Quotes by John Welwood

John Welwood

A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable – literally, ‘able to be wounded.’ To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

Dream

Hurt

Pain

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.

People

Soul

Two

A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.

Expansion

Inspire

Soul

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.

Communication

Mean

Spiritual

Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.

Fall

Love

Lying

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

Becoming

Fullness

Mean

Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form.

Form

Love

Sparkle

Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

Discipline

Self

Teacher

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions

Breathing

Deep Understanding

Spiritual

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.

Life

Love

Motivational

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Art

Beautiful

Becoming

Breathing

Caring

Clouds

Communication

Compassion

Dark

Deep Understanding

Desire

Determination

Discipline

Discovery

Dream

Emotional

Enlightenment

Expansion

Expression

Fall

Fear

Feelings

Fighting

Form

Fullness

Giving

Gratitude

Healing

Heart

Humanity

Hurt

Inspiration

Inspire

Joy

Knowing

Letting Go

Life

Light

Love

Love Is

Lying

Magic

Mean

Mind

Motivational

Nice

Pain

People

Perfect

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Quotes by John Welwood

John Welwood

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.

A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

Boundless love always manages somehow to sparkle through your limited form.

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions

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