Shakti Gawain Quotes

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

I'm sensitive to how people are feeling if they feel like they got it wrong, and sensitive to the people who are kind of gloating that they knew all along, they figured it out. I'm loving them through this process, because I know that it took me a while once I found out that it was me.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

You never want to judge your character.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Sometimes you're not like the person you'd want to hang out with. Would I really want to hang out with me full time? No, you've gotta find people who balance you out.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.

It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.

I absorb energy, I absorb the good, the bad, I absorb everything. That's what makes me who I am.

I'm not trying to act like I'm Superman or better than anybody else in the game. I'm just telling my story, showing my strengths and weaknesses - as a human, as a person, as a man.

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.