Shakti Gawain
Shakti Gawain
Shakti Gawainis a New Age and personal development author. Her books have sold over 10 million copies...
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Date of Birth30 September 1948
acceptance want accepted
Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.
lying sleep other-cultures
In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.
relationship people feels
A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.
people degrees accepting-yourself
You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself
beauty reflection reflection-of-yourself
When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.
pain people causes
I'm especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.
education children taught-us
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.
mistake order feelings
We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.
world energy consciousness
All of us as human beings are connected by one energy and consciousness. So we all affect each other and everything that's happening in the world affects us individually. And what we're each doing as an individual affects what's going on in the world.
mind balance needs
We shouldn't ignore any guidance that comes from the mind - we should listen to our minds AND balance mental messages with intuitive messages. We need both to navigate our way through life.
trying becoming conscious
Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
spiritual self essence
Spirit is the essence of consciousness, the energy of the universe that creates all things. Each one of us is a part of that spirit - a divine entity. So the spirit is the higher self, the eternal being that lives within us.
issues needs our-relationship
All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with.
successful people feelings
The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the flow - a very alive, productive, and desirable state.