Quotes from Debbie Ford

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

When you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways.

All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

When you make peace with yourself, the world will mirror back that same level of peace.

What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

Resentments lodge inside you, causing you to lose touch with your inherent worth, your joy, and - more important - your God-loving heart.

Why can't we see everyone and everything as God, as a part of the Divine? It is because we don't see ourselves this way.

Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we have the great opportunity to step into who we always wanted to be.

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Asking "Am I choosing from my divinity or am I choosing from my humanity? " opens the door for us to experience realms of reality that we may never have visited before.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.

When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.