Rolf Gates is an American author, teacher, speaker, and addictions counselor. His work encompasses meditation, yoga, and addiction recovery.
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Why are angry women so threatening to others? If we are guilty, depressed, or self-doubting, we stay in place. We do not take action except against our own selves and we are unlikely to be agents of personal and social change. In contrast, angry women may change and challenge the lives of us all.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.
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.
If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.