Top 25 Quotes by John Welwood of 36 - Page 2

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.

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

Heart, Perfect, Sun

John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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

John Welwood

Giving, Scary, Secret

John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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

John Welwood

Wake Up, Waking, Form

Love is the recognition of beauty.

John Welwood

Love, Love Is, Recognition

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

Love, Unique, Light

John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

John Welwood

Mean, Becoming, Fullness

John Welwood (1991). “JOURNEY HEART PB”, Harper Perennial

Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or soulless way. That is why, if we are to live our realizations and bring them into this world, we also need to work on the vessel of spirit - our embodied humanity. Soulwork is the forging of this vessel... If spiritual work brings freedom, soulwork brings integration. Both are necessary for a complete human life.

John Welwood

Spiritual, Soul, Humanity

The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.

John Welwood

Love, Light, Soul

John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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

Spiritual, Spring, Real

Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

John Welwood

Teacher, Self, Discipline