Anoushka Shankar Quotes

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

It means so much to be able to share myself with the world.

There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.

Vulnerability is important in life, I feel. That's what allows you to experience intense emotions, whether it's joy or pain or sadness.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.

Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.