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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Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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The best apologies are short, and don’t go on to include explanations that run the risk of undoing them. An apology isn’t the only chance you ever get to address the underlying issue. The apology is the chance you get to establish the ground for future communication.
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Anger is inevitable when our lives consist of giving in and going along; when we assume responsibility for other people’s feelings and reactions; when we relinquish our primary responsibility to proceed with our own growth and ensure the quality of our own lives; when we behave as if having a...
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Feeling angry signals a problem, venting anger does not solve it. Venting anger may serve to maintain, and even rigidify, the old rules and patterns in a relationship, thus ensuring that change does not occur.
The overuse of prescription drugs provides a vacation from personal responsibility.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
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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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.
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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.