Quotes from Iyanla Vanzant

When is he and all of his energy going to vacate the crevices of my mind?

As you move through today's practice, give yourself permission to tell the low-down, dirty truth about what you are thinking, feeling, and believing. What part of yourself can you see in your partner/ex-partner? And are you willing to forgive it in you? Love brings up everything unlike itself. This means the deeper you love someone, the more unloving parts of yourself will be revealed.

Today, I ask to be forgiven for it all as I forgive others. Today, I choose to see the world and all people with the eyes of love, acceptance, and peace.

If I am seeing something that is blocking my awareness of love, it is an image of a false idea that I created and only forgiveness will dissolve it.

you pray for something and you do not see the answer, consider the following: (1) Is what you want good for you? (2) Will you or anyone else be hurt by your having it? (3) Are you ready for the responsibility of having it? If you can answer these questions affirmatively, and the answer to your prayer has not manifested, the issue is probably patience.

To forgive your mother opens and heals your heart.

Work is not just about getting paid what you're worth. It is about using your gifts, sharing the best of who you are, and using what brings you joy to make someone else's life better." Never in my life had I heard anything like that. At the time, it sounded crazy.

Learning to trust yourself means focusing on the good you are, the good you have, and the good you desire so that the truth can heal all error thought and allow you to see the blessing hidden in all that you have been through, gone through, and grown through.

We see in one another the things we cannot see or accept about

I was also afraid that I wouldn't be good enough to compete in that arena.

I had watched my father, my uncles, my brother, and even my son—only on occasion—treat the women in their lives less than honorably.

You see, the soul already knows you are always safe and survival is not your issue. It is your Creator's issue.

I had to find my sense of self, my authentic identity, my voice, and my center beyond the restrictions, limitations, and definitions that anyone else taught me, imposed upon me, or expected of me.

Your head or intellect is addicted to the satisfaction of your physical senses—the place that holds all of the programming and conditioning of your childhood and adult experiences and is the throne of the negative ego.

When you think that someone else thinks you are wrong or guilty because of the color of your skin, your responses to or interactions with them are not grounded in reality. They are the result of programming and conditioning.

Learning to trust yourself means focusing on the good you are, the good you have, and the good desire so that the truth can heal all error thought and allow you to see the blessing hidden in all that you have been through, gone through, and grown through.

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it.

suffered, to forgive the one who inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. —MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little. — Jeff Bridges' character in Seabiscuit

INCREASES OUR CHANCES TO RECEIVE WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING.

Today's practice is about clearing and releasing the hurts, wounds, and judgments you may hold about or against women. Our experience and expectations of women begins with our mothers. Chances are if we have any judgments about our mothers, they will extend to other women.

Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul.

Trusting life is easy, but it requires that you understand and embrace the laws of life. Cause and effect, correspondence, vibration, attraction, love, and forgiveness are all concrete laws that govern the movement and unfolding of life. It is unfortunate that we are not taught these laws in school. It is even more unfortunate that we do not pay attention to how we do what we do, because that is how the laws are made practical and personal for us.

NO CHOICE IS A BAD CHOICE; EVERY CHOICE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LEARNING TO UNFOLD.