you feel lost. The soul self knows that regardless of how things look when you’re scared, or totally in your head, or focused on achievement, you have a soul map that is magical and multidimensional. It knows that to unlock the secrets of this map, you need to take your eyes away from the Realm of Form and allow the world to show you its magic. Your”
― Colette Baron Reid, Uncharted: The Journey through Uncertainty to Infinite Possibility