White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another QUOTES

2 " NOBODY knows better than you what's right for you. NOBODY. Let me say what I really mean: NOBODY. Advice? Get some. Oracles? Consult them. Friends? Worship them. Actual gurus? Honour them. Final say? YOU. All you. No matter what. No matter how psychic that psychic is, or how rich the business consultant is, or how magical the healer, or bendy the yoga instructor. All that experts offer you is data for you to take into consideration. YOU are the centrifugal force that must filter, interpret, and give meaning to that data. "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

4 " I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you. "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

6 " Detachment is hard on your heart — and it actually creates blocks to what you want. Non-attachment, on the other hand, is actually nourishing, and much easier to put into practice.

DETACHED is rigid; a bit chilly, a tad cranky; like an uptight intellectual, cut off from his/her heart. And here’s the thing, detachment is often a cover up for fear — fear of not getting what you want. Detachment is defending itself against disappointment — which is why it’s a bit bitchy.

There’s another way of wanting that’s both rational and faith-fuelled: Non-attachment.

NON-ATTACHMENT is open and spacious. It can hold your intense longing, and it can hold possibility. Non-attachment knows that some things take time, that you have to meet the universe half way, that free will is the guiding force, and that anything is possible.

As Michael Beckwith said to me, “Detached is, ‘I’m not playing anymore. I’m taking my ball and going home.’ Whereas non-attached is ‘I’m playing full-out, but I’m not attached to an outcome.’” Ya, THAT. "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

8 " Own your extraordinariness and Your ordinariness "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

10 " Getting "spiritual" was delaying getting real. "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

12 " Most social and religious systems reward conformity with approval and access. We're trained from the beginning of our lives, in almost every organized endeavour, to look outside of ourselves for the right answer. Our parents, teachers, and leaders ask it of us. And then we carry on the tradition and ask it of others: Please meet my expectations. Its a snarled up mass of illusions and dogma, laced with the sublimely universal human need to be comforted and to have an effect. "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

14 " Can you imagine NOT craving to be different than you are right now?

Take a breath.

For just a moment... can you stop craving to be any different than you are right now?

Because here's the sacred paradox: transformation begins with the radical acceptance of what is. "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

16 " It's a mess. But you know what? It's a beautiful mess that we can't and shouldn't try to avoid. "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another

18 " Have strong preferences and Be easy to please "

― Danielle LaPorte , White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another