Betty

“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“It had been a conscious decision to pull free. It had taken everything I had to do it, like an animal gnawing a limb off to escape a trap. And somehow I had done it;”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”
― Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature