Quotes from Iyanla Vanzant

A MOTHER IS HER CHILDREN'S FIRST TEACHER. HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER CHILDREN BEGINS WHEN THEY ARE IN THE WOMB.

ACCEPT ABOUT OURSELVES.

If you want wealth, be wealth. Talk it. Think it. Prepare yourself to have it.

Open yourself to consider the glorious possibilities that lie just beyond how you have seen, held, and related to the masculine energy of the Creator that is embodied in all men.

THE MEN YOU HAVE LOVED OR THOSE WHO REFUSED TO LOVE YOU

In the process of surviving in an environment that is void of trust, children also learn to deny themselves and their wounds in order to protect the image and needs of the big people in the environment.

we really want to see change in the world and find a common, sacred meeting place, we can practice forgiveness rather than against-ness.  

FORGIVENESS SHIFTED MY PERSPECTIVE, MY LIFE, AND THE VITAL SIGNS OF MY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.

Prayer is the way we communicate with God. Affirmation is the way we reprogram the mind.

lived with as men was I able to find, hold, and see them with compassion.

opinions, and convictions when they do not mirror what I believe.

When I trust what I think and feel, then I am empowered to take actions that are self-supportive, self-respectful, and self-nurturing. I

Today's Forgiveness Practice is about forgiving the judgments, hurts, and wounds that may be buried in your consciousness and are engraved into your mother's name. You will be forgiving all thoughts, beliefs, memories, and experiences you may have judged as wrong, unfair, unkind, or unloving.

Doing something wrong meant that I had not pleased the person or people in charge. It also meant that what I thought, what I felt, and what I needed or desired was of little or no consequence. As I grew older, more creative, and increasingly independent, there were many situations when I acted out in unmistakable defiance of the authority figures in my life. In each and every instance when I attempted to assert my thoughts or my voice, I was corrected, punished, or both.

Doing the wrong thing can be corrected. Being wrong, on the other hand, is a fatal flaw. When being who we are—our essence—is deemed wrong, everything we touch becomes contaminated. Our innate wrongness becomes the filter through which we see the world and measure our worth, value, and deservedness.

is very hard to learn to trust yourself when you are taught that you are bad, wrong, and cursed—and that you did all of it to yourself. H

JEALOUSY, AND RIDICULE.

Courage is a tool and a weapon. With just a little, you can build your life and use it to fend for yourself in the world. It

Any spiritual healer on the planet would probably tell you that at the root of all cancer is a seed of anger. When anger festers, it promotes cancer

yourself, from whom you need forgiveness. Once you have completed the letter, you are encouraged to transform it by burning it, burying in, tearing it into pieces, flushing it, or deleting it from your computer. With any of these actions, you are not destroying the letter. Instead, you are transforming it and the energy it carries.

But then again, if I can only attract what I expect, what was I to do with all of the hurt, sadness, sorrow, anger, and fear that had built up as a result of what I had seen

Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts. Write about the feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long. Then, ask the Holy Spirit to transform the anger into a passion for life. Today I am devoted to healing unresolved and unexpressed anger!

for the supervisor's failure to promote us, for Boo-Boo's cheating, and for the fact that we just can't seem to get our lives

I WONDER IF PEOPLE REALIZED THE PAIN THEY CAUSE WITH THEIR MEAN SPEAKING AND JUDGMENTS