7 Quotes by Paul Ferrini

You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgmentand shining in its endless beauty.

Your commitment to other people must be an extension of your commitment to yourself,not at odds with it.

Don't make your ability to love yourself conditional on someone else's ability to love you.

Looking for unconditional love in a world of conditions must inevitably fail. Since all your brothers and sisters are acting out of shame-based patterns, they cannot offer you the love you know that you deserve, nor can you offer it to them. The best that you can do is raise each other’s awareness of the love that is necessary and begin taking responsibility for giving it to yourself.

Don’t make your ability to love yourself conditional on someone else’s ability to love you.

To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or wrong to make right. To be right, make right.

If you don’t work intentionally with the criminal to help him come to love and accept himself, he will re-enter society with the same anger and vindictiveness.