Quotes from Caroline Myss

In energy terms, depression literally is a release of energy—or life-force, if you will—without consciousness. If energy is like money, depression is like opening your wallet and announcing, "I don't care who takes my money or how it is spent.

As is our habit, he gave me only the patient's name and age and said nothing about the pain or his own suspicions. In my evaluation I saw that the right side of this patient's body, around the pancreas, was generating toxic energy. I told Norm that this man was burdened by an enormous feeling of responsibility and that it had become a constant source of anguish for him.

Our life's mission, or Contract, cannot be defined or measured simply by our external life, however. Your purpose is not only your career or hobby or romantic relationship. A Contract is your overall relationship to your personal power and your spiritual power.

When we are in a holding pattern, it is because we know exactly what we should do next, but we are terrified to act on it.

God. The notion of releasing our power of choice to a Divine force remains the greatest struggle for the individual seeking to become conscious. Primary strengths: Faith

La realidad es que muchas personas sí se curan de sus tormentos emocionales y psíquicos, y por lo tanto mueren «sanadas».

any choice made from faith has the full power of heaven behind it—which is why "faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain.

Las siete moradas es muchas cosas: una guía acerca de la vida y la época de santa Teresa de Ávila, esa extraordinaria santa y maestra contemplativa del siglo XVI; una guía para gozar de su maravilloso texto de meditación, El castillo interior; y, por último pero no menos importante, una guía para el alma: una guía hermosa, tierna, radiante, cariñosa, amorosa y auténtica, que nos conduce por el territorio de nuestro espíritu.

That afternoon I saw that for an alternative therapy to succeed, the patient must have an internal concept of power—an ability to generate internal energy and emotional resources, such as a belief in his or her self-sufficiency.

What makes us ill, however, is identical. A strong dose of negativity or fear will contaminate any human being regardless

You need to become conscious of what gives you power. Healing from any illness is facilitated by identifying your power symbols and your symbolic and physical relationship to those symbols, and heeding any messages your body and intuitions are sending you about them.

The process of curing is passive; that is, the patient is inclined to give his or her authority over to the physician and prescribed treatment instead of actively challenging the illness and reclaiming health. Healing, on the other hand, is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories, and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevent one's full emotional and spiritual recovery.

In a conventional medical treatment, the patient follows a program prescribed by the physician, so that the responsibility for healing lies with the doctor.

Land. It means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge of his life and make choices that will break him out of stagnation or misery.

healing. I now equate faith with self-esteem and personal power, because low self-esteem reflects one's lack of faith in oneself as well as in the powers of the unseen world.

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

Every choice we make, motivated by either faith or fear, directs our spirit. If a person's spirit is impelled by fear, then fear returns to her energy field and to her body. If she directs her spirit in faith, however, then grace returns to her energy field, and her biological system thrives.

friends. She made her spiritual life a priority, and each morning she and her son would visualize their lives as happy and complete—an action that tapped into the spiritual energies associated with the third chakra: endurance, stamina, and self-respect.

Una de las mayores fuentes de sufrimiento es traicionarse a uno mismo: sentir o pensar de un modo y actuar de otro, sabiendo perfectamente que estás yendo en contra de ti mismo.

Indeed, sometimes it's easier to recover from a physical crisis than from a myth crisis. It can be difficult to heal from a myth crisis if you don't even realize you're in one! An unacknowledged myth crisis can be the seed of lifelong depression and even a terminal illness.

Chaos is a powerful weapon. And we all have our weapons for creating chaos. Teresa advises us to recognize chaos as a power we use too often and to recognize that each of us has an actual relationship to chaos. Chaos is, in fact, a force throughout the universe, its own entity, an archetype of destruction and transformation that operates in every life.

At the end of the day, we all live in our own inner world created by our own archetypes, stories, myths, wounds, sense of entitlement, and curious system of logic, order, and justice.

The universal human journey is one of becoming conscious of our power and how to use that power.

For how long have you been a mass of contradictions? How long have you claimed to have faith while living full of doubt? How long have you told yourself you were devoted to living a conscious life, but have really done very little to pursue this business of truly becoming conscious?