You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
Gary ZukavRead
When you welcome your emotions as teachers, _x000D_ every emotion brings good news, _x000D_ even the ones that are painful.
Interpretation
Embracing all emotions allows for growth and understanding, even from painful experiences.
This quote emphasizes the importance of accepting our emotions as valuable teachers, suggesting that even negative feelings can provide insights and lessons if we are open to learning from them. By acknowledging the truth in painful experiences, we can gain wisdom and find positive outcomes in every situation.
In practice
In a mental health seminar discussing emotional resilience.
You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.
The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. _x000D_ Reverence automatically brings forth patience. _x000D_ Reverence permits non-judgemental justice._x000D_ Reverence is a perception of the soul.
Be mindful of the words that you use and the actions that you live and who you are and how it is you use your power. Keep clear at all times that you are what you say you are.
Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.
Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness to a leaf by treating the leaf itself, whereas the solution lies in watering the root.
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens β that letting go β you let go because you can.
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