12 Quotes by Ralph De La Rosa

When we touch curiosity, we graze the rim of infinite possibility.

There is a plurality to our being: We are one heart with many parts. We are one psyche holdingmany minds and many psychologies. This opens doors, and they are doors that urgently needopening... while we are not responsible for the conditioning that’s brought us wherewe are now, we are indeed accountable for what we do with it.

I think the point is to be as true to our convictions about the preciousness of life as we can be, to continually fail and fall down at times, and then to bounce back better than before. It’s not a problem to be solved but rather a process to discover within. And we do this in the name of love,that which is also known as justice.

To live from vibrant love in a world where degrading structures prevail—this is both our predicament and its answer.

When we talk about our ego as something bad, it’s just self-hatred wearing a spiritual disguise.

We are not one-dimensional, and our multiple dimensions are not static. Just as our bodies aremade of many parts that form a dynamic, interwoven system that works together, so it is withour psyches. We are more awake, alive, and complex than we know.

Sometimes it can seem like your inner child part isn’t receptive to your care. It’s as if this part ofyou isn’t used to receiving such goodness from others, or even from you, and they might nottrust it. If that happens, know that this is common and will change over time. Sometimes weneed to make amends with our parts for how things have been until now. Sometimes we justneed to gently continue wishing them well regardless of their reaction.

We have endless opportunities to get bruised by life and then to strengthen in our recovery from it all. And from that kind of activity comes something most precious: confidence. We become indefatigable. Ever more courageous. Outrageously courageous, even. And this is but a glimpse of what’s possible for us all.

So much of what the self-love movement gets wrong is the result of viewing the self as somekind of monolithic and singular entity. That’s how we’ve been taught to experience ourselves.But when we put ourselves under the microscope, when we take a good look inside, that viewstarts to unravel. We begin to experience our inner lives as fluid, dynamic, multifaceted, vast,and surprising.