Who are you going to believe? The mind spins its stories telling you this or that, enticing you or preventing you, sending you off on wild goose chases or keeping you confined. The heart beats its steady rhythm keeping you alive, sending you notice of life at its most basic, nature flowing through you, always present, quietly giving you what you need. Somewhere between the two lies the Middle Way, offering the path of mindful moderation, of participation and constraint, enjoyment and self-control, freedom and will. When heart and mind choose to work together, what a wonderful thing!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

How long have you believed that you are this way or that, that you can or can’t, that you should or shouldn’t, that you are or aren’t something or another? Who told you the things you believe about yourself? What if none of them were actually true? What if you have just been telling yourself lies your whole life? How would that make you feel? There is a part of you that knows differently, that knows that you are so much more than you believe. Let that part speak up now and create a whole new world of you. Right now!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Your inner dialogue matters greatly. Are you lying to yourself? What’s really true in the repetitive things you tell yourself? Some things may indeed be true but others entirely false. Question your inner dialogue. Stop saying the usual false things and say some new and positive things. After all, today is a new day and that means you get to swipe the slate clean and start over. Start with saying something good!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Forgive yourself so that you may begin to forgive others. For there is no true forgiveness until there is nothing left to forgive. If you still ask for forgiveness then you are still bound by ideas, by blame and shame and guilt, by the entitlements of needs. To forgive is to let go of all attachments. To forgive is to free and to be free.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

You learn by your mistakes. Maybe not the first time, but do it again and the lessons begin. Life, your greatest teacher and advisor, knows how best to teach. You only have to step back and take a look at yourself to know this to be true. Let life do its teaching. Learn your own lessons and with a compassionate heart let others learn theirs. Let the lessons begin!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne