Shakti Gawain Quotes

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

Personal healing on all levels - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

I saw that all aspects of my life had been pulling me out of balance because I hadn't perceived them as part of a "whole," or the totality that was "me."

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.