Discerning love from manipulation is about honoring your inner experience, 

your experience of the energy rather than just of the actions. 

To do this, you need to move beyond relying on sight 

and instead start to rely on your feelings. 

The energy of love feels good. It feels safe and nurturing. 

It feels clean and light and refreshing. 

The energy of manipulation feels heavy, draining, dark and lonely. 

It feels limiting and oppressive rather than freeing. 

It weakens your own energy instead of supporting it. 

When you are tuned in to your inner experience, 

you can feel the pull that occurs when someone’s intention is to get love rather than give it, or when they are giving in order to get.

Dr. Margaret Paul

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'When did loving yourself become so rare, that it’s revolutionary to do so?'

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. 

It’s a relationship between equals. 

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognise our shared humanity.

Pema Chödrön

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Have the courage

The audacity

The bare raw honesty

To transform

Into the truest

Version

Of you.

Jeanette LeBlanc

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As we strive to become more aware of ourselves, 

we have  to see more of ourselves and that includes more of our shadow.

Carolyn Myss

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