Quotes from Katherine Woodward Thomas

You cannot do this course effectively on the level of intellect. In other words, while it's fine to read through the course before going back to actually do the practices, I can promise you authentic movement in your life only to the extent that you are willing to do the course and not just read the course.

THIS COURSE There is a huge chasm between wanting to find your ideal partner and being truly available for that partner when he or she appears. This course is about bridging that chasm. It shows you how to set a strong intention to love and be loved, then outlines in clear, specific steps what you can do to make your intention become a reality.

you are deeply loved by all of life. …you have the power to keep yourself safe. …no one knows more than you what's right for your life.

Our soulmates seldom appeal to our personality—our ego. That's why they are called soulmates rather than egomates. —Carolyn G. Miller, Soulmates

And while your new life may look little like the one you left behind, your goal is not to try to create a better version of what you once had, but to expand what's now possible to include fresh new horizons, friends, and interests—and the exploration of forgotten, yet promising possibilities.

To give up having to be right, having to prove someone else wrong, having to have the last word, having to be understood - that is the mark of a person who is capable and truly ready to create a loving relationship that will last and flourish over time.

You can live your life out of circumstance or you can live your life out of a vision. WERNER ERHARD

We don't try to force things to go the way we think they should. We give up trying to fit square pegs into round holes. Instead, we yield ourselves, trusting that, even if we do not like what we hear, we are safe to surrender to the larger context of our lives, trusting ultimately that all is well. Herein lies inner peace.

We must remember that loneliness is not the real enemy - alienation from ourselves is. We are never lonely because we have lost contact with others. We are lonely because we have lost contact with ourselves.

Don't let your fear of making a mistake dictate your chances for love. Remind yourself that at least one good thing came out of every mistake you've ever made.

Listening is love in action.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

I open myself fully to give and receive love.

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination. —Pir Vilayat Khan

I am connected to everyone and everything.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. —Debbie Ford

Allow yourself to undertake this journey exactly as you are. Be free to be your imperfect, messy, unenlightened self as well as your magnificent, extraordinary, fabulous self.

Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to soulmates, their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a relationship. —Rosemary Ellen Guiley

For learning to live happily even after, finding a way to forgive the unforgivable, and to move forward in life graciously with hope in our hearts and goodwill in our gestures and in our words, may very well be the essence of what it is to truly love each other.

Life is an ever-emerging creative process. Our thoughts, beliefs, assumptions, choices, actions, and words are the tools we use to invent our experiences and our circumstances.

We have to stop asking why this is happening to me and start asking why it is happening for me.

the one thing we do know for sure is that the relationship you once shared—the one that was clearly not working for one or both of you—has to die.

guilt in that guilt is something we're more likely to feel when we violate our own core values, disturbed that something we have done is fundamentally bad and wrong. Shame is what we feel when violating external rules and expectations that society imposes upon us, and it leaves us feeling that we are fundamentally bad and wrong.

shame differs from guilt in that guilt is something we're more likely to feel when we violate our own core values, disturbed that something we have done is fundamentally bad and wrong. Shame is what we feel when violating external rules and expectations that society imposes upon us, and it leaves us feeling that we are fundamentally bad and wrong.