Casey Wilson Quotes

And freedom comes with grace, kindness, understanding, and love. Don't take anything personal, folks. Whatever is said about you or rumored or you heard something - you haven't done anything wrong and it's not your fault. That is your own self-invisible anchor that will stop your boat of life from going forward.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

There's a deli around the corner from my office where I'd get a bag of chips with my sandwich, and I was hiding them under my sandwich because I was embarrassed. When I had this epiphany that I was hiding the potato chips from myself, I realized there was an opportunity there.

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

I really don't have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.