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Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing QUOTES

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing QUOTES

1 " What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

2 " Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss:

~ God be in my head and in my understanding.

God be in my eyes and in my looking.

God be in my mouth and in my speaking.

God be in my tongue and in my tasting.

God be in my lips and in my greeting.

~ God be in my nose and in my smelling/inhaling.

God be in my ears and in my hearing.

God be in my neck and in my humbling.

God be in my shoulders and in my bearing.

God be in my back and in my standing.

~ God be in my arms and in my reaching/receiving.

God be in my hands and in my working.

God be in my legs and in my walking.

God be in my feet and in my grounding.

God be in my knees and in my relating.

~ God be in my gut and in my feeling.

God be in my bowels and in my forgiving.

God be in my loins and in my swiving.

God be in my lungs and in my breathing.

God be in my heart and in my loving.

~ God be in my skin and in my touching.

God be in my flesh and in my paining/pining.

God be in my blood and in my living.

God be in my bones and in my dying.

God be at my end and at my reviving. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

3 " We are not designed to be critical of others or ourselves; we think ill of others only out of fear. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

4 " How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you? "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

5 " Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

6 " Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

7 " Love is the fuel of our physical and spiritual bodies. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

8 " consistent: live what you believe. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

9 " your biography—that is, the experiences that make up your life—becomes your biology. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

10 " Our lives are structured around power symbols: money, authority, title, beauty, security. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

11 " The wounded child sees the Divine as operating a reward and punishment system, with humanly logical explanations for all painful experiences. The wounded child does not understand that within all experiences, no matter how painful, lie spiritual insights. So long as we think like a wounded child, we will love conditionally and with great fear of loss. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

12 " Meeting the “self” activates the transformation of human consciousness, "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

13 " Again, we all have negative feelings, but not all negativity produces disease. To create disease, negative emotions have to be dominant, and what accelerates the process is knowing the negative thought to be toxic but giving it permission to thrive in your consciousness anyway. For instance, you may know you need to forgive someone, yet you decide that remaining angry gives you more power. Remaining obsessively angry makes you more likely to develop a disease because the energy consequence of a negative obsession is powerlessness. Energy is power, and transmitting energy into the past by dwelling on painful events drains power from your present-day body and can lead to illness. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

14 " Grace is the breath of God—an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us. It is not only possible to become a living conduit of this powerful force, grace is immediately accessible to us along with the courage to follow divine guidance. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

15 " Your biography becomes your biology”—if "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

16 " yourself at all times as an energy being as well as a physical one. The energy part of yourself is the transmitter and recorder of all your thoughts and interactions. Keep in mind at all times that your biography becomes your biology. Develop the habit of evaluating the people, experiences, and information you allow into your life. Developing symbolic sight begins with intention: consciously and regularly evaluate your interactions and their influence on your emotional and physical power. And "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

17 " Questions for Self-Examination 1.  How do you define creativity? Do you consider yourself a creative person? Do you follow through on your creative ideas? 2.  How often do you direct your creative energies into negative paths of expression? Do you exaggerate or embellish “facts” to support your point of view? 3.  Are you comfortable with your sexuality? If not, are you able to work toward healing your sexual imbalances? Do you use people for sexual pleasure, or have you felt used? Are you strong enough to honor your sexual boundaries? 4.  Do you keep your word? What is your personal code of honor? of ethics? Do you negotiate your ethics depending upon your circumstances? 5.  Do you have an impression of God as a force that exerts justice in your life? 6.  Are you a controlling person? Do you engage in power plays in your relationships? Are you able to see yourself clearly in circumstances related to power and money? 7.  Does money have authority over you? Do you make compromises that violate your inner self for the sake of financial security? 8. How often do survival fears dictate your choices? 9.  Are you strong enough to master your fears concerning finances and physical survival, or do they control you and your attitudes? 10.  What goals do you have for yourself that you have yet to pursue? What stands in the way of your acting upon those goals? "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

18 " Remaining obsessively angry makes you more likely to develop a disease because the energy consequence of a negative obsession is powerlessness. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

19 " self-knowledge promotes choice and action, and many people feel unready for either. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing

20 " We do indeed weave our spirit to the events and relationships of our lives. Life is as simple as that. "

― Caroline Myss , Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing