A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
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Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth.
I don’t think there’s such a thing as a bad emotion. The only bad emotion is a stuck emotion.
I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.
Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve.
Fear is the friction in all transitions.
At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.
It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.
Belief traps or frees us.
It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul.
When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.
I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It’s like watching a rose bush grow.
I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.
Cancer changes your whole life.
All natural processes are long processes and they last.
I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people’s lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.
People are waking up in their homes – without conferences. They’re waking up because life is waking them up, not because of some conference called “Body and Soul.”