We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.
Interpretation
This quote encourages a transformation of mindset from negative emotions to positive attributes.
Angeles Arrien emphasizes the importance of evolving our emotional and intellectual responses. By advocating for a shift from fear to curiosity, she highlights the need to embrace the unknown with an open mind. Furthermore, she suggests relinquishing attachment and control in favor of humility and trust, fostering a more grounded approach to life's challenges and relationships.
In practice
Use this quote during a workshop about personal growth.
In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.
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