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
The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
Interpretation
Your personal choices define who you are and what you can become.
This quote by Gary Zukav emphasizes the power of personal choice in shaping one's character and potential. It suggests that the barriers between an individual and their ideal self—including qualities such as compassion, wisdom, and creativity—are not external, but rather are determined by the choices they make. Zukav encourages self-empowerment, asserting that only you can decide to embody generosity and other virtues.
In practice
During a personal development workshop, you could use this quote to inspire participants to reflect on their choices.
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.
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.
I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.
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