228 Quotes by Shakti Gawain

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

All of us as human beings are connected by one energy and consciousness. So we all affect each other and everything that’s happening in the world affects us individually. And what we’re each doing as an individual affects what’s going on in the world.

When I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

We don’t have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally ‘count our blessings,’ give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.

We live in a culture that doesn’t acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn’t encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

I’m especially interested in relationships since that is a part of life that causes enormous pain for many people.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what “it” wanted me to do.