If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you would know that in early May, I finally got COVID (and it was NOT a mild case).
Because I still have some COVID brain, I am sharing words from others that have made me realize a deeper truth about my life or changed my perspective.
Hopefully, some of these quotes will make it to your commonplace book.*
When we take the pressure off ourselves to produce results at any cost, and instead rest in our innate well-being, enjoying our life, following our wisdom, and looking within for a deeper understanding of how it all works, things often seems to unfold more beautifully than we could ever have imagined. We start to notice all sorts of synchronicities and serendipities, and outcomes that may have eluded us for years begin to happen seemingly “all by themselves.”
—Michael Neill, The Inside Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever
This is what it means to live an inspired and unstoppable life. We are called to show up for ourselves and the relentlessly evolving grace within us. We shed one identity and skin, and discover yet another. We are endless and infinite. We are summoned to listen to the voice of the present, even when it changes shape, size, and direction. We are called to follow the trail of love wherever it leads. As long as we follow what is true, we will be all right. We’ll be more than all right. We’ll be amazing.
I used to think that wild success would be about arriving on top of a mountain and sitting down, at last, with the pile of coveted goodies. That’s not the case for me. Wild success isn’t a destination but an awakening, and the evolution continues, as far as I can see.
—Tama Kieves, Inspired and Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life’s Work!
The answer to “I have no idea how I am going to get through this” is: You allow yourself to sob, to heave, to feel as if your heart has a boulder crashing through it. You sit with your father. You listen to his sorrow. You get help from your friends. And you notice that at the end of every day you are still alive. And you notice that when you don’t use food to shut yourself down, to leave your body, you actually feel more alive. That feeling anything, even grief, is different from what you thought it would be. That when you don’t leave yourself, a different life is lived. One that includes vulnerability and tenderness and fragility and changes the landscape—makes it verdant, wider, breathtaking—of life as you know it.
—Geneen Roth, Women, Food and God: The Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
*A commonplace book is a repository of your favorite things. It’s also part of what I teach in my Journaling for Wholeness online course which is currently open for pre-orders.
