Shakti Gawain Quotes

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

I'm going to make this T-Shirt up saying, 'you can either be right or be happy.'

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.

I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.

We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without feeling some form of adversity. So rather than fight it, why not accept it as the way of life? Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?

We deal with our mind from morning until evening. This mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy. We should do everything we can to improve outer circumstances - remedying poverty, inequalities, conflicts, and so on - while also doing our best to achieve a state of mind that give us the inner resources to deal with the ups and downs of life.