Shakti Gawain Quotes

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

The cure for unhappiness...It's this: What a person needs is always more than they say.

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

You need to be able to find joy in something that requires so much of yourself. I have to have that deeper meaning in my work and in my everyday life.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Maybe certain aspects of what I was doing were reacting against what was happening or what people said, too. That's something that happens when you're starting out. After some time goes by and you get a little perspective, you realize that you don't need to react. You can just carry on with what you're doing. That took me a long time figure out; I've only gotten to that point in the last five or 10 years.

Nothing outside you can ever give you what you're looking for.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

There was something missing inside me I was trying to fill up, but I went about doing it the wrong way. But there sure isn't anything missing inside me now, because you're there.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Everything I desire is within me.

It's when you're not looking for anything that something winds up coming along. It's about learning how to be just with yourself and that you don't need to be in a relationship. You don't need anyone to fulfill you.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well.

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.