John Welwood Quotes

#1. Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there - to learn, to grow, to be real, and to forge a genuine connection with oneself and others, with life, and with death. I highly recommend it.

John Welwood

#2. To allow yourself your own experience is the greatest act of self love

John Welwood

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

John Welwood

#4. 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

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

John Welwood

#6. The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Nelson Mandela

#7. When people have given up on happiness they call themselves realists.

Marty Rubin

#8. Maybe he does show himself to us, but we don't see. Maybe it's not our senses that are the problem, but our minds.

Ted Dekker

#9. The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.

John Dufresne

#10. 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

#11. Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

Ethel M. Dell

#12. Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Jose Andres

#13. 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

#14. We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

John Welwood

#15. 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

#16. He set the helmet on the floor beside the door and slung his jacket over the back of one chair. He tilted his head sideways to look at her, one eyebrow raised. "I'm not going to ask why. I'm going to make assumptions.

Paula Altenburg

#17. Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

Rene Carayol

#18. This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in 10,000 pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over 14,000 dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.

Tina Fey

#19. There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it.

John Welwood

#20. 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

#21. Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

Paulo Coelho

#22. 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

#23. May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?"
"Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to look when Jennie opened her bag.
"You do have everything."
"I have even more," Jennie said modestly. "Two windows that I left at home.

Maurice Sendak

#24. The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

Madeleine Albright

#25. A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Barbra Streisand

#26. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.

John Welwood

#27. Love is the recognition of beauty.

John Welwood

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

John Welwood