Sharon Weil Quotes

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

Loss is an inevitable part of change.

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.

Every journey towards change begins with awareness.

The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.

Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.

The nature of Nature is change.

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.

Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.

We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.

In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.

Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.

The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.

I’m growing mushrooms… because I can’t kill them. They just keep multiplying…and it’s like…I’m in service to them.

All it takes is rumor...The danger itself is irrelevant. It's the perception of danger we're selling.

When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything..." -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.

Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?

Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.

Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.

If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.

A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.

Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.

Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.

Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.

When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love.

Passion is the fire that can burn through fear.

If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.

What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.

Navigating change is the new stability.

Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.

The flow of the movement of change will be impeded wherever healing has not occurred.

In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.