Shakti Gawain Quotes

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

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.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

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.

Remind people who they are instead of just complimenting them on what they've done.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.