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It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we feel both our love for this world and the pain of this world-together, at the same time-the heart breaks out of its shell. To live with an open heart is to experience life full-strength (John Welwood Quotes)
If there is one thing I’ve learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it will release its knots and unfold, leading to a deeper, more grounded experience of yourself. No matter how painful or scary your feelings appear to be, your willingness to engage with them draws forth your essential strength, leading in a more life-positive direction (John Welwood Quotes)
To allow yourself your own experience is the greatest act of self love (John Welwood Quotes)
A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level... (John Welwood Quotes)
Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions (John Welwood Quotes)
We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this is because we haven’t quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have LOVE, gratitude, acceptance and compassion (John Welwood Quotes)
The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul (John Welwood Quotes)
Love is the recognition of beauty (John Welwood Quotes)
Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form (John Welwood Quotes)
Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it (John Welwood Quotes)
The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy (John Welwood Quotes)
A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion (John Welwood Quotes)
In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we’ve gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively (John Welwood Quotes)
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are. And listen to the wind singing in your veins (John Welwood Quotes)
At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is. Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now... This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from (John Welwood Quotes)
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human (John Welwood Quotes)
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we’ve been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel (John Welwood Quotes)
There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it (John Welwood Quotes)
The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul, helping them ripen, blossom, and bear fruit, allowing us to bring forth the unique gifts that are ours to offer in this life (John Welwood Quotes)
You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are beautiful beyond measure. For the core of what you are is fashioned out of love, that potent blend of openness, warmth, and clear, transparent presence (John Welwood Quotes)
We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don’t entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love’s scarcity (John Welwood Quotes)
Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence (John Welwood Quotes)
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have to be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own habitual thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts (John Welwood Quotes)
The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human (John Welwood Quotes)
A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level (John Welwood Quotes)
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you’re striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You’re already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go (John Welwood Quotes)