CHERI HUBER

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

It takes a tremen­dous act of courage to admit to your­self that you are not defec­tive in any way what­so­ever.

When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.

Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

That which you seek, is causing you to seek.

Going in the wrong direction but making really good time

Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)

If you want to feel a certain way, feel it now.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.