40 Quotes by Saskia Lightstar

Do you wanna know a secret? Fear is not real.

Let me tell you right now that the ego is the most cunning and devious creature you will ever have to deal with. There is no man, woman, child, animal, rock, mineral, tree or sea monster you will ever meet that is as dark, pessimistic or challenging.

You can love yourself better than anyone else can love you.

Shimmy over to the passenger seat, put on your seat belt, wind down the window, feel the breeze on your face and just enjoy the ride. Let your Higher Power do the driving. Your Higher Power wants you to live your greatest life and it knows the way you should be going in order to get there.

Change isn’t bad. Transformation isn’t bad. Growing, evolving, learning and renewing: these are the things that take our lives to a new level, the things that open our eyes to a whole new way of being, to experiencing a peace and happiness we never knew existed.

Prayer is simply a vertical conversation with the powers that be, rather than a horizontal conversation with other people.

We’re stuck with ourselves all the time, with the thoughts that race around our brains at 10,000 mph, with our feelings, with our daily dramas and our ongoing struggles. But by thinking about someone else, authentically listening to and connecting with another person, you focus less on all your own strife and struggles. You get a break from you.

For some of us, the hardest part of the cancer journey is surviving life AFTER treatment, the doctor tells us we should return to our lives and put the experience of cancer behind us but going through treatment fundamentally changes you forever and it’s impossible to go back to the life we knew before.

Those of us who have been through cancer know that surviving treatment isn’t where the journey ends. In fact, for many of us, this is when the hardest part of the cancer journey begins.