Welwood Quotes

#1. 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

#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. There are optical illusions in time as well as space.

Marcel Proust

#7. I am the audience. I want to observe people. Even when I'm playing drums onstage, I'm watching people. I'm looking at them and their faces and their T-shirts and their signs. And travelling by motorcycle, especially, the world is just coming at me.

Neil Peart

#8. Oh, Eddie, it never changes, when the groom lifts the veil, when the bride accepts the ring, the possibilities you see in their eyes, it's the same around the world. They truly believe their love and their marriage is going to break all the records.

Mitch Albom

#9. The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

Ross Douthat

#10. Dont look at someone and wish to be them because you dont know if someone else is looking at you and wishing to be you

Urtear

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

John Welwood

#14. The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

Tadahiko Nagao

#15. 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

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

John Welwood

#17. 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

#18. To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make a movie that has that much mass appeal what it is? What is it that makes kids in China want to see that movie [ 'Avatar'] and makes my dad want to see that movie.

Casey Neistat

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Love is the recognition of beauty.

John Welwood

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

John Welwood