All quotes from
Maggie's book
Many of
your less-than-ideal feelings and reactions are important aspects of the
authentic self, since they are wakeup calls about things that need to be
changed in your life.
To be
true to yourself, you need to embrace your less-than-perfect parts, or you will
fall into the trap of behaving according to someone else's ideal of who you
should be.
Fear
lurks where we hide the things we don't want to know about ourselves.
To
successfully focus your emotional energy, you must learn to trust your inner
feelings and the power of your imagination.
Trusting
your internal urges is a natural process that comes from heeding your body's
signals and clearing the blocks restricting your range of emotional
experience.
To
achieve your career goals, you must be clear about what they are and why they
are meaningful to you.
Some
things in life are expensive financially, and others are expensive
emotionally. Almost anything is too
costly if it comes between you and your ability to realize your full potential.
Our most
deeply held values and beliefs are nothing more than our most emotionally
saturated thoughts.
Whenever
we say to ourselves, "I should..." we are speaking out of an
internalized belief system that reflects our inability to trust ourselves.
When you
cut yourself off from the messages in your body, you are cutting yourself off
from a flow of information and energy that can be vital to your success.
Our
greatest vulnerabilities are the flip side of our greatest strengths.
Once you
start to become aware of your authentic self, you will never allow yourself to
become enslaved to the lie of your own unworthiness again.
People
who seem impatient with your challenges may have an urgent need to
"fix" your problems so that the problems you are grappling with don't
remind them of their own vulnerability.
Learning
to think for yourself and to trust your inner knowing is the foundation of true
success. Trusting your internal wisdom
helps you to understand the patterns of your life at a deeper level.
Practical
spirituality encourages us to question everything.
Spirituality
is about freedom, spontaneity, and connection to the core of our true
natures.
Understanding
the power of silence is vital to focusing your personal power, in the safety of
silence your authentic self can spread out and make itself known.
Our real
self speaks to us through the people and events that come to us in the course
of a day.
Beliefs
are thoughts that have been saturated with our expectations and emotions. It is through our beliefs -- those ideas
about reality that are backed by the emotional fuel either of desire or dread
-- that our authentic self is able to translate the terrain of our inner world
into the physical reality of our life.
Often
beliefs hide from our conscious awareness by disguising themselves as
"facts".
