Sharon Weil Quotes

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We can’t be present to what is now, and what is next, because we are bound by the loss and sorrow that holds us to the past. Grief has to flow. It has to be carried, not just by you, but by the others with you, by your community, until it transforms to the next rightful calling of your heart to action.

~ Sharon Weil

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.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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?

~ Sharon Weil

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.

~ Sharon Weil

Passion is the fire that can burn through fear.

~ Sharon Weil

The resistance, though it comes in many forms, begins with the mistaken belief that I am somehow separate from change, and that I can control it, rather than to align myself with change as it makes itself apparent, and ride it.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

To be able to open the heart again after betrayal, injury, or loss is a precious act. It requires both courage and compassion. It requires a new movement to emerge from the depths of grief. Forgiveness is one of the most certain paths to restoration, and it is also one of the most difficult. However, it is an attempt to return to wholeness, once again, by letting go and freeing myself from the tight clutch and heavy burden of caution, anger, resentment, and the desire for revenge and punishment. In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

Navigating change is the new stability.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

Loss is an inevitable part of change.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

Every journey towards change begins with awareness.

~ Sharon Weil

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.

~ Sharon Weil

Patience is not waiting, it is a quality of waiting.

~ Sharon Weil

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.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

The nature of Nature is change.

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

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

~ Sharon Weil

Healing facilitates lasting change, change facilitates healing.

~ Sharon Weil

Healing is essential for lasting change. ...healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. What was damaged must be soothed, repaired, restored, and given new pathways in which to grow and flourish. In order for change to be thorough, old patterns need to be dissolved, and new, more coherent and refined constructs, formed. In creating coherency in new forms, what has become fragmented or separated, injured or diseased must be made whole again, or perhaps made whole for the first time.

~ Sharon Weil

The more I can accept the fact that change is moving all the time, and that the change I am experiencing right now is just the change of this moment and that this moment will change into the next and the next, the less need I will have to clutch in fear.

~ Sharon Weil

Emotions have their own movement. They move like waves: huge tsunami waves, choppy rapids, or long slow tides. The best way I know to work with emotion, especially strong and difficult emotion is to let it move like a wave, allow it to complete its movement and, eventually, to leave. If the movement gets held back, if it gets trapped and stagnates, or an inner turbulence stirs, the unexpressed emotion and grief can turn into physical illness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, or other displaced emotion.

~ Sharon Weil