Myss Caroline Quotes & Sayings

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

Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself. — Caroline Myss

If you don't appreciate what you have in life right now, whatever it is, you will never realize your purpose. Without appreciation, you will never become strong enough to respect yourself. — 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

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts. — Caroline Myss

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

Commitment to an idea that has the power to transform you personally in any way is a vision worth nurturing. The bottom line is,you need to remain committed to a vision long enough to see it vome to fruition. — Caroline Myss

Your biography becomes your biology" - if — 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

The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation. — Caroline Myss

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

Intention without discipline is useless. — Caroline Myss

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety. — 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

It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer. — Caroline Myss

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

When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge ... is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. — 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

We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing. — 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

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

Keep the focus of your life in the here and now. — Caroline Myss

Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems.
It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas,
flowing through dreams and illuminations.
Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however,
it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it — Caroline Myss

I have come to believe that energy medicine is a practice of healing that is dependent upon the energy of time. Whereas allopathic medicine uses linear time as a fundamental healing measure. Energy medicine needs to understand the dynamic of chiros time, that is the time without time. — Caroline Myss

People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds. — Caroline Myss

To heal illness, begin by restoring balance. — 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

I grew to understand or really grasp a sense of what the power of being humble is - that becomes a practice. Otherwise you'll be crushed by your fear of being humiliated. It'll control you the rest of your life. I really understood that. I haven't mastered it, I haven't come close to it. — Caroline Myss

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

The forgiving heart is capable of anything.
I believe that deeply.
And that's where in terms of becoming an empowered individual ...
when you get to the point where you realize you can look at someone and say
I love myself enough -
not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff,
I'm talking respect myself -
I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it. — 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 Soul is a fact, but it is not physical ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out. — 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

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

I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion. I mean, I know what I am capable of as a teacher; I know what I'm capable of because of my intelligence. But I also know that that's useless if - I have been humiliated so often, when I think that I can combat the terrors of life with intelligence. Because you can't. It'll bring you to your knees. — Caroline Myss

Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through reflection and contemplation; they knew how to share the gift of illumination with each other. These are great gifts of life and profound grace that we are capable of providing for each other and the world. This is what it means to be a mystic without a monastery. You make a commitment to your own interior illumination and through that discover the "sacred" part of your "contract" and the true meaning of your highest potential. — Caroline Myss

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things - the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos - are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul. — Caroline Myss

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

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

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

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

Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul ... It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth. — Caroline Myss

There are no insignificant relationships. Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies an energetic fragment of our own psyche and soul. Our individual spiritual task is to recognize and integrate all of them into our awareness so that the greater pattern of our mission can shine forth in its full dimensions. — Caroline Myss

A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter — Caroline Myss

My prayer today is to become more mindful of my personal actions. What motivates me to do what I do and to say the things I do to others? I often dismiss my actions because of stress or anger but the people I hurt along the way do not dismiss what I've said or done. Every action and every word carries a consequence. Every person has stress and every person has anger. I would not like to be someone's target and I ask for the grace to become more mindful not to harm others just because I am having a bad day. — Caroline Myss

Get bored with your past, it's over! — Caroline Myss

People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn't belong to them. — Caroline Myss

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you. — Caroline Myss

Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world. — Caroline Myss

Whenever you become empowered,
you will be tested. — 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

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

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

That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies. — Caroline Myss

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

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

The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create. — Caroline Myss

Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life. — Caroline Myss

This day of your life will never come again. — Caroline Myss

How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you? — Caroline Myss

Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them. — Caroline Myss

By learning to identify your energy patterns, you will be able to gain a much greater vision of the meaning and purpose of your many experiences and relationships. — Caroline Myss

Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional. — Caroline Myss

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me. — Caroline Myss

Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about. — Caroline Myss

I have often imagined that people who carry on about how God "thinks" human beings should behave must appear to be complete fools to the divine. — Caroline Myss

Master your responses to external events
don't attempt to control them. — Caroline Myss

Seeing and admitting the truth about ourselves, about our role in creating our own problems, and about how we relate to others is vital for healing. — 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

Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day. — Caroline Myss

Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions. — 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

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

When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why'. — 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

For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up. — Caroline Myss

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

You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you. — 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

There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed. — Caroline Myss

You are afraid of your own empowerment
as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered. — Caroline Myss

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

Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness, — Caroline Myss

The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning. — 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

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer. — 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