New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learned—from the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and... read more
“Then again, I've learned we all get exactly what we need when we need it, in order to learn what God intends for us to know so we can be who God intends for us to be.”Iyanla Vanzant
I now realize that lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren’t built the right way in the first place.Highlighted by 656 Kindle customers
I’ve learned we all get exactly what we need, when we need it, in order to learn what God intends for us to know so we can be who God intends for us to be.Highlighted by 526 Kindle customers
The spiritual curriculum of each life has one aim: to get us back to God. If we judge our spiritual curriculum as good or bad, right or wrong, fair or unfair, we will miss the point of the lesson, and we will repeat the class over and over until we understand that what we go through in life is the road map back to God.Highlighted by 522 Kindle customers
Until and unless you know that you are enough just the way you are, you will always be driven to look for more. Knowing that you are enough is a function of consciousness. Your enough-ness develops in direct proportion to the relationship you have with your true identity. Until you wholeheartedly believe in your own worth, in spite your of accomplishments and possessions, there will be a void in your Spirit.Highlighted by 500 Kindle customers
When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.Highlighted by 458 Kindle customers
When you don’t know who you are, Chances are you don’t know what you want. When you don’t know what you want, There is no chance for you to get it.Highlighted by 443 Kindle customers
The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it.Highlighted by 440 Kindle customers
Nothing happens outside of you that isn’t going on inside of you. That is how the law of Cause and Effect operates.Highlighted by 433 Kindle customers
One powerful lesson I learned from him was that just because a man is a good man, it does not mean that he knows how to be a good partner.Highlighted by 365 Kindle customers
When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.Highlighted by 280 Kindle customers
Prologue
Chapter 1. Here Is Also There
Chapter 2. The Walking Wounded
Chapter 3. From the Pot into...a Bigger Pot
Chapter 4. Blind in One Eye...Can't See Out of the Other
Chapter 5. Territorial Invasion
Chapter 6. The Divine Setup
Chapter 7. Ain't Nobody's Prisoner!
Chapter 8. The Personal Lie
Chapter 9. Pushed to the Breaking Point
Chapter 10. Me and Mickey Mouse
Chapter 11. Be Still and Know
Chapter 12. The Soul Sisters
Chapter 13. Things Fall Apart
Chapter 14. Truth and Consequences
Chapter 15. The Upward Downward Spiral
Chapter 16. Unfinished Business
Chapter 17. Life and Death
Chapter 18. Beyond Death
Chapter 19. Starting Over
Chapter 20. Standing in Grace
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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