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?'
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.
Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.
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