Dave Markowitz > Quotes

“We are all connected metaphysically, but physically we are not, nor should we want to be.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“I am not responsible for the soul path of another person.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“The compassionate person loves others as they are, where they are, and who they are. We can better achieve this state by trusting the bigger picture. We have to know deep within our cells that all people are exactly where they need to be. We”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“While taking care of others before ourselves may go along with the modus operandi many of us were taught since childhood, the healthier spirituality sees this as an unhealthy martyrdom.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“we take on and identify with another’s negative energy, we’re not helping ourselves (obviously), but we’re not helping the other person either.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“abilities when misunderstood, misused, or ignored can drag us down emotionally, sometimes to the point of near-paralysis. They fatigue us quickly and perhaps even chronically, and burden us with unnecessary responsibility and ill health that doesn’t heal no matter what we try.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“Remember that another’s grief is theirs, not yours.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“We know there is peace within all hearts and if we could only open our hearts more and open the hearts of others, we could live in a glorious growth-inducing, peaceful world.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“Whatever we ingest, whether a necessary medication or food, I would suggest that you bless it before you eat it. Say grace, express gratitude, and smile! This can raise the vibration of yourself and whatever you are ingesting, and in some cases can minimize side effects.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“Actions when channeled through the body from infinite Universal love cannot tire you. Actions coming from a sense of limitation, responsibility, guilt, shame or fear certainly will block energy flow leading to stagnation, discomfort, and eventually pain and/or illness.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“It is better to give than receive” is an old paradigm that is by its nature, unsustainable, yet so many of us fall into the trap.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“honoring your own needs is the highest form of love. Not at the expense of others, but along with them. We can better serve others after we honor ourselves as children of God and start acting like we are worthy of that reality. To dishonor ourselves, to live from false humility, and to not recognize our worth, I believe, is the ultimate insult to the creator and will keep us in a perpetual state of discontent and wanting.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“I wondered what would be next and then it hit me in a most unusual circumstance: I became aware that I can absorb the negative energy of others enough to become ill myself. And so can you.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“NO ONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER PERSON’S SOUL.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“New ideas become habits through conscious repetition of thoughts, words, and actions.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“we empaths are “emotional sponges” who intuitively absorb everything around us, and we need to find a safe way to deal with this.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“This is a world that doesn’t allow us to express ourselves as the love we now know we are.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“As much as I love so many of you, I do not wish to merge with any or all of you enough so that your problems become my problems.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers

“It is best to be a supporter, a guide, an assistant to a process, but not a sponge or an enabler. There is a very big difference.”
― Dave Markowitz, Self-Care for the Self-Aware: A Guide for Highly Sensitive People, Empaths, Intuitives, and Healers