reine

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“If people would understand that what we are calling mental illness is really just adaptive strategies for mitigating unsafety, it would completely change the approach we take with regards to mental illness.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Truth is the only opportunity you have to create real things in reality.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“So many people are living from strategy instead of from authenticity. So many people are being strategic instead of honest; both with themselves and with others.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“When we live in a society where people genuinely feel that what matters most is the romantic partnership, we have learned that other people will value and prioritize a romantic partner above all other relationships. Therefore, you are only genuinely secure and only have leverage for getting your needs met in a relationship, if you are that person’s romantic partner.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“A romantic partner is not all there is. It is not your only hope of getting the needs that you have reliably met. It is not your only hope of happiness. A great many needs that you have, which you are convinced can only come in the form of a romantic partner, are actually not dependent on a romantic partner.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“If we see a romantic partnership as the only relationship that promises to meet our needs, we will put all the pressure on that other person to be the one to meet all of our needs, which is impossible. No one person can meet all of our needs. So, it is a set up for disappointment and for pain.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“If we see a romantic partnership as the only relationship that promises to meet our needs, the only one that will make us happy, the only one in which we can feel secure and establish a sense of guarantee, we will fail to recognize and we will devalue all of the other forms of relationships around us; as well as the plentitude of resources that each one offers us.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“People and families and cultures and religions and government organizations and educational sources and forms of entertainment have all been indoctrinating you with the false idea that marriage is the most important relationship you will have. And that the romantic pair bond is the only relationship in which your needs can be met.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“One of the biggest barriers to people getting their needs met in the modern world is that so many people glorify the romantic partnership while devaluing every other type of relationship.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Much of the process of socialization that took place in the past and that takes place today, is a process of using the control tactic of shaming so as to create the desired behavior that we want.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“No matter what your "should standard" would have you believe, the truth is that there is no shame in struggling.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“There is a big difference between feeling shame and being shamed… The feeling we call shame is a natural biological affective reaction that is occurring when we fear social consequence. To shame someone is to use the natural biological affective reaction of shame as a tool for manipulating and controlling someone to suit your own interests.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“The Spirit Knows. The Mind is capable of Lying. The Body always tells the Truth. How we use the Mind can be Seen by the Condition and Looks of the Body. Put it altogether in order to be True to the Spirit…. this requires the practice of the Sacred Art of Eating, for Creation is FOOD and what EATS. It resonates to Creator's One Law, CHANGE. Moreover, we are Creation in the Human Form.”

Roy Littlesun (1934)

“We are Creation in the Human Form. In other words…. our Body is the Church of God. Therefore the Kitchen must also be respected as a Temple, because the FOOD that’s prepared in it enters our Body, which becomes the BLOOD that in turn must Serve our greater Being. As such we can Change the World from WITHIN.”

Roy Littlesun (1934)

“True wealth is not paper, it's in the moments shared.”

“Within each of us lies the seed of destruction or creation, it is up to us what we decide to plant.”

“Real strength is not how much you lift, it is what you can let go of.”

“Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.”

“Never make one area of your life, the whole of your life - be versatile, explore new realms…grow.”

“The secret of alchemy is making the best out of the worst, and not allowing your internal state to be governed by external forces.”