When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Shakti GawainRead
Personal healing on all levels - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.
Interpretation
Personal healing involves recognizing and integrating all parts of ourselves.
This quote emphasizes the significance of acknowledging and embracing all facets of our being—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—for true personal healing. By reconnecting with disowned energies and integrating these aspects, we move towards a state of wholeness and health, highlighting the holistic nature of self-acceptance and personal growth.
In practice
Using this quote to inspire a personal development workshop focused on self-acceptance.
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.
... consciousness is an ever-unfolding, deepening, and expanding process with no end point. We are infinite and complex beings, and our human journey involves not just a spiritual awakening, but the development of all levels of our being - spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical - and the integration of all these aspects into a healthy and balanced daily life.
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.
My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
Information work is thinking work.
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Work is always an antidote to depression.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
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