Sharon Weil Quotes

When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. Certainly no one is watching after her, to the point where she's now calling herself M. Earth, using her first initial only, like the early women writers who did not want their work to be automatically dismissed because of their gender disadvantage. Though she is grand, M. Earth is feeling, perhaps, overly feminine, and therefore vulnerable. Don't even mention the word Gaia; it's such a projection! She thinks she could benefit from a more macho profile, a little kick-ass to make her point. Perhaps a little masculine detachment would be helpful, or a thicker skin. Because, frankly, she's been trampled, poisoned, stripped bare, robbed blind, and blamed for just about everything that's come down the pike. And like all mothers, everyone just assumes she'll always be there for them with open, loving arms, and a cup of hot cocoa. That it will be her pleasure to feed them, lick their wounds, and clean a load or two of their dirty laundry. She's looking for a little more respect.

Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn’t work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Every journey towards change begins with awareness.

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

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

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