Shakti Gawain (1948–2018) was an American bestselling author, speaker, retreat leader, and internationally renowned teacher in the fields of consciousness and personal growth.
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Ultimately, nothing in this life is ‘commonplace,’ nothing is ‘in between.’ The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge. [Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice. This is equally true for our relationship with our self.
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The enormous challenge is to make wise decisions about how and when to say what to whom, and even before that, to know what we really want to say and what we hope to accomplish by saying it.
Resolve to do the things you find to be difficult. That’s what confident people do. They tackle those things that are scary and they get addicted to doing it.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.