Shakti Gawain Quotes

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Everyone's got consciousness.. . Grow that ball of consciousness and all avenues of life improve. Your work just blossoms.

I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

Enlightenment is not a complete remedy.

Transcending gives a human being a chance to think before acting. And experiencing this beautiful treasury within gets rid of torment and replaces it with happiness, inner peace, creativity intelligence, love, energy. This fuels a real good life and fuels an appreciation for all human beings. It's so powerful and it's a blessing for humanity.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. As you begin to create authentic power with tools such as emotional awareness, responsible choice and intuition, you begin to draw to yourself others who are doing the same thing.

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.