Various quotes on the subject of Authenticity and Vulnerability.
“Each experience in the abyss contains the great lessons in life. These can only be appreciated by looking back with gratitude on what we have learned from the experience. We must value these lessons as they renew and deepen our faith, strengthen our relationships and allow us to look upon life and the world with a new perspective. When we reflect on the person we are now we must realize we are the result of our trials and tribulations in life. Our character is not
strengthened because of all the experiences when things were normal and uneventful. We will find our character and who we are as a person came about as a result of our lessons in life. We are forged in our moments of challenge and difficulties. If we feel that our life has been nothing but trials and tribulations then we should rejoice in the bounty of lessons learned so far. However, if we continue to experience the same problems over and over again it means that we have not yet learned and appreciated a particular lesson.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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Uploaded | January 10, 2018 |
“Let us learn to appreciate fully and often all that we have here and now, lest we will otherwise learn to appreciate it after it’s gone.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“When someone fails to count their blessings, counting only the perceived negatives in their life, they rob themselves and others of great joy and contentment with their ungrateful nature.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“Life is similar to running a business, if one is only interested in surviving they make no attempt to grow or risk for the sake of growth or a vision. If a person’s vision is to survive, won't that person make choices far different than one who's mission is to grow, to leave behind a legacy, teach, help, or to make this world a better place for having been alive? By having a vision for our life that stands for something greater than ourselves and greater than our current condition, we are motivated to cross the abyss. All of life is hardwired in this way, yet through our own evolution and the creation of the ego we remain too focused on survival thereby creating a conflict that hinders our growth. In business there are only two states of being; growing/improving or declining/decaying. Moving through life we find the same thing.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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Uploaded | January 10, 2018 |
“It is surely easier and safer to never take risk in life and therefore avoid the abyss. The irony is in doing so we create the ultimate abyss in which we spend our lives. Any species which does not experiment, take risk, adapt and grow, ultimately grows stagnant or extinct. All of nature seeks expression of this life force. It is evident in life all around us as it has taken up domain in every place on earth; it has exploited every possible niche it can find. This is the spirit of life. Life is driven to exploit every conceivable strength. In the human species, it is the mind and our consciousness which allows us to connect to the greater consciousness that exist.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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Uploaded | January 10, 2018 |
"Sometimes all it takes to be happy is just a little gratitude." ~ Chris W Metz
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"Water the flowers not the weeds, a simple enough desire, yet we plant the anger and plant the guilt and continue watering thoughts. If we could remember that once planted, to withhold the water, they too would wither and die. Watering with love, the flowers would be all we see." ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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Uploaded | January 13, 2018 |
“Never allow yourself to need anything so much, that without it, your life is miserable.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"When we predicate our happiness on another person behaving a certain way, then we are always at risk of being unhappy. When we make the decision to be happy, we no longer allow any external factor to decide our own happiness. We can never control the behavior of others and so if we wish to maintain our own happiness, we have three choices in every relationship: love unconditionally; have compassion for them; or expel them from our life." ~ Chris W Metz
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. ~ Abraham Maslow
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“The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy--the less happy you’re going to be.” ~ Anthony Robbins
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“When we are content with all we presently have, we possess the basis for experiencing true happiness. Many get caught up in the trap of always needing more, the ‘if only I had X’ then I would be happy syndrome. If only I had more money, a better job, a better spouse, a nicer car, etc.. We can never be truly happy unless we celebrate and relish what we already have on a daily basis. Happiness and contentment comes from within and can never be found outside ourselves. Those that possess genuine happiness remain in such a state regardless of their current circumstances or the ebb and flow of material possessions. Joy is a state of consciousness arrived at when we are thankful for what we already have.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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“Judge not, for what you see are perceptions of yourself.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“A beautiful life doesn’t just happen, it is built daily by prayer, humility, sacrifice and love. May that beautiful life be yours always.” ~ Dennis Castillo
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"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." ~ Alfred D. Souza
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"You do not need to die and be revived to have a second chance at life. Every moment the part of us that lived in the moment before dies and the next moment is our second chance at life." ~ Chris W Metz
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"It's never to late to experience a happy past." ~ Chris W Metz
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“I take my paradise with me wherever I go. I will not leave it to fight, I will not slip away to judge, when I love I am at its center.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.” ~ Frank Crane
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Find someone who isn’t afraid to admit they miss you. Someone who knows you are not perfect but treats you as if you are. Someone whose biggest fear is losing you. One who gives their heart completely. Someone who says “I love you” and means it. Last but not least, find someone who wouldn’t mind waking up with you in the morning, seeing you in wrinkles and your gray hair but still falls for you all over again. ~ Unkown
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"Love Lives without fear, Fear lives without love." ~ Chris W Metz
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“The heart is unlimited in its capacity to hold others in love, but to hold others with thoughts of hate, anger, judgement or jealousy, weighs on the mind, eventually squeezing the joy out of it.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“Love cannot be bought, sold, seen or touched; it is the extension of an idea that can only be felt with the heart.” ~ Chris W Metz
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Love isn’t when you can name a million things about a person. Love is when you can’t even find the words to describe how you feel about them. ~ Unknown
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Try not to confuse “attachment” with “love.” Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because your already full. ~ Yasmin Mogahed
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“What can be seen, held or touched is of little value in life. Only the feelings of love have value that will increase throughout eternity.” ~ Chris W Metz
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“It is almost as if we are all playing a big game of hide-and-go-seek. We all hide expecting to be found, but no one has been labelled the seeker. We stand behind the wall, at first excited, then worried, then bored, then anxious, then angry. We hide and hide. After a while, the game is not fun anymore. Where is my seeker? Where is the person who is supposed to come find me here in my protected shell and cut me open? Where is that one who will make me trust him, make me comfortable, make me feel whole? Some people rot on the spot, waiting for the seeker that never comes. The most important truth that I can relate to you, if you are hiding and waiting, is that the seeker is you and the world, behind so many walls, waits.” ~ Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
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Uploaded | January 10, 2018 |
“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.” Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
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“When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt---you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul.” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave." ~ Gandhi
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“If I could impress you, it would only be with my love that I would hope to do so.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"Sometimes the selfish need of another is disguised as love. When someone is not happy, they seek their happiness outside themselves by loving another, but this is not true love. True love is the transmutation of overflowing happiness within ourselves that must be shared with others." ~ Chris W Metz
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“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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If I could give you one thing in life, I would give you the ability to see yourself through my eyes, as only then would you realize how special you are to me. ~ Unknown
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Real love begins where nothing is expected in return. ~ Unknown
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"Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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Uploaded | January 12, 2018 |
“Meditation is a tranquilizing sedative with no ill after affects.” ~ Chris W Metz
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"Everyone is and becomes what you would have them be." ~ Chris W Metz
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Uploaded | January 13, 2018 |
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Uploaded | February 25, 2018 |
"Every thought and every action either brings us closer to light, love and connectedness or pushes us to darkness, fear and isolation." ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss
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Uploaded | January 12, 2018 |