Quotes from Shakti Gawain

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

While prosperity is in some ways related to money, it is not caused by money.

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive... and begin to act accordingly.

The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

We can learn to move into the unknown with the confidence that we have a guiding force within us that is showing us the way.

If you constantly think of illness you eventually become ill if you believe yourself to be beautiful you become so.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

We have to get good at being with ourselves before we can hope to be good at being in relationships with others.

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.

Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.

If we look honestly at our relationships, we can see so much about how we have created them

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.