Jane Peters’s Reviews > Women Living Deliciously > Status Update

“Putting on headphones and watching the world go by around you is luxurious. The morning dew on grass in the spring is luxurious. The humid smell of the Earth after it’s been raining is luxurious. The sound of rainfall on the windows when you’re warm indoors is luxurious. The warmth of another person’s body under yours is luxurious.”

“Time without your phone is luxurious. The sun on your face is luxurious.… The smell of a sea salt breeze when you walk past the ocean is luxurious. Birds chirping in the morning is luxurious. Feeling the soft, buttery texture of rose petals on your fingers or brushing them against your cheek is luxurious. Your pet’s soft paws are luxurious. Being awake before everyone else luxurious.”

“I used to fear that my ability to be easy, delighted by life was a weakness. I feared it contradicted the high standards I was trying to develop for how I was treated by others…But in reality, it’s allowed me to create a life so full and vibrant, full of delights, whenever I wanted them, that it protected me from the temptation to settle for other people’s crumbs!”

“Master the art of being easily delighted, and you will become one of the most mentally wealthy people on the planet… it is impossible to be bored when we practice viewing life as infinitely delighting. Which, it is!”

“The next time you call yourself insecure I want you to correct yourself and say, ‘no, I’m not insecure, life is insecure, and I am struggling to accept the loss of control I feel in this moment.’”

“We are not insecure, life itself is insecure. I would say it’s unfortunate that nothing lasts forever, but I’m an optimist–I think the fleeting nature of things allows us to love and cherish them more deeply. When we describe ourselves as insecure, it is because we have an insecure attachment to these people, possessions, titles, clinging onto them for a sense of safety, which, in reality, does not exist.”

“Safe is good, but sometimes we can fool our minds into settling for something that’s easy, that does not stretch our limits. Comfort fulfills our need for human safety, but it does not fulfill our desire for expansion. Ultimately, it’s a false comfort, because the discomfort is delayed. We delay it for a future version of ourselves that lives in regret of a life lived pleasing and playing it safe.”

“ You start to envy other women who live and embody the carefree energy you wish to possess. – You start to exist in comparison mode, where everyone is in competition instead of collaboration.”

“Let’s look at the delayed and compounding cost of not expressing yourself. – You build a resentment towards how you’re living your life, as the daily inaction and the habits that are not in favor of the person you want to be pile up and you feel as though you cannot even rely on yourself. This lack of self-esteem is so crushing.”

“Affirmations:
- Anything I do to elevate my energy is not silly, it is a generous contribution to the planet that desperately needs more people full of life…
- I am worth the effort it takes to live a beautiful life.”