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“We feel safe around direct, honest people. They speak their minds, and we know where we stand with them. Indirect people, people who are afraid to say who they are, what they want, and what they’re feeling, cannot be trusted. They will somehow act out their truth even though they do not speak it. And it may catch everyone by surprise. Directness saves time and energy. It removes us as victims. It dispenses with martyrdom and games. It helps us own our power. It creates respectful relationships.
It feels safe to be around direct, honest people. Be one.”
-Melody Beattie,
The Language Of Letting Go, June 1

“When I think of letting go I remind myself that there is a natural order to life – a chain of events that a higher power has in mind. When I let go of a situation, I allow life to unfold according to that plan. I open my mind and let other ways of thinking or behaving enter in. When I let go of another person, I am affirming their right to live their own life, to make their own choices, and to grow as they experience the results of their actions. A higher power exist for others, as well. My obsessive interference disrupts not only my connection with them but also my connection with my own spiritual self.”
-Courage to Change, July 21

You cannot shift your life and sit on your yeah but.

One way to get off your “yeah, but” and really step out of the box is to start practicing the end of fear. Every day, take a few moments to meditate on fearlessness. Imagine what your life could really be like if you let go of:
fear, separation, ego, limits, conditions, rules, laws, reasons, musts, oughts, shoulds, and everything else.

This might be frightening at first but if you stick with it you’ll eventually discover your unconditioned self. In truth, there is no box and there are no limits. Meditating on fearlessness will help you remember this.
-Robert Holden, Shift Happens

“It’s tough to get rid of a habit you don’t want by facing it head on. The way to accomplish it is to replace the unwanted habit with another habit that you do want. And creating new and better habits, ones that empower and serve you, is something you know how to do. You do it the same way you built any habit you have: one step at a time. Baby steps. The slight edge.”

-Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge

When under, remember the surface. When on the surface, remember the deep.

“When our days are turbulent and troubled, our challenge is to remember that the wave is not the sea. Though it pounds us, the pounding will pass. Though it tosses us about, the tossing will pass, if we don’t fight it.

Often our fear misleads us to stay in close to the shore, when the safest place is in the deep, if we can get there. Any swimmer knows: stay too close to the shore and you will be battered by the surf and undertow. We must swim out past the breakers if we are to know the hammock of the deep.

Stay on land or make it to the deep. It is the in-between that kills.”
-Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening