47 quotes found
“The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.”
“Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didnt work as a strategy, and be able to make a cours...”
“Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.”
“The nature of Nature is change.”
“Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.”
“A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.”
“Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.”
“Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.”
“Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.”
“We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.”
“Healing is essential for lasting change. ...healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. Wha...”
“The more I can accept the fact that change is moving all the time, and that the change I am experiencing right now is just the change of this moment and that this moment will change into the next a...”
“Emotions have their own movement. They move like waves: huge tsunami waves, choppy rapids, or long slow tides. The best way I know to work with emotion, especially strong and difficult emotion is t...”
“In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.”
“If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.”
“To be able to open the heart again after betrayal, injury, or loss is a precious act. It requires both courage and compassion. It requires a new movement to emerge from the depths of grief. Forgive...”
“What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.”
“Navigating change is the new stability.”
“The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a...”
“Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.”
