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

Shakti Gawain

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Shakti Gawain
Age: 70 †
Born: 1948
Born: September 30
Died: 2018
Died: November 11
Author
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Trenton
New Jersey
Deep
Wisdom
Within
Sometimes

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The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
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My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
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We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good.
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You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself
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Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
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