Gawain Quotes

#1. I did not do it for you, sire." Gawain was deadly serious now. "Death comes to us and all mortals. I shall still lose you one day. But Logres! The only perfection under heaven would fall if I could not save you.

Suzannah Rowntree

#2. I know what you be thinking, an' you be wrong. Different Gawain, no relation to the Gawaine that were in Arthur's court. But he is knighted, I believe, because he carries a mighty sword with him under that great-cloak." "Well, bugger me! A Crusader!

Adam Copeland

#3. Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it - and Gawain's posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. Do not deceive yourself, Gawain. There are black places in the heart of every man.

Suzannah Rowntree

#5. There was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. My good sir, is she your daughter then?'
'Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,' said the lord. 'She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.'
'Indeed,' said my lord Gawain, 'then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants.

Chretien De Troyes

#7. I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

Gerald Morris

#8. In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

Shakti Gawain

#9. Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

Stefan Emunds

#10. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#11. The world eclipses and it's just her and him. No it's just her eyes and his soul. Her eyes expose and violate him, she turns him inside out. Then, her eyes drop him like a boring toy.

Stefan Emunds

#12. Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle with something, it's hard to see it as a gift, but in retrospect, we can almost always look back and say, "Oh, I see why I had to go through that."

Shakti Gawain

#13. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

#15. I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

#18. When you're riding a bike you're more connected to the outdoors and to other people than you are when you are stuck in your car.

Shakti Gawain

#19. When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

Shakti Gawain

#20. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#21. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

#24. The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.

Shakti Gawain

#25. You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Shakti Gawain

#26. The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

Shakti Gawain

#27. I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.

Shakti Gawain

#28. The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it.

Stefan Emunds

#29. If I could identify one core problem about the world, it's that we've been taught to distrust ourselves.

Shakti Gawain

#30. At least I'm the one leaving. It's so much easier to leave than to be left.

Stefan Emunds

#31. It isn't necessary to be perfect to be a channel for the universe. You just have to be real- be yourself. The more real, honest, and spontaneous you are, the more freely the creative force can flow through you.

Shakti Gawain

#32. Spiritual healing occurs as we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being - the wise, loving, powerful, creative entity that we are at our core.

Shakti Gawain

#33. We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I beleive that we're here to master the process of creation - to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form.

Shakti Gawain

#34. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#35. Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

Shakti Gawain

#36. As you learn to be true to yourself, you will find that you attract people, work, and other circumstances that reflect your evolution and development.

Shakti Gawain

#37. There is no separation between us and God-we are divine expressions of the creative principle ... there can be no real lack or scarcity; there is nothing we have to try to achieve or attract; we contain the potential for everything within us.

Shakti Gawain

#38. We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

Shakti Gawain

#39. When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

Shakti Gawain

#40. I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

Shakti Gawain

#41. My inner guidance is there for me to call on anytime I need or want extra clarity, wisdom, knowledge, support, creative inspiration, love, or companionship.

Shakti Gawain

#42. All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with.

Shakti Gawain

#43. I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.

Shakti Gawain

#44. One law of energy is this: energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality and vibration.

Shakti Gawain

#45. All of us as human beings are connected by one energy and consciousness. So we all affect each other and everything that's happening in the world affects us individually. And what we're each doing as an individual affects what's going on in the world.

Shakti Gawain

#46. Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve. As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.

Shakti Gawain

#47. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#48. People who really want to be in a relationship are IN one.

Shakti Gawain

#49. I think in the Western world we have gotten overly identified with doing, and we've kind of forgotten about the art of being. And we don't see value in it; we think that if you're not doing something all of the time, being very active and producing something, then you're sort of wasting your time.

Shakti Gawain

#50. Personal healing on all levels - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies ... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.

Shakti Gawain

#51. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

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#52. People with little money seldom realize that people who have a lot of money are also frightened ... If security is based on having money, it doesn't matter whether you have a little or a lot, you're going to be afraid.

Shakti Gawain

#53. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#54. By viewing our relationships with friends, family, and co-workers as mirrors, as teachers - we see that they are reflecting back to us exactly what we most need to learn.

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#55. We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

Shakti Gawain

#56. Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

Shakti Gawain

#57. Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

Shakti Gawain

#58. Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

Shakti Gawain

#59. The body is our primary feedback mechanism which can show us what is and isn't working about our ways of thinking, expressing, and living. As we live our truth more fully and freely, our body grows healthier, stronger, and more beautiful.

Shakti Gawain

#60. When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Shakti Gawain

#61. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

Shakti Gawain

#62. May you be blessed with everything your heart desires.

Shakti Gawain

#63. Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence.

Shakti Gawain

#64. We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.

Shakti Gawain

#65. Since money is energy, our financial affairs tend to reflect how our life energy is moving. When your creative energy is flowing freely, often your finances are as well. If your energy is blocked, your money does too.

Shakti Gawain

#66. We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Shakti Gawain

#67. Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

Shakti Gawain

#68. Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.

Shakti Gawain

#69. No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

Shakti Gawain

#70. Wake up! You're a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.

Stefan Emunds

#71. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#72. Through lovingly embracing the full range of our experience- human and divine- we can heal the split that existed between the spirit and the form, in ourselves individually and in the whole world.

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

#74. As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.

Shakti Gawain

#75. Not being in touch with your vulnerability and not learning to own it and accept it and be comfortable with it leaves you in a position where you're liable to look at and judge other people for being vulnerable because they're reflecting that part of yourself that you're not comfortable with.

Shakti Gawain

#76. Our relationship to money reflects how we feel about our power to affect the world. Since money is a mirror of our consciousness, the more comfortable we are with being powerful, the more money we are likely to create in our lives.

Shakti Gawain

#77. Spirit is the essence of consciousness, the energy of the universe that creates all things. Each one of us is a part of that spirit - a divine entity. So the spirit is the higher self, the eternal being that lives within us.

Shakti Gawain

#78. Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

Shakti Gawain

#79. One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.

Shakti Gawain

#80. Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Shakti Gawain

#81. As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.

Shakti Gawain

#82. Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful

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#83. As we begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channels open and we access the infinite vitality of life force.

Shakti Gawain

#84. In order to heal themselves, people must recognize, first, that they have an inner guidance deep within and, second, that they can trust it.

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

#87. What we create within is mirrored outside of us.

Shakti Gawain

#88. Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen.

Shakti Gawain

#89. Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.

Shakti Gawain

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

Shakti Gawain

#91. We shouldn't ignore any guidance that comes from the mind - we should listen to our minds AND balance mental messages with intuitive messages. We need both to navigate our way through life.

Shakti Gawain

#92. Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

Shakti Gawain

#93. Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.

Shakti Gawain

#94. Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally 'count our blessings,' give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.

Shakti Gawain

#95. A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

Shakti Gawain

#96. 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.

Shakti Gawain

#97. Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you - work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.

Shakti Gawain

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

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#99. You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Shakti Gawain

#100. Every moment presents a new opportunity and a new decision.

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