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“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” - Joseph Campbell”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” - Dr. Deepak Chopra”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.” - Philip Arnold”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Happiness is not something that can be attained through ideal conditions nor in the escaping of obligations. But rather, happiness is something that we become through the transformation of our consciousness. The desire to get someplace else will only keep us stuck in a perpetual cycle of wanting happiness rather than actualizing it.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The hero’s journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of yourself.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Don’t let your ego choose the station anymore. The first step to reclaiming your power to consciously respond is to develop awareness”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“We expect our partner only to make us feel good, meet our expectations, and keep our ego happy. We fail to recognize that discomfort is a natural, unavoidable part of every healthy relationship, and navigating the imperfections, mistakes, and character flaws of ourselves and our partner is part of establishing true love.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“Most importantly, never try to adopt an idea that does not feel authentic to you. You are perfect as you are.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“True love is not something that we find;
it is something that we consciously create and build together”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“or forgive—only accept what is freely given. To move forward, we must realize that our striving to be a good person is what makes us a good person, not any particular self-improvement achievement. There is no “perfection” to reach and then we will finally fully accept ourselves.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“repercussion of making choices. Judgment has been used as a force of manipulation for eons, through creating gods of judgment and wrath that we have to please, plead with, and seek forgiveness from, or else.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Hurt people passing on hurt to others thus teaching them to repeat the behavior. And the innocent cycle of ignorance begetting ignorance goes on and on.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The rejection we experienced from others is not personal nor true. The wound of rejection is only ignorance begetting ignorance—hurt people, hurting people.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“True freedom and lasting happiness are realized through the internal transcendence of limiting themes of consciousness. Unfortunately, not understanding this powerful truth has caused the vast majority of us to tirelessly strive to attain happiness externally.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The mind cannot transcend reason and logic because the mind is too attached to objective verification and therefore cannot comprehend a subjective, Spiritual Reality. The transcendence of this theme only comes from looking beyond the linear mind for greater truth. Spiritual realization is not something objectively proven; it can only be experienced as an internal, invisible shift in conscious awareness.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Remember that your true Self is in silent bliss of existence so anything other than divine presence is the ego editing your reality.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“But nevertheless, you have to accept that had you been born into a different family, different time, different country, different religion, different gender, or just overall had different life experiences, your thoughts and beliefs would have been completely altered. So who are you without any of these inheritances? What innocent, pure soul is underneath and behind all these messages?”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“There is no wrong way to be in love.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“Through expectancy, we become entrained into certain themes of consciousness that then become our sense of reality—all without our conscious awareness. Even rebelling against our parents’ or society's ways of thinking in order to prove our sovereignty is still yet another behavioral program inheritance. Without the original modeling, we would have nothing to rebel against in the first place. The question to be asking ourselves is who would we be without any of these inheritances of programs? Who were you before you accumulated all your thoughts, programs, opinions, judgments, valuations, and attachments? Who were you before all your fear, doubt, and insecurity covered you? The true freedom and lasting happiness you are seeking can only be realized by breaking out of inherited programming and choosing to remember the truth for yourself.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“What can I learn from this? What do I need to let go of? What part am I playing in this? Where am I limiting my own joy and peace? Where am I getting stuck?”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“The standards we have accepted regarding our freedom and happiness are simply that—accepted. Meaning they are not being forced or applied from outside of us. They are self-created through our consciousness, and therefore can be self-edited or replaced entirely. We can change and mold our experience of life to be whatever we desire.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“We are infinitely and unconditionally loved, even if those around us didn’t know how to properly express it and ended up hurting us traumatically instead.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“our partner actually plays a crucial role in our healing journey. Past traumas can lie deeply embedded in our unconscious, surfacing only when triggered by interactions with others, especially our partner.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious Relationship Together

“struggles. But without actually healing the root of our dissatisfaction with life and evolving our consciousness, our problems will only continue to resurface again in new forms, no matter where we go or what we do.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“the source of our dissatisfaction is the mind’s internal dialogue, not the subject of its complaints.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Themes of consciousness are thus inherited, trained, conditioned, exercised, and reinforced until they gradually become subconscious and generate our sense of who we think we are. Things like skepticism, frustration, anxiety, or jealousy can become so hardwired into the brain that they become quite literally a neurological reflex. The brain can then become addicted to the chemicals released, called neurotransmitters, each time a neurological reflex is activated. The brain will even look for and find a reason or excuse to “go there” so that it can receive a chemical hit of the thought or emotion that it is so addicted to. The good news is, with each moment spent in states of gratitude, love, ease, and trust, the neuron connections for them get stronger as well, and the old pathways begin weakening.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Imagine yourself again, that same innocent five-year-old. Your parents get into a fight, and it makes you feel something new—fear and doubt of love and goodness. You instinctually find that by covering yourself with a blanket, you feel safe and protected. So you start to wear this blanket as a costume to hide from the chaos. You go to school and your classmates taunt you just for being yourself. You feel ashamed and embarrassed. You decide one blanket isn’t enough protection, so you add a second one to cover yourself up even more. If you didn’t physically do this as a child, we can guarantee you did it metaphorically. As you get older, you fall in love, but the person you open your heart to shuts you down. So you add another layer of protection over yourself. Your parents get divorced; you add another layer. People let you down; you add a layer. Your big plans don’t pan out; you add another layer. Anytime you are unable to control your circumstances or the people around you, you are reminded of how powerless you seem to be, and so you protect yourself with yet another layer. Because of mineness mentality, your mind innocently collected these experiences as a part of your identity and has worn them all your life. After all, from your ego’s vantage point, all of it is mine, and therefore about me—all my experiences must define me. As time goes on, the free, happy, innocent child of bliss becomes buried deep underneath the layers of fear for so many years that even you forget your true identity. You’ve been wearing the protective layers for so long that you completely overlooked the fact that you could just take them all off at any point. Luckily, underneath the layers of past experiences you have dressed yourself in, you still remain the innocent and happy child. No matter how traumatic life has been, you are still innocent and free, beautiful and perfect, wanted and loved, seen and recognized—just as you are. And with a little decluttering of the mind’s layers, the innocent child of bliss can finally be revealed once again.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“This is because all struggle with life is intrinsically rooted in our own consciousness and could never be caused by something or someone outside ourselves.”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness

“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” - Dr. Deepak Chopra”
― Mathew Micheletti, The Inner Work: An Invitation to True Freedom and Lasting Happiness