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
When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that growth in a relationship stems from self-discovery rather than trying to alter one another.
Gary Zukav suggests that in intimate relationships, the focus should shift from trying to change one's partner to using the shared experiences as opportunities for personal growth and understanding. This perspective fosters a more profound connection, referred to as 'spiritual partnership,' where both individuals support each other's journeys toward self-awareness and authenticity.
Themes
RelationshipsSelf-DiscoveryGrowthIntimacySpirituality
In practice
Example use cases
In a relationship advice workshop, to encourage couples to focus on personal growth rather than changing each other.
More from Gary Zukav
All quotes →The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.
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.
Gary ZukavRead
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.
Gary ZukavRead
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.
Gary ZukavRead
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.
Gary ZukavRead
Similar quotes
I do not think homosexuality is immoral.
Hillary ClintonRead
Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?
Alice MunroRead
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
TacitusRead
Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.
Junot DiazRead
Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.
Margaret J. WheatleyRead
Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now... (Much Ado About Nothing)
William ShakespeareRead