Shakti Gawain Quotes

When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our perception, because the same person is not necessarily attractive to other people.In relationship, whenever we're drawn to someone or repelled by someone, they're both mirrors of the self. We're attracted to people in whom we find traits that we want or desire in our own selves. And we are repelled by people in whom we find traits that we're denying in ourselves. So relationship is a true mirror of where we are in our evolution in consciousness.

The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing

Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.

Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.