Caroline Myss Quotes & Sayings

I think energy medicine is a field that is probably for me the most authentic level of medicine that there is, because it takes into account what I would call 'square one of creation'. Which is where energy meets the process of incarnating. So I think it is very much going to become the dominant practice of medicine in this next millennium. We have no other place to go but there. — Caroline Myss

Your body is your own planet Earth. — Caroline Myss

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. — Caroline Myss

Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all you can achieve is conditional healing. — Caroline Myss

The amount of suffering you actually can feel, you want to be able to do something about it. You want to be able to attend to it, to change the system that is making this happen. Because you are so aware of how unnecessary it is, and therein lies the deeper pain. — Caroline Myss

If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them. — Caroline Myss

If you have life, you have purpose. — Caroline Myss

Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one's illness or suffering,for example,was-and remains-extremely effective for people who find they cannot be direct in their interactions,Who argues with someone who is in pain? And if pain is the only power a person has,health is not an attractive replacement. It was apparent to me that becoming healthy represented more than just getting over an illness. Health represented a complex progression into a state of personal empowerment in which one had to move from a condition of vulnerability to one of invincibility,from victim to victor,from silent bystander to aggressive defender of personal boundaries. Completing this race to the finish was a yeoman's task if ever there was one.Indeed,in opening the psyche and soul to the healing process,we had expanded the journey of wellness into one of personal transformation.
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Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. — Caroline Myss

The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth. — Caroline Myss

Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job. — Caroline Myss

If you know your archetypes - and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes, through archetypes - everything changes. Everything. Because you have two things: you can see through one eye which is impersonal, and through the other, which is personal. That's the way the game is written down here. — Caroline Myss

We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into. — Caroline Myss

Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end. — Caroline Myss

Intention without discipline is useless. — Caroline Myss

How would your life change if your self-esteem improved? — Caroline Myss

To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina. — Caroline Myss

Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision. — Caroline Myss

To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction. — Caroline Myss

The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul. — Caroline Myss

When you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful. — Caroline Myss

The love that flows through your heart
purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others. — Caroline Myss

It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it. — Caroline Myss

The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power. — Caroline Myss

Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is. — Caroline Myss

The journey of life is the unification of fragmentation. Fragments are units of power that are out of control. We make agreements to come and collect ourselves. — Caroline Myss

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within. — Caroline Myss

Spiritual connection does not mean romance — Caroline Myss

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone. — Caroline Myss

Intuitive guidance 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. And, while we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned. — Caroline Myss

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it? — Caroline Myss

I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill -
a skill based in self-esteem. — Caroline Myss

Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see. — Caroline Myss

Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart. — Caroline Myss

When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels. — Caroline Myss

As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life. — Caroline Myss

Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help. — Caroline Myss

In order to heal oneself,
we must learn how to forgive. — Caroline Myss

Your biography - that is, the experiences that make up your life - becomes your biology. — Caroline Myss

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth. — Caroline Myss

Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices. — Caroline Myss

Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing. — Caroline Myss

We grow primarily through our challenges,
especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize
aspects of our nature that make us different from the family
and culture in which we have been raised. — Caroline Myss

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow, — Caroline Myss

We are not designed to be critical of others or ourselves; we think ill of others only out of fear. — Caroline Myss

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking. — Caroline Myss

consistent: live what you believe. — Caroline Myss

Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized. — Caroline Myss

Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world. — Caroline Myss

We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience. Everyone fears abandonment, loss and betrayal; anger is as toxic within a Jewish body as it is within a Christian, Muslim or Hindu body; and we are all drawn to love. When it comes to health of our spirits and our bodies, we have no difference. — Caroline Myss

I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. — Caroline Myss

Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction. — Caroline Myss

I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice. — Caroline Myss

When you are working well with your
energy, you are also making the best
expression of your personal power ... By
reading your own energy, by becoming
aware of the lens through which you see
your world, you can change your mind and change your life. — Caroline Myss

Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us. — Caroline Myss

Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's. — Caroline Myss

Our lives change externally as we change internally. — Caroline Myss

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength. — Caroline Myss

Belief in oneself is required for healing. — Caroline Myss

The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body. — Caroline Myss

If you sincerely believe that God loves you, then you're not a victim of anything anymore. It's happening to open up opportunities for us to become more aligned with our higher purpose. I — Caroline Myss

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. — Caroline Myss

We often hesitate to follow our intuition out of fear. Most usually, we are afraid of the changes in our own life that our actions will bring. Intuitive guidance, however, is all about change. It is energetic data ripe with the potential to influence the rest of the world. To fear change but to crave intuitive clarity is like fearing the cold, dark night while pouring water on the fire that lights your cave. An insight the size of a mustard seed is powerful enough to bring down a mountain-sized illusion that may be holding our lives together. Truth strikes without mercy. We fear our intuitions because we fear the transformational power within our revelations. — Caroline Myss

According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship in our lives. As our lives unfold, our biological health becomes a living, breathing biographical statement that conveys our strengths, weaknesses, hopes and fears. — Caroline Myss

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better — Caroline Myss

Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives. — Caroline Myss

It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it. — Caroline Myss

Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
It is actually the ability to use energy data
to make decisions in the immediate moment. — Caroline Myss

The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations. — Caroline Myss

Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event. — Caroline Myss

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. — Caroline Myss

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. — Caroline Myss

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs
positive or negative
are all extensions of how we define and use power. — Caroline Myss

Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the strength to make your way without needing to ask for another's permission, depends on how well you succeed at the many challenges that awaken your need to take charge of who you are. — Caroline Myss

What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read. — Caroline Myss

So long as we use comfort and security as our criteria of success, we will fear our own intuitive guidance because by its very nature it directs us into new cycles of learning that are sometimes uncomfortable. — Caroline Myss

We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise. — Caroline Myss

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one. — Caroline Myss

The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become. — Caroline Myss

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people. — Caroline Myss

From a spiritual perspective every relationship we develop, from the most casual to the most intimate, serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious. — Caroline Myss

I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process. — Caroline Myss

Of God in my life. I surrender my mind, my heart, my need for safety, and my need for rational explanations and orderly instructions to God's will for me. I trust that all that is in my life is as it should be. I release — Caroline Myss

Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me. — Caroline Myss

I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion. It's not one you look for. You don't want this kind of compassion; it just happens. — Caroline Myss

It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn. — Caroline Myss

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. — Caroline Myss

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. — Caroline Myss

I love hanging out with my friends and family. I really, really, really love articulating original thought. That's probably my core, my biggest buzz. Because then it makes me feel like I know why I was born. Reaching original thought, where I know that I'm perceiving something that only I have seen, and I need to incarnate that. That's it right there. — Caroline Myss

Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind. — Caroline Myss

Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here. — Caroline Myss

For me the information has to remain incredibly neutral. It's what I would call 'ice-like' information. I receive very rapid impressions. I don't have to sit there and concentrate. Because, if I start to really focus, my conscious mind begins to apply data, which is not accurate. — Caroline Myss

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind — Caroline Myss

You cannot come to know the depths of the purpose of your life, however, if you are not willing to release those parts of your life that are no longer necessary. — Caroline Myss

Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you. — Caroline Myss

I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter. — Caroline Myss

Healing is a different type of pain. It's the pain of becoming aware of the power of one's strength and weakness, of one's capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself. — Caroline Myss

Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life. — Caroline Myss

It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action. — Caroline Myss

The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine ... — Caroline Myss