Shakti Gawain Quotes

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

You don't need the iPhone: you have the most exquisite apparatus in the known universe sitting right in your head - the most complex organization of matter in the entire universe. And here are we, feeling a little depressed, feeling like we're not getting where we need to be, when really you might be exactly where you need to be.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

The only journey is the one within.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.