Susan Piver Quotes.

1. "Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment."
- Quote by Susan Piver

2. "Meditating with a goal or in order to accomplish something is not giving the practice a fair shake.Instead let yourself off the self-improvement treadmill, and simply be with yourself in your natural state. The practice isn't about achieving something. It's about letting go."
- Susan Piver, How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life: Opening Your Heart to Confidence

3. "Tranquility, compassion, and wisdom are the components of fearlessness, not power, control, and remaining unaffected."
- Susan Piver, How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life: Opening Your Heart to Confidence

4. "as unlikely as it may sound, in fact this sorrow is the gateway to lasting happiness, the kind that can never be taken from you."
- Susan Piver, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: An Uncommon Guide to Healing

5. "Our culture generally views tears and what may lie behind them—sadness, anger, disappointment, fear—as signs of a problem. Something has gone wrong. Somebody needs to figure out who screwed up so we can set this thing right. But tears are actually sweet things. They are signs of authentic feelings. Of"
- Susan Piver, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: An Uncommon Guide to Healing

6. "Instead of making it safe, love—whether for all beings or for one—actually breaks your heart. Being loved is uncomfortable; and the more I love, the more uncomfortable it is. In the end, I’m still not quite sure what I’ve vowed to do either as a wife or a bodhisattva, except to break my own heart, over and over. And to see what happens next."
- Susan Piver, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: An Uncommon Guide to Healing

7. "In addition, it has been demonstrated that meditation can help with the following: lowering blood pressure decreasing symptoms in illnesses with a stress-related component (ulcers, for example) decreasing serum cholesterol levels reducing muscular tension reducing oxygen and energy consumption improving sleep In short, it has been scientifically proven that meditation is awesome."
- Susan Piver, Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation

8. "If you’ve ever wished for a friend who would love you as you are, appreciate your genius, and make space for your foibles, welcome you when you’re funny and shiny and when you’re a complete mess—well, I can introduce you to this person. Rather, your meditation practice can. He or she has been there the whole time. You are the one you’ve been waiting for, as they say."
- Susan Piver, Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation

9. "I want full-on emotional, sexual, spiritual passion—not the torments of fights and jealousies, but the power of engaging deeply, from the bottom of my heart, with my lover’s heart, with lots of ebb and flow in both passion and friendship, periods of great agreement and great distance, but always coming back to each other, to self, to commitment, together."
- Susan Piver, The Hard Questions: 100 Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do"