"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else." -- Wayne Dyer
"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are."-- Julia Cameron
What are your thoughts (spiritually speaking) when you read them?
2007-12-12 06:43:04 · 13 answers · asked by Kallan 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I enjoyed those quotes, thanks for sharing.
I think a few answerers missed a small point, though. I think the quotes do advocate being content with who we are but I also think that are suggesting that we look within ourselves for personal growth instead of looking to outside sources and external factors for growth and happiness.
2007-12-12 06:50:51 · answer #1 · answered by Christy ☪☮e✡is✝ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
More than a little off base - but that is the problem - there is just enough truth to make it sound good. Obviously.. not everything is alive, the mysteries of life have a great deal to do with intelligence - What the heck does "The universe is not an intellectual process" mean? and the last sentence is just skewed - we need to think for ourselves when we see this stuff. Be very afraid.
2016-05-23 06:05:58 · answer #2 · answered by jeniffer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that we start right where we are - it's kind of hard not to. However, we should always strive for something greater.
With the first one, again, you may be complete, but that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't strive for more. I would argue that we are more at the end of our lives than we were at the beginning.
Spiritually, I feel it's great validation for who you are right now, but wish it gave more motivation for what we could be.
2007-12-12 06:51:25 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix: Princess of Cupcakes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are inspirational and unlock our minds to ourselves, so that we will have the courage to look within ourselves for the truth. The encourage us to stay the way we are instead of changing to meat the expectations of others.
Goddess Bless.
Blessed Be.
2007-12-12 11:16:31 · answer #4 · answered by Zero Cool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These statements come from the heart of "New Thought". I agree with them wholeheartedly. We make our reality based upon our perception and perspectives. If you believe that you are the product of a "fallen" humanity, you will always fall short of your true potential.
2007-12-12 06:49:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. It sounds like the point they are trying to make is that you are ok the way you are. I would agree that at this moment you are perfect but I would hope that at the next moment you are growing and changing.
2007-12-12 06:48:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They're nice in that they advocate accepting yourself where you are right now; but I think there is a point when a person needs to intentionally stretch his/her boundaries and seek personal growth.
2007-12-12 06:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That's very beautiful, and reminds me of a quote that I heard on a Meshell Ndegeocelo album:
"You are, in truth, the truth you seek."
((((((Kallan))))))
2007-12-12 07:17:43 · answer #8 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
oh, thank you, Kallan!!!
I have been having some self-crisis moments, and these quotes were really helpful
they may be true after all
2007-12-12 07:22:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is the key for people thinking, stop the world, i want to get off...
it's a way to stop chasing the world without getting off it.
2007-12-12 07:32:11 · answer #10 · answered by joe the man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋