Jean Shinoda Bolen famous quotes

03-23-2025

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Life #Self Esteem #Joy
To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Heart #Judging #Feelings
I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#God #Spiritual #Believe
Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Beauty #Beautiful #Gratitude
The goddess Artemis had a twin brother, Apollo, the many-faceted god of the Sun. He was her male counterpart: his domain was the city, hers the wilderness; his was the sun, hers the moon; his the domesticated flocks, hers the wild, untamed animals; he was the god of music, she was the inspiration for round dances on the mountains.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Brother #Inspiration #Animal
To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Heart #Feelings #Intuition
Syncronistic meetings are like mirrors that reflect something of ourselves. If we want to grow spiritually, all we have to do is take a good look. Synchronicity holds the promise that if we want to change inside, the patterns of our external life will change as well.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Change #Mirrors #Promise
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Thinking #People #Enough
When we enter a forest phase in our lives we enter a period of wandering and a time of potential soul growth. Here it is possible to find what we have cut off from, to "remember" a once vital aspect of ourselves. We may uncover a wellspring of creativity that has been hidden for decades.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Creativity #Cutting #Confusion
To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#God #Mean #Unique
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Dream #Prayer #Mean
You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Mean #Caring #Unique
We need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have 'filled up' in this way, we once again have an abundance of love to send out into the world.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Meditation #Peaceful #Needs
Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our lives have meaning.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Spiritual #Perception #Growth
Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Vision #Done #Able
I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Love #Marriage #Thinking
Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Opportunity #Needs #Faces
There is a potential heroine in every woman.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Heroines
I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Heart #Thinking #Choices
Over the years I have come to believe that life is full of unchosen circumstances, that being human has to do with the evolution of our individual consciousness and with it, responsibilities for choice. Pain and joy both come with life. I believe that how we respond to what happens to us and around us shapes who we become and has to do with the psyche or the soul's growth.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Pain #Believe #Responsibility
While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Giving #Soul #Different
At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Believe #Soul #Praying
As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves more lightly and with a different look in our eyes. To look into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look through the windows of the soul. Anytime we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty is there; anytime we catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!," the soul is present.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Beauty #Beautiful #Appreciation
We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Running #Long #Unhappy
What particular experiences will nourish your soul? No one can prescribe that for you; it is something only you can know and experience. What is satisfying for one person may be just the opposite for someone else. Being out in nature, by the seashore, or on a mountaintop works for me. Communing with nature brings me into soul time. But for others, being out in nature is something to be tolerated, or even an ordeal, or just what you do if you're a member of a family that goes camping.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Nature #Opposites #Soul
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that moves us so that we lose our sense of time; timeless time; moments at which the clocks seems to stop; feeding, renewing, more motherly time. It's the time with which we feel one instead of outside of it, the self, the tao, the love that connects us to others.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Time #Moving #Eye
I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation-for being alive to have this particular moment.
-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

#Gratitude #Appreciation #Moving

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