"The deepest reality you are aware of is the one from which you draw your power."

                                                                                   - Deepak Chopra

"It's no use waiting for your ship to come in, unless you've sent one out."

                                                                                    - Belgian proverb

When you have the courage of your convictions, you "interact easily with other people, secure within, easily distinguishing" your own thoughts, feelings, and values from those around you. You feel "neither vulnerable to outside influences and opinions, nor compelled to impose" your standards or feelings on others. True to yourself you feel "protected and receptive, articulate and inspired, righteous and sure."

                                                                       - abstracted from Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine, by Harriet Beinfield, L.Ac. and Efrem Korngold, L.Ac., O.M.D.

"What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."

                                                                        - Shakti Gawain

"Wisely letting go saves your energy, clears your mind, gives you sharper insights, enables you to enjoy the here-and-now moment in your life and helps you increase your love for yourself and all other people."

                                                     - Ken Keyes, Jr. Prescriptions for Happiness

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"

                                                                        - Louise Bogan

"Oh, my my. Oh, hell yes."

                                                                      - Tom Petty

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