Quotes from Mary Carroll Nelson

Cleansing our emotional poison is a simple process. All it takes is the thought of love and our breath. We hold the wound in our mind briefly. Then we breathe deliberately while thinking of the word love. We can apply this cleansing routine to old wounds and new ones. When we clean a wound, it heals itself. We cannot clean a wound by sharing the poison with someone else. Such an action increases the poison.

Whatever we recall, if we respond to it with love, we can transform even those memories we think of as injustices. With love we go into forgiveness. We forgive what happened and we forgive ourselves. The result is that our agreement changes and we recover a little more of the totality of ourselves.

Toltec system teaches that we are no longer little babies, or helpless. We are strong enough to change everything. No matter what conditions you find yourself in, you have the power to change them. Even those who have been raped can change their reality. The effects of your wounds are lessened if you realize you are dreaming. You can change your inner movie because you are the director, writer and actor, and you have all the power to change the story you are living.