Quotes About Shakti

#1. There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I am Shakti, as well as Shiva. I am everything male and female, light and dark, flesh and spirit. Perfectly balanced in one single moment lasting an eternity...

Robin Rumi

#3. Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

Roger Housden

#4. Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

Narendra Modi

#5. Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

Daniel Odier

#6. And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe's Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.

Donald O'Donovan

#7. We believe that everything in the world is a carrier of shakti or energy. The plants, animals, objects, our bodies, everything carries and transmits energy. But the biggest carrier of energy that we are physically in touch with is Mother Earth herself - the ground that we walk on.

Amish Tripathi

#8. Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Shiva becomes the destroyer, acquiring strength and inspiration from his consort Shakti, who is both Gauri, radiant goddess of eroticism, and Kali, dark goddess of extermination.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#10. Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have the power to create -

Soundarya

#11. People have unlatched the energies of the worldly self (jiv shakti), but they have not unlatched the energies of Real Self (shiv shakti).

Dada Bhagwan

#12. Shakti always said we should have a guy we wanted to keep shaving our legs for. I knew what she meant.
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Deb Caletti

#13. Indiana was such a devout disciple of Shakti that she had once considered taking her name until her father, Blake Jackson, managed to convince her that a Hindu goddess's name was not appropriate for a tall, voluptuous blond American with the looks of an inflatable doll.

Isabel Allende

#14. For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#15. That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

Vandana Shiva

#16. Lakshmi massages Vishnu's feet. Is this male domination? Kali stands on Shiva's chest. Is this female domination? Shiva is half a woman. Is this gender equality? Why then is Shakti never half a man?

Devdutt Pattanaik

#17. To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.

Dada Bhagwan

#18. Kundalini is the life force. It is given different names. They call it prana. They divide it into different segments, the apana and the samana; sometimes it's called shakti. Nice names, it is energy.

Frederick Lenz

#19. Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us - Devi Shakti

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#20. Unless it was enough for these worshipers to bask in the knowledge that, though invisible to them and in every way inaccessible to them, the swarthy handsome Ex-Athlete and the beautiful Blond Actress might at that very moment be coupling like Shiva and Shakti, unmaking and making the Universe?

Joyce Carol Oates

#21. If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

Ramana Maharshi

#22. LSD Shakti-snake settles like Gas into Consciousness

Allen Ginsberg

#23. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The kundalini shakti - the supreme energy of the divine - will take you there.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge.

Narendra Modi

#25. Shi-va is the centripetal force that holds existence together; Shakti is the centrifugal force that gives rise to the explosive diversity of existence. In

Sadhguru

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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#34. 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.

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

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#36. 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

#37. The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.

Sally Kempton

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

Shakti Gawain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#46. 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.

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#47. 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.

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#48. 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

#49. 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.

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

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#51. 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.

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#52. 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.

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#53. 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.

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

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

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#56. 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.

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

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#58. 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.

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

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#60. 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.

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#61. 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.

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#62. 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.

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

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#64. 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

#65. 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.

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

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#67. 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.

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#68. 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.

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

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

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#72. 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.

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#73. 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.

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#74. 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.

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

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

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

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#78. 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.

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#79. 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.

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#80. 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.

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

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#82. 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.

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#83. 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.

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

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#85. 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.

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#86. 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.

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

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

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#89. 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.

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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.

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#92. 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.

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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