I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.
seek your answers within
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I find my Self coming back to an idea that I don’t remember when I was first told it or first read it and believed it; the idea, which has become a truth for me, is that all of the answers you seek around your authentic life—your purpose, your gifts and talents, where you happiness lies, etc—all lies within you. We’ve been taught to seek these answers in the outside world, which leads us to expect to find these important answers in money, titles, material possessions, opinions of others, and more empty ways. Eventually, most of us come to realize that the outside world provides very few of the answers we seek—it can give us feedback and confirmations from the Universe to help us as we find our answers within, but we’ll never find the answers that will lead to living an authentic life outside. I know you cannot be forced to understand this, as it’s something you have to experience and understand for your Self. My hope is that these Notes, the quotes I share like the ones below, the LifeDesign+ podcast, and my other creative endeavors might help you realize this sooner than you would on your own and begin to look within. And if I’m lucky, maybe I’ll get to help you discover those answers as a guide with LifeDesign+ or AlignedLife+. If you haven’t discovered that the answers you seek to find and live your authentic life are waiting for you to discover within, here are a few quotes that have been around for a very long time–this is not new information–that might stick with you
“All the wonders you seek are within yourself.”
– Thomas Browne
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Jung
“Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.”
– Michael Bassey Johnson
“Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.”
- Debbie Ford
“The inspiration you seek is already within you.”
- Rumi
See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC |
connect spirit, mind, body, and money w/ Justin Castelli
I'm on a mission to help more people find and live their authentic life. Check out my Daily Notes where I write a short note each day about the connection of spirit, mind, body and money on the Pursuit of your authentic life.
Most experiences in life that cause frustration are lessons in hiding. Once you recognize that there is a lesson in the frustration and can identify what you’re supposed to learn, watch the frustration fade away. When you realize the “why” behind it, there’s no reason to feel frustrated anymore. I had this experience today. I won’t share the details of the experience, but for most of the drive down to Leo’s soccer game in southern Indiana, I was frustrated thinking about a situation back home...
“Authenticity doesn’t guarantee everyone will like you. It guarantees that you will like you.” -Unknown See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC
YOU.Yeah, you.You are the most important person in your life.Uncomfortable?It’s okay—truth often is.But hear this:Prioritizing you is not selfish.Dismissing your Self? That is. We’ve been taught to give,To shrink,To serve from an empty well.But you can’t pour from what you don’t have.Your peace, your joy, your health—They matter.Because you matter. So tell me…What version of your Self are you living?One you chose?Or one handed down? Did you pick your path?Or just follow the signs someone else...