Quotes by Brooks Palmer

When you are filled with inner clutter, the chaos reflects in your personality as obsessiveness, confusion, disorganisation, broken speech patterns, insomnia, indecisiveness, and lack of direction. When your home and world are in disrray, you cant relax. It takes more energy to be in chaos because you have to keep track of all the junk. Eventually exhaustion sets in. When you honestly look at clutter and ask if its necessary in your life, buried emotions come to the surface.... Toss whats unnecessary so that you can finally relax, and your remaining possessions will have a clear place to land.

This is the definition of clutter: things that exist in your outer life to distract you from the inner things that youre avoiding. If you avoid something, it grows.... The great thing is, the reverse is also true: when you honestly look at something, it shrinks. When you see the situation for what it is, bypassing the emotional layers that coloured it and made it into a clutter monster, it becomes simple. Thats how peaceful clutter busting is. Youre honestly looking at each layer of distraction, questioning the thing, letting it go, and realizing whats underneath. Looking directly at something has the power of a magnifying glass in the sun. The sun is you; the glass, your attention