1,725 Quotes About Personal-growth

When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we hid our deities and rituals in stories of saints, angels, and legendary characters. Our deities included a powerful cadre of orishas, abosom, lwas, álúsí, spirits, and god/desses. From South Africa to Sudan, Brazil to Cuba to even Indigenous Australia, we chant their names: Yemaya, Mami Wata, Atete, Iset, and Ala.

No more saying that you’re not worthy, no more feeling like you’re not enough, no more watering yourself down to make other people feel safe. No more to not living up to your own dreams and full magic. No more.

Let my path be blessed. Let the path of all those on this journey be blessed. Let the path of all those not on this journey be blessed.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

What are you speaking over your life right now? If you’re speaking fear, desperation, or scarcity, then that is what you are calling forward. Speak love over your life. Speak abundance into your life. Speak healing.

There is critical mass rage and grief for lifetimes of horrific injustices plus ancestral rage, grief, unprocessed trauma. Old systems, structures and status quo are grasping by reinforcing false power with physical, emotional, psychological violence and terror.

The most powerful ancestral or generational curse we face is our unhealed trauma.

You are not betraying your ancestors by healing your trauma.

The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time.