DR. ZWIG QUOTES
Your problem is your teacher.
Life = Process.
An obstacle is an ally in disguise.
Your body has the answers.
Your life problems contain hidden messages.
Meet yourself where you truly are.
Processing your problems can transform your whole life.
Love isn’t only interpersonal, it’s also mystical.
What you feel is part of an unseen narrative. Tap into the plot and you can transform yourself.
Problems aren’t wrong—they’re right.
In the trash of your life lies a transformative message of change and growth. Hunt for it.
Your relationships are built on mutually entangled dreams. Process them.
To find your true path you must look within.
Suppressing or avoiding your problems doesn’t make them go away. You have to work on them.
There’s gold in the garbage.
Life obstacles are meaningful. Learn how to process and transform them.
Don’t just try to silence your inner critic; process it.
Daydreaming is your inner wisdom trying to guide you but you have to process it.
Listen to the child’s wisdom of the world.
Failure to pay attention and organize your life is not a “disorder.”
Psych diagnoses are pure fabrications with no basis in science.
Your feelings are driven by inner stories.
Obstacles are your guideposts.
To transform your problems you must set aside your preconceived beliefs.
Mental health diagnosis is mythology.
The only way to change inner and outer problems is to raise your awareness.
Process your problems.
Steal your inner critic’s power and use it as your own in a positive way.
All metrics in traditional psych research and practice are fabricated.
Distraction contains wisdom.
Beyond all your trials and tribulations is a place of peace you can always return to. Aim to find it.
Even your worst enemy is a projection of your inner psychology.
A powerful way to work on your relationship is to identify and process which part of your inner story the other person represents.
Your brain doesn’t create the contents of your mind.
Spacing out is meaningful.
What kind of personality does your inner critic have?
Break the chains. Go free.
Labelling people (or ourselves) is dangerous.
A life problem is liberation trying to happen.
Mental health issues aren’t “illnesses”; they’re powerful expressions of change and growth that can be processed and transformed.
Relationships are dreamings.
Your problem is your growth trying to happen.
Never give up on the world. Keep helping it awaken.
Don’t just try to detach from your problems. Process them.
Most psych med advertisements offer no verification for their claims.
Your nightdreams are the royal road to awakening.
Mindfulness is a beneficial but limited tool for transforming your problems.
Don’t just buy into what you see, hear, and feel. Process it.
Sensitive people used to be our shamans. Now they’re called “mentally ill” and shamed.
There’s no one permanent enlightened state of mind to strive for. Instead, embrace your humanness and learn to process your experiences.
Being wise means being a fool.
At the center of your darkness lies a field of daydreams. That’s where you’ll find the light.
Psych diagnosis makes you think you’re “sick.”
Songs are psychotherapy.
Connect with your freedom gusto.
Behind addiction is unfulfilled desire.
Slow down and meditate on your impulse desires. Hunt for what you really need deep down.
The more you cover your problems with light, the bigger the shadow you create.
Break your chains and fly.
Your problems contain hidden wisdom that’s trying to awaken you.
Don’t try to achieve one “wise” state of mind; learn how to follow your process as it unfolds.
No matter what problems you’re dealing with, there’s a part of you that’s already free. Feel it. Amplify it. Be it.
Body symptoms are expressions of your subconscious.
Envy is a projection of your unlived awesomeness.
We’re all castaways in our own way. Explore your own true spirit.
Your questions create your reality.
Don’t avoid your problems. Process them.
Your problems aren’t meaningless. They’re expressions of your deepest self trying to get free.
The poison in your life contains a hidden healing medicine but you have to process the problem to find it.
Your problems contain a meaningful process you can tap into and use to transform your life.
Every spiritual tradition has its own words to refer to the background processes that drive life and problems.
Your problem is a meaningful process, not a meaningless state.
Your psyche is an irrational wild animal.
Envy is your guide to growth.
Your life pain is trying to guide you to awaken to your true self.
A great state of mind won’t solve your life issues.
Envy is painful but it isn’t wrong—it’s a guide to your growth.
Your problem is your personal growth trying to happen.
Everything you experience—both positive and negative—contains meaningful information for transforming your life.
Your problem is the doorway to personal growth.
Your body is wise
Do you use your healing methods as bandaids or as techniques of transformation?
A mental health diagnosis is a work of fiction.
There’s a bully in your psyche.
Your true, highest self already lives within you.
The key to life, health, and happiness lies in your capacity to embrace change.
The key to personal growth lies in the darkness, not in the light.
Dream your dream and then work on the obstacles to actualizing it.
You’re one of a kind. Be it.
Usually we have the power to influence our own life. But there are times when we have to trust in something beyond ourself.
Rather than trying to simulate contentment by masking your pain, explore and process what’s bothering you.
Sometimes you have to wait for heaven to make a move.
Your ideal self must be discovered within, not from external cues.
Your life problems contain meaningful information.
Love knows no boundaries.
Your problems aren’t wrong. They’re meant to challenge you to make you grow.
At the center of your darkness is a liberating light. Seek it.
Love will always be here.
You must discover who you really are, not make it up from superficial ideas and desires.
Fear is distressing but it’s our guide to growth. Don’t run from it; process it.
Your pain is trying to awaken you.
The bipolar epidemic was caused by arbitrary changes in the diagnostic criteria.
No matter what’s going on in your life freedom is present.
Trying to get rid of your ego is a nonsensical endeavor based on a misinterpretation of Eastern spiritual texts.
Psychotherapy and music are the same thing; they both connect you with your hidden feelings and freedom.
The experiences we try to avoid or suppress are hidden messengers of positive growth.
Your worst issue contains gold.
A life difficulty is a meaningful process of change trying to come forth.
Your inner critic is the seed for your growth.
Your problem is your crucible. It’s sending you a message of change and growth.
You don’t need to be “fixed”; you just need to connect with your process.
Within your worst problem is your highest self trying to come forth.
Mindfulness meditation isn’t for quieting your thinking; it’s for raising your self awareness.
Your life problems aren’t “illnesses.” They’re signs of your personal growth trying to come forth.
Beyond all our trials and tribulations, struggles and stresses, lies something numinous.
Your problems are trying to connect you to your unacknowledged needs.
Psych meds don’t target a brain disorder; they induce an altered state that numbs symptoms.
Your desires contain meaningful information that can guide you in your life.
We must elevate ourselves and each other.
We have a momentous decision to make: Mask our life problems or go through the arduous therapeutic process of growth and transformation.
Psych diagnosis creates the illusion of understanding instead of helping you transform your problems.
A light shines in the middle of your darkness.
Your unloved yearnings can turn into addictions and other life problems.
Love is always present even if it’s obscured. Seek a higher love.
Processing your problems is more effective than trying to overcome them.
Some inner critics speak loudly while others quietly oppress you from the shadows of your psyche.
Don’t let negativity win. Rise up and go free.
You can’t think your way through your life wounds; you have to process them viscerally.
We’re all high fliers in our true spirits.
Your troubles are the shadows of the world; they contain light, wisdom, and freedom.
Neuroscience tells us nothing about the mind’s awareness.
Being envious / jealous of someone is a projection of your own unrealized greatness.
Your worst problem contains the seed of your highest self trying to come forth.
If you want a great relationship you must be ready to grow.
We’re all searching for our true spirit.
No matter how severe, your problems aren’t “illnesses”—they’re your personal growth trying to happen.
Feeling messed up is the beginning of true transformation.
Your problems are meaningful catalysts for change and growth.
To change and grow you must process your inner stories.
Your hero is your guide to your true self.
The negative father complex rules many peoples’ minds.
The new anxiety screening protocol is pure pseudoscience.
The key to personal growth is knowing the difference between content and process.
Your problems aren’t “disorders”—they’re metaphors.
A personal growth goal is useless without a roadmap to get there.
Abuse/trauma/PTSD is a severe process pushing you to become enlightened, powerful, and invincible.
Psychiatry is brainless.
The key to personal growth lies in the darkness, not in the light.
Music is transformative.
True healing and change require amplifying, not reducing symptoms.
Mental distress is very real, but diagnostic labels aren’t.
Change your internal filters, change your life.
Your psyche is not in your brain.
Obstacles contain the missing ingredients for your goals (and your life).
Antidepressants are dangerously addictive.
Your most powerful tool for healing and growth is “beginner’s mind.”
Your psyche is your sage.
You can’t change a life problem if you don’t first accept it.
“ADHD” is a fabricated label for a normal human process.
Mental health diagnosis is urban legend.
Identifying with a psych diagnosis kills your growth.
Every day we have the choice to make excuses or take responsibility for our problems.
Attention deficit is not a “disorder” (ADHD).
Want to resolve a relationship conflict? Use visualization.
Psych diagnosis disempowers us by removing personal responsibility.
One of the major causes of life pain is trying to be “normal.”
A messed up mind lights the path to liberation.
Conventional psych erases selfhood.
Your problem is your path to true freedom…if you process it.
Psychiatry is flawed by its false application of the medical model.
Life pain illuminates the path to freedom.
A psych diagnosis is an artificial label for a misunderstood experience.
Brain scans tell us nothing about psych diagnosis.
Your relationships are reflections of the stories in your subconscious.
“Neurodiversity” is a flawed hypothesis.
Depression and anxiety are meaningful and purposeful.
Problems aren’t wrong—they’re right.
Your problems are dependent on self awareness.
Antidepressants depersonalize the personal.
“Mental illness” is a fallacious term.
Psych research is philosophy packaged in scientific jargon.
Your worst problem contains the blueprint for your enlightenment.
There are only 2 sources of mental health issues—unconscious emotion and unconscious creativity.
The seeds of your healing and transformation are right in front of you. Close your eyes and focus.
Modern mind-brain theories are illogical and dangerous.
Psychology textbooks don’t educate—they indoctrinate.
The National Institute of Mental Health withdrew its support of psych diagnosis.
We fail at change if we view our problem as a “condition” instead of a process.
All metrics in traditional psych research and practice are fabricated.
Attention deficit is repressed creativity.
Mental health diagnosis isn’t objective—its context dependent.
Your life is driven by your subconscious.
Mental health labels are masks.
A relationship with someone is a relationship with a part of your own psyche.
Expanding psych diagnostic criteria = more lifelong, paying clients.
Psychiatry rests on a foundation of falsehoods.
Depression is very real—depressive “disorder” isn’t.
Psych diagnosis is a self-fulfilling system of circular logic.
Behind your worries is freedom and bliss—can you feel it?
100% of the authors of DSM own drug company stock.
To heal a problem you must follow your process.
In all disorder is a hidden order.
Connect with the dreaming process behind your reality.
Your enlightenment lies within your weakest link.
There’s no one correct way to be yourself.
Freedom lies just below the surface.
Everything is better with music.
Disrespect for nature has consequences.
Music is enlightenment.
Psych diagnoses are artificial constructs superimposed onto human suffering.
Find your own way to drop out and tune in.
The road to enlightenment goes directly through your fears—process them.
The purpose of your problems is to set you free.
Your problem is your guide.
Let the feelings move through you.
Life problems aren’t pathologies.
Discomfort contains the seed of your greatness.
Get fixated on your process, not your problem.
The person you’re envious of is actually you.
Your darkness is trying to lead you to the new light.
Psych researchers admit the chemical imbalance theory is false.
Obstacles are meaningful.
Psychiatry convinces us to confuse language with experience.
Mental health diagnosis has no scientific basis.
Nothing exists but relationships.
A psych diagnosis is a label for a misunderstood experience.
Your worst problem holds the keys to your enlightenment.
The most effective way to heal and grow is to process your fears.
Nothing is random. Hunt for the meaning in your experiences.
Being unvaccinated is like drunk driving.
To change your problem you have to become a different person.
Mental health diagnosis isn’t objective—it’s context dependent.
Don’t suppress your problems; amplify them to discover their meaning.
Mental anguish is real; mental “disorders” aren’t.
Your problem is a rock n roll rebel.
The disease model of mental health keeps people “sick.”
Researchers acknowledge there’s no “gene for” mental health issues.
Personal loss is a death / rebirth process.
Your medical illness isn’t only biochemical—it’s also an expression of your process.
The purpose of our problems is to prevent us from stagnating.
Antidepressants are the future opiate crisis.
Psychiatry’s diagnosis of mourning as “major depressive disorder” is absurd.
The term, “mental illness,” is not derived from science.
Your problems are dependent on your self awareness.
Your psyche is not in your brain.
Addictions are unlived yearnings.
Your problem is your process.
Ideology stifles personal growth and healing.
The greatest danger to our health is the rebranding of misinformation as “science.”
The #1 block to personal and societal healing is lack of humility.
The scientifically illiterate passionately argue with science.
FDA clinical trials show that antidepressants are active placebos.
Conventional psychology isn’t science.
Conflict is the catalyst for change and growth.
Masking mental health symptoms is anti-science.
Mental distress is very real but diagnostic labels aren’t.
Your negative inner story is the doorway to positive change.
Your life is driven by the tension between who you are and who you’re meant to be.
Your problems come from the future, not the past.
Mental health diagnosis is pretend science.
Attention deficit isn’t an “illness”—it’s a meaningful process.
Solving your problems requires making personal changes. Create a culture of change in your life; always be on the lookout for ways to adjust who you are and how you live.
There are two kinds of depression—repressed anger and repressed spiritual awareness.
Psychiatry preys on the public’s scientific illiteracy.
Reject society’s script for your life; follow your own process.
You’re always one decision away from living a totally different life.
A relationship problem is, at its core, an inner problem.
Your chronic problem is your guide to growth.
Obstacles are your guide.
Bad times force us to the brink because we need to push ourselves to make the changes we’re afraid of.
Your inner critic is your nasty guide to growth.
Your inner critic is your crucible.
Everything you do is an attempt to connect with your deeper self (without you realizing).
Personal growth often requires you to stop conforming to others.
Psychiatry turns us into high-functioning flesh robots.
The obstacles in your life aren’t curses, they’re your teachers.
Your problems are wise blues songs.
Folks with severe “disabilities” are teachers / messengers for the world.
Medicating our emotions long term turns us into “symptom free” automatons.
Antidepressants are the new ‘opiates’—and here comes the crisis.
You have two minds—one you know, and from the other you grow.
My client’s “ADHD” was creative high fire.
Mental distress is the golden elixir of life.
Becoming your true self is a hero’s journey.
We all have a rock n roll spirit that wants to be free.
Conventional psychology kills your true process.
Life rules are for fools.
Your hero / heroine can help you transform a life problem.
Your worst problem presents your greatest opportunity for enlightenment.
A bad state of mind is a meaningful communication from one part of yourself to another part of yourself.
We’re all ‘mad’ in our own beautiful way.
Brain scans tell us nothing about depression.
Your problem is your pregnancy—a new life waiting to be born.
The “dark night of the soul” is the journey to the light.
Mental health terminology doesn’t describe reality, it creates it.
Even your worst enemy is a projection of your inner psychology.
Psychiatry brainwashes vulnerable people.
The negative qualities you see in others must be transformed into positive qualities in yourself.
True freedom begins in oneself and leads to furthering the freedom of others.
What irritates you about others is what you need to wake up about in yourself (but not in the way you think).
Music cuts through the crapola.
The disease model in mental health encourages resignation; the process model encourages transformation.
Psychotherapy is music; music is psychotherapy.
Sometimes it takes a child to point us to the truth.
Don’t confuse the labelling of your problem with the problem itself.
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The concept of “mental illness” is based on culture and consensus, not science.
Psychological diagnosis is make-believe medicine.
The #1 error in dealing with a life problem is having a set belief about it.
Personal growth isn’t about “fixing” yourself. It’s about discovering and creating yourself.
The disease model in mental health takes way the most important element in healing—agency.
Do you see your problems as meaningful processes or meaningless curses?
Depressed? You may have an invisible inner critic.
Integrating your opposite is your ticket to growth, healing, and wholeness.
After sixty years of research there still hasn’t been a study confirming a biochemical cause of depression.
We all secretly long for inner freedom.
Don’t suppress your problems—amplify and process them.
What ignites the spark in your life? Walk this way.
Psychiatry and big Pharma take advantage of the public’s science illiteracy.
Do you see the beauty in life or do you just exist?
Behind every problem is a process of inner freedom.
Personal growth isn’t about correcting bad states of mind—it’s about uncovering their meaning and purpose for your evolution.
Fear is the gateway to personal power.
Unacknowledged needs manifest as life problems.
Life problems are symptoms of unconscious yearnings.
Processing your inner critic transforms your depression.
Depression isn’t a “disease.” It’s a symptom of a personal growth process trying to happen.
Beliefs should be based on truth rather than truth based on belief.
What messes up your life is the seed of your wisdom.
One of the most common roots of life problems is invalidation.
Many personal growth teachings are projections of the teacher’s own complexes.
Your problems are your agents of growth.
Psychiatric brain research is classic pseudoscience.
Your greatest life advisor is your death.
Heaven hides in the mess of your mind.
Sometimes “not-doing” gets the job done.
You can rise above your limiting beliefs.
Life is short. Shine your light.
Life goes by in the blink of an eye. Fully live before you die!
The core of healing and growth lies in expanding your perceptions.
Psychiatry has more in common with religion than science.
“ADHD” is a faux diagnosis.
Your problems are metaphors.
Your nightdreams are the royal road to change and growth.
Most psych med advertisements offer no verification for their claims.
Imagine you’re 99-years old and give yourself some sage advice.
The stigmatizer of mental health issues is in your own psyche.
Psych diagnoses are literally “made up.”
The medicalization of the psyche destroys personal growth.
Psychiatry is based on the personal opinions of 9 people, not on science.
The core of personal growth lies in processing what blocks you.
You can work on your inner demon!
Your inner demon is your raw, unprocessed power and creativity.
Your problem wants you to be a revolutionary.
Life problems are the antidote to our fear of change.
“Intrusive thoughts” are your guide to growth.
The chemical imbalance theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
One of the most misguided concepts in mental health is the notion of “intrusive thoughts.”
Brain science in mental health makes people unconscious of their process.
Every healing method represses parts of your process.
The key to transforming a problem is to work on your resistance to change.
To change your problem you have to become a different person.
The healing methods you need are within you.
Your relationship is a movie—what role do you play?
Connect with the dreaming process behind your reality.
Mainstream psychology is pseudoscience.
You can’t make deep change without processing your mother / father complexes.
True wisdom doesn’t come from what you’ve learned in the past but by discovering it in the present.
Medicine builds theory from evidence; psychology builds theory without evidence.
Personal growth and music are the same thing.
There’s always an unseen process trying to awaken you to something deeper.
The essence of life is change and growth, not static comfort.
Asking yourself the right questions is the beginning of making positive change in your life.
Don’t just “cope” with a bad situation—thrive.
Music is magic and it’s also psychotherapy.
Part of the stigma of mental illness arises from the concept of mental illness itself.
Conventional psychology turns you into “another brick in the wall”.
The greatest fallacy of psychology and self help is that solutions to problems are generalizable.
Always find time to do the things that make you feel happy to be alive.
Contemplate your life from the view of the cosmos.
Loneliness is painful but it has transformative powers if you use it right.
Every problem is a reaction to something.
The poison in our lives contains the hidden medicine we need to become our true whole selves.
Your psychology expresses itself through your body.
Relationships suffer when feelings and needs aren’t expressed.
Attention deficit has been normalized.
Mindfulness shouldn’t include directives.
Conventional mental health practice is based on fear.
Every relationship involves dreaming.
You need a little madness to cut the rope and be free.
Processing your issues isn’t a self help / personal growth method—it’s a way of life.
When you listen to music you’re doing psychotherapy on yourself.
The solution to a relationship problem lies in the unspoken.
The mind controls the brain, not the reverse.
Hidden within your worst problem is your potential highest self.
The mind isn’t a machine, it’s a musical process.
Hidden within our life pain and problems is an unborn voice of wisdom trying to come to awareness.
Mindfulness won’t solve your problems—you have to process them.
Psychiatry’s diagnosis of mourning as “major depressive disorder” is absurd.
Every event has psychological meaning—including social distancing.
Bad states of mind aren’t illnesses—they’re personal growth processes.
Your life issues aren’t “wrong.” They’re your personal growth process.
The most difficult part of personal growth is being objective.
Your troubles are your personal growth trying to happen.
Your difficulties are there to push you to become a more conscious person. Use them for personal transformation.
Mental health diagnosis is philosophy, not science.
Self criticism is the beginning of self love–if you process it.
Are antidepressants the best treatment or just the best way for drug companies to make money?
If you’re afraid to express your feelings, express all of them (including the fear).
Mental health questionnaires are designed to make you look sick.
Depression and anxiety are different expressions of the same process—unintegrated power.
The self-help field suffers from “prescription syndrome.”
To create harmony, first you have to polarize.
Your inner critic is hurtful but the underlying process contains gold.
To break free from the opinions of others, process them as parts of yourself.
The negative stories you tell yourself contain hidden positive messages.
The shadow of individualism is selfishness.
Feeling unloved/unvalued is an inner process.
Sometimes we have to access another world to find the truth.
A bad state of mind is a personal growth process, not a pathology.
Psychiatry has no coherent theory of depression.
A good state of mind won’t solve your problems. You have to process them.
The personal growth/self-help movement needs more social consciousness.
Imagination is the divine force, the great healer, the transformer.
Mindfulness is only the first step in personal growth.
Depression & Anxiety are meaningful processes, not “viruses” to kill.
Studies show antidepressants don’t outperform placebos.
The mind is a rock n roll band—rebellious and sublime.
Many self-help methods are overly simplistic solutions for complex issues.
Psychology says the mind is like a computer but it’s not – the mind is like music.
Changing your life starts with naming your experiences.
Psych meds don’t treat a chemical imbalance.
Every day you must choose between fear and growth.
If you feel people don’t understand you, it’s a sign for you to understand yourself better.
There can be no personal growth work without social consciousness.
Healing emotional wounds is a process that requires patience and tenderness, not a quick fix.
The disease model in therapy is an outdated paradigm; the new model is process.
Imagination is the new reality.
Feel lost, lonely, and disconnected? The solution lies within.
Anxiety always has a story behind it that’s asking to be made conscious.
Your past and future are happening right now.
Don’t resign yourself to your bad state of mind. You can change it.
Traditional clinical psychology is pseudoscience.
The more open-hearted and giving you are, the stronger the personal boundaries you need.
Talk to yourself like you talk to someone you love.
Your life is defined by the dividing line between who you are and the person that’s trying to be born in you every minute.
Anxiety happens in sensitive souls who are powerful but not conscious enough of it.
Adversity leads us down one of two paths—retreating into less or growing into more.
Mindfulness is the beginning of your freedom.
There is no one way or path to healing and growth.
You can’t let go of the past without processing it.
Comfort can kill you.
The psych diagnostic manual created the bipolar epidemic.
Life happens from the inside out. Shift the inside and the outside follows.
Lonely isolation hurts but you can use it to develop your superpowers.
Crises show us what we’re made of.
Which path should you take in life? The path of heart.
Events are not random. They happen for a reason.
Challenging times demand we change and grow.
Your mind has profound powers.
Your mind, body, and spirit are deeply interconnected.
Welcome adversity. It’s the spark to light your fire.
There are always two stories in us. The first, is the one we tell ourselves. The second, is the one trying to liberate us.
Every problem serves a meaningful purpose in your life.
Music is therapy. Therapy is music.
Don’t turn away from your problems. Turn into them. Use them to enlighten you.
Do you want to just get rid of your symptoms, or do you want to grow into your true, whole self?
You’re a powerful co-creator of your life.
Your wounding is the beginning of your healing.
Don’t just try to override your problems. Process them.
Depression is repressed anger, power, or spirituality.
Look inward to process your reactivity.
In the trash lies the treasure.
We are always of two minds.
You are not your inner critic. Observe and process the negative voice you hear.
You have way more inner strength than you acknowledge.
Your difficulty is meaningful and purposeful. It’s trying to wake you up.
Truth sneaks in through the window in your psyche that you accidentally leave open.
One does not get enlightened by striving toward the light but by processing the darkness.
Every life problem contains a meaningful message of growth and change.
The climate crisis is an outward manifestation of an inner spiritual crisis in humankind.
You have the power to transform even your most impossible problem.
A problem happens when one part of you needs another part of you to change but you resist or are unaware of what needs to happen. Which part of you needs to change and how?
Don’t nourish your fears more than you nourish your dreams.
Within an overly busy, worried mind is an unconscious striving to know—especially oneself.
Personal problems are the raw materials for personal growth.
Find your own way to drop out and tune in.
You can’t solve a relationship problem without doing your own inner work.
Jump into your own independent journey and totally go for it no matter how crazy people think you are.
Bad luck is often disguised good luck but you have to dig deep to uncover the meaning.
Don’t just try to get rid of your problems; use them to awaken you.
Your most daunting problem is there to push you to totally transform who you are.
Instead of letting your problems victimize you challenge them.
Don’t ignore your problems. Study them. Use them to change and grow.
Confront conventional wisdom and trust your own way.
Pain in your life is an alarm calling you to examine yourself on a deeper level.
A chronic problem hangs on until you use it to change your life.
Life problems are meaningful processes to unfold not meaningless enemies to ignore.
A life problem is a sign of deep change and growth trying to happen.
It doesn’t matter what people think of you as long as you follow the path of your heart.
Climate change deniers are actually deniers of their own feelings—represented by Mother Earth.
The goal of humanity should be to eliminate man’s cruelty in all its forms.
No matter what, always keep the faith.
If you can’t refrain from using your phone, computer, and TV for one day, you have an addiction.
Your problems are symptoms of personal growth trying to happen.
Trying to be “normal” marginalizes and oppresses the creative genius in you.
No idealized way of being you hear about will solve your problems; you have to learn to tap into the wisdom of your own process.
Meaningful change is always trying to happen in you. Oftentimes the first sign is pain in your life.
What fear do you have of being your whole, true self in the world? Identify what holds you back and wrestle with it, debate it, process it.
You can’t find the meaning of life in a book. You are the book. You have to open it and find out what’s in there.
Identify what stops you from being your ideal vision of yourself. This is a core part of personal growth work.
How is your inner life creating your outer life? Hunt for the psychological connections.
Don’t be afraid of being totally different from everyone else. It’s like being afraid of your best and most creative self.
Believe in your innate wisdom. You know what’s right, even if your mind tells you otherwise.
Hidden within the ugliness in your life is a beautiful song. It’s playing right now.
Your problems are trying to get a message through to you. Are you listening?
We each carry the entire world in our psyches. Keep working against hate.
Never underestimate the transformative power of your most difficult times.
Your problems are not pathologies; they are signs of personal transformation trying to happen.
To change your luck you have to change how you relate to yourself. Your outer life is a reflection of what’s going on in your inner life.
Positive change is always trying to happen in you but the signs aren’t easy to recognize. They often first appear as something negative and unfair. Use your problem as your teacher.
If you were totally free in every way how would you live your life? Identify what stops you from doing this and work on it.
Sometimes a complicated problem can be solved by something simple like remembering how awesome you are.
Believe in the power of your process. It’s got a hidden wisdom. Trust it.
In the center of your darkness is a speck of light. Amplify it.
Everything you encounter in relationships is a reflection of a process in your own psyche. Try to identify what this is in yourself.
Whatever you suffer from has a hidden story with a positive meaning and purpose that is asking to be unearthed.
To truly transform a problem, you have to amplify your experience, explore it, and unfold its meaning, not repress the symptoms.
No matter how bad it gets, there is always something transformative within you.
As counterintuitive as it sounds, life problems are actually solutions; they push you to address deeper issues that you are either unaware of or ignore.
A prescription for unhappiness is to only seek happiness in the external world. Oftentimes what you need can only be found within yourself, not out there somewhere.
Don’t just try to override your problems. Explore them for their meaning and purpose in your personal growth.
Your inner demons are just frustrated parts of your psyche that are pushing you to grow. What kind of changes are you being challenged to make?
At the core of every personal problem is a positive transformative process trying to happen.
No matter what’s happening in your life, there’s always somewhere to return to – a person, a place, a spirit, or a dream – that gives you the right direction. Sometimes we forget this guiding force, but it’s always there; you just have to remember it.
Your darkness is the light masquerading as pain.
Always remember your highest dreams no matter what’s going on.
There are lots of books out there that tell you how to be someone else. I say read the book that’s inside yourself that’s being written every day.
Follow your process. Believe in its transformative power.
Who would you have to be to overcome your worst problem? What stops you from being this person? Food for contemplation.
Your worst problem contains your greatest undiscovered power.
No matter how bad it gets there’s always something transformative and healing inside of you. Call it personal growth, God, or rock n roll. It’s there. Believe it.
Create your own vision of yourself. Don’t let other people define what you should do in life. Follow You.
If you have the courage to explore your problems instead of just trying to get rid of them you’ll find they always contain a nugget of wisdom.
Look and feel within yourself for how to live your life. Don’t look outside at the world for how to be.
If you want to reach for the heights start at the bottom.
Just because you have a problem doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you. It’s your personal growth trying to happen. The problem is your wake up call.
The disease model of Mental health is a byproduct of both ignorance and the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
Your difficulty is like a song-an emotional process with a message. What causes you pain contains the hidden music of your personal growth.
Your depression, anxiety or relationship issue is not a malfunction in a mind-machine like a software error in a computer. It’s a meaningful process that presents you with the raw materials for your self-development.
The experience of depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behavior, phobias, and delusions is painfully real, but the notion that these problems are “diseases” has not a shred of evidence behind it.
The psychology diagnostic manual is a dictionary of symptoms with no objective measures associated with them. A diagnosis of clinical depression is like a diagnosis of fever or chest pain—symptoms without any underlying principles or processes.
Psychology says the mind is not like a computer but it’s not-the mind is like music.
There’s a magnificent idea in you right now that could change your life. It’s the one that sounds the craziest.
Your problems are there to push you to become a more conscious person. Use them to help you become the awesome person you really are.
You’ve got a chance to do it right-yeah, it’s true. Don’t miss your chance to shine a light. Shine it through.
It doesn’t matter what you try to do when you’re waiting on heaven to make a move.
I’m just looking from behind the sun. I’m just having me a little fun. I’m just winging it on a prayer.
Gimme hope and dreaming. Will you make a wish that got some meaning.
Every need that cries alone sows a seed that finds a home.
Everything is better with music.
How do we make change in the world? You can’t beat people up to make them do what you want them to do. You have to lift them up instead.
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