Teal Swan Quotes:

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"If you want a happy life, and we all do... If you want to find out who you really are, and we all do... You are going to have to take the risk of being YOU.” ~Teal Swan

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“Observing and then letting go is one of the most important skills to acquire in the quest to create positive change, as is the knowledge of stillness.” ~Teal Swan

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"Be conscious and careful of every thought form that you focus on and thus breathe your life force into because your consciousness is creating the world around you.” ~Teal Swan

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"Realizing unconditional love is like finding a needle in a haystack. If we want to find a needle in a haystack, we have to put it there ourselves. We do this by practicing unconditional love with ourselves." ~Teal Swan

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"Authenticity is the highest state of being that a spiritual practitioner can achieve. In fact in the years to come, authenticity will become the replacement for enlightenment as the true goal of our spiritual practice." ~Teal Swan

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"If you are unhappy, look at the things you do every day. You can’t do the same things every day and get different results in terms of how you feel. So do different things. If you do different things every day, you will start to see different results." ~Teal Swan

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"We came to earth to experience the illusion of separation so that by seeing it we could reverse the process of separation. Not so we could propagate it." ~Teal Swan

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"If we don’t dare to dream, we will never have a different life. We will never know what is truly possible." ~Teal Swan



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"We are powerless the minute we try to control what was in the past because we cannot touch it. So instead you must change what you can touch, the now. Shape it into what you want it to be... the future.” ~Teal Swan

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"You will start living a life that is worth living for, as soon as you start thinking and saying and doing things that are worthy of your life" ~Teal Swan

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"The reason we suffer from anything, is not because of the thing itself, but because of our resistance to it.” ~Teal Swan

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"Awareness does not always feel good. However, if we make feeling good more important than awareness, we will choose denial and we will choose to pretend. And by doing so, we will condemn the earth and ourselves along with it." ~Teal Swan

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"The change you desire to take place will automatically begin occurring the minute that you become aware of the purpose behind your undesired thought, undesired behavior or undesired state of being." ~Teal Swan

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"To hold on to the past always creates suffering, even if it was wonderful." ~Teal Swan

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"The day you betrayed yourself completely, was the day that you decided you would only be with yourself based on the condition that you felt good. So you have been trying to feel good all your life, so you could be with yourself and feel whole again... instead of realizing that you could just decide to be with yourself here and now, regardless of how you feel." ~Teal Swan

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"Until we fully awaken, the angels that come to free us will appear to us as demons, for it is not their prerogative to give us the unconditional love that we crave. It is their prerogative to show us what is preventing us from giving and receiving unconditional love.” ~Teal Swan

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"If anything other than what you think you want to have happen occurs, it is because of one of two things: 1) You yourself, are resisting what you desire with something you are thinking, believing or doing.

2) You are in denial of what you truly desire, while you have been simultaneously subconsciously informing the universe of what you truly desire; and so the universe is responding to the deeper, stronger truth of what you really desire.” ~Teal Swan

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"We come to love learning, by releasing our attachment to knowing. We release our attachment to knowing by facing and releasing our fears about not knowing.” ~Teal Swan

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"It takes a tremendous amount of courage for us to stop beating ourselves up and let go of the illusion that we are unacceptable and inherently bad the way we ARE. As humans, we are deeply afraid that if we don't punish ourselves on a daily basis that nothing will drive us to success or to goodness. This is a lie we've been conditioned to believe. Time to let it go.” ~Teal Swan

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"By eradicating pain, you eradicate the motivator for change. By eradicating the motivator for change, you halt both personal and universal expansion.” ~Teal Swan

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"After I die, the spiritual teachers that will come to teach you, will make my teachings obsolete. Like all things that are born, they are meant to die in this way. So I say, let my teachings die and do not cling to them. Let them be replaced in your heart by something even better. For this, is the beauty of expansion.” ~Teal Swan

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"Your true self (higher self as some call it) has not GONE anywhere. It is with you all the time, waiting for the very moment that you go looking for it.” ~Teal Swan

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"Negative emotion is always the red flag alerting you to the fact that there is something there to learn. It is always alerting you that you have come to the crossroads of personal expansion. But if you avoid the negative feeling, you also avoid the lesson and the expansion.” ~Teal Swan

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"The defining moments of your life, rarely announce themselves loudly. It’s more like you look back over time and see them as the day it all began.” ~Teal Swan

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"What are we here to do? We are here to cause the expansion of this universe by giving rise to new thought. We are here to line up with that thought and thus have the physical experience of the thought which we have given rise to.

We do this by following the feeling of joy. We do this by generating enough love within ourselves to not only experience what it is to be the best of that which we could call human, but also to snap the chains of human limitation." ~Teal Swan

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"When you fall in love with the idea of someone, you fall in love with the character that an actor is playing in your own individual game of pretend." ~Teal Swan

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"All too often meditation becomes our way to control ourselves rather than our way to become aware of ourselves and respond to ourselves according to that awareness." ~Teal Swan



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"The danger of being able to alter your perception about any experience is that you can see anything how you want to see it. By doing so you run the very real risk of escaping reality and therefore never really changing it.

You can sit in a jail cell convinced it is a palace. You can pretend something that feels good instead of letting the pain of seeing things as they really are, motivate change." ~Teal Swan

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"All too often our personality is nothing more than psychological clothing that we wear to hide our true self from the world.” ~Teal Swan

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"Many people believe that faith is the absence of doubt. This could not be further from the truth. We only think that faith is the absence of doubt when we confuse faith with knowing." ~Teal Swan

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"It is time to talk of detachment. Detachment does not mean to remove oneself from the experience and not let it impact you. Quite the opposite, it means to let the experience penetrate you completely. If you try to avoid going all the way through the emotions of experience, you will never be detached.

To become detached means to dive into the experience and the depths of the emotions so far that you drop out the other side. With full understanding. It is that very understanding you come out with that enables you to say "Now that I fully know, I can let go". THAT is detachment.” ~Teal Swan

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"If we drop the way we think it 'should' go and let ourselves take a back seat to the experience and where that experience takes us, we find ourselves arriving at an improved life that is even better than the one we had before and even better than the one we could imagine." ~Teal Swan

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"If we have any hope of healing, moving forward or being fully present in the here and now, we must stop trying to chase and create the fantasy we have of how our lives 'should' have gone. Instead, we must bury our fantasy of how we wish the past would have gone and we must move forward with what we do have from where we actually are.” ~Teal Swan

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"In order to integrate something, heal it, or move beyond it, we must first own or claim it. Whatever we cannot own or claim within us, we will project onto others." ~Teal Swan

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"It is easy to become discouraged when we realize how much the past effects the "now". But we can also look at this truth and realize how much the now effects the future. This can give rise to much hope if we let it that the future changes the second we change the now.

We create the future we want to see by taking incremental steps to becoming what we want to see in the very moment we are standing in. Here and Now. So... What are you waiting for?" ~Teal Swan

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"Living hell is the state of running from the inner fire of our unwanted emotions, looking for escape routes (of which there are plenty); only to discover that every escape route is in fact a dead end. The only way out, is in.” ~Teal Swan

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"Death is nothing more than a withdrawal of consciousness. And though our limited senses do not make it seem so, the loved ones who have experienced a physical death are closer to you in death than they even were in life. Because for them, there is no distance, space or time." ~Teal Swan

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"Mankind undervalues visualization, because we have been lead to believe that thoughts are the cast off abstractions of the brain. But visualization, is source's attribute of creation which is acting through the mind of mankind.

As extensions of source, whenever we visualize, we bring forth the essence of what we visualize into visible, tangible, physical experience. No form ever came into existence without someone consciously holding a picture of that form first in his or her thoughts." ~Teal Swan

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"We need to let ourselves and others fall apart completely with the knowledge that falling apart is crucial in order for us to be transformed." ~Teal Swan