You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
Gary ZukavRead
The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.
Interpretation
Soul questions help you explore your inner self to discover your true essence and how you can positively impact others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of introspection through soul questions, suggesting that by delving deeper into our own being, we can uncover the innate power and beauty that resides within us. Ultimately, this self-discovery not only enriches our own lives but also enhances the lives of those around us as we share our unique gifts and contributions.
In practice
In a workshop about personal growth, to inspire attendees.
You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. _x000D_ Reverence automatically brings forth patience. _x000D_ Reverence permits non-judgemental justice._x000D_ Reverence is a perception of the soul.
Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.
No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.
But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or have not done: this is life as landscape, or life as rΓ©sumΓ©. But life is incremental, and though a worthwhile life is a gathering together of all that one is, good and bad, successful and not, the paradox is that we can never really see this one thing that all of our increments (and decrements, I suppose) add up to.
Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
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