Authentic self-healing must begin with truthful self-seeing.

When it comes to seeing the truth of our lives, the late, great author Vernon Howard taught those who would listen that "The medicine is bitter, but it heals."

How to Tell What's True From What's False Within You by Guy Finley

Everything living dreams of individuation, for everything strives towards its own wholeness.~ C.G. Jung (1875-1961), Swiss depth psychologist, from The Wisdom of Carl Jung

It seems that it is the purpose of evolution now to replace an image of perfection with the concept of completeness or wholeness. Perfection suggests something all pure, with no blemishes, dark spots or questionable areas. Wholeness includes the darkness but combines it with the light elements into a totality more real and whole than any ideal. This is an awesome task, and the question before us is whether mankind is capable of this effort and growth. Ready or not, we are in that process. ~ Robert A. Johnson (1921-present), American Jungian Analyst, from He

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. ~ Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas, translated by Elaine Pagels, scholar, from Beyond Belief

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full. ~ C.G. Jung (1875-1961), Swiss depth psychologist, in Collected Works, Vol. 9, edited by Edward Hoffman, Ph.D.

Trauma is the most avoided, ignored, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering. ~ Peter A Levine, from Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body ~

Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming, this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature, we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be. ~ The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles ~

The process of extending one self is an evolution process, where you grow as a human being. When a person is willing and successfully extending one’s limit, even for other people’s spiritual growth, they themselves have grown to be a larger state of being. The process is never ending and very satisfying. As we’ve heard, one can’t love others unless one learns to love oneself first. We can’t be a source of strength unless we established our own strength. So self-love and love for other has to exist together, not as a separate function. ~ Dr. Scott Peck from The Road Less Travelled ~

Your life’s journey has an outer purpose and an inner purpose. The outer purpose is to arrive at your goal or destination, to accomplish what you set out to do, to achieve this or that, which, of course, implies future. But if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment. The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now. Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. As you become more deeply aware of this one step, you realize that it already contains within itself all the other steps as well as the destination. This one step then becomes transformed into an expression of perfection, an act of great beauty and quality. It will have taken you into Being, and the light of Being will shine through it. This is both the purpose and the fulfillment of your inner journey, the journey into yourself. ~ Eckhart Tolle ~

"That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."  —Simone de Beauvoir