“When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything…” -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.”
— Sharon Weil
“All it takes is rumor…The danger itself is irrelevant. It’s the perception of danger we’re selling.”
— Sharon Weil
“I’m growing mushrooms… because I can’t kill them. They just keep multiplying…and it’s like…I’m in service to them.”
— Sharon Weil
“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.”
— Sharon Weil
“The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.”
— Sharon Weil
“Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.”
— Sharon Weil
“The stories I tell myself about myself are contexts for what I believe is possible. These stories affect not only my attitudes about myself and others, but affect my behavior in what could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
— Sharon Weil
“Ursula, we have to talk…’ he said, almost blurting. He couldn’t believe he was in the “we have to talk” position. It was so unnerving. ‘I have to ask you… Let’s be each other’s emergency contact numbers.’ This was his first concession towards commitment.”
— Sharon Weil
“Lovers remain in each other’s energy fields for 21 days after intercourse. Renewed with each act. Do the math. Choose wisely… otherwise you’re carrying that stink with you for a long time…Stop having sex right now!…All of you. Until you know you’re not giving yourselves away.” – Sheerah”
— Sharon Weil
“You can fuck me if you want,” she said. “I know a man needs to be able to say thank you – and words don’t always come so easy.”
— 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
“In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.”
— 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Every journey towards change begins with awareness.”
— 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
“In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.”
— Sharon Weil
“The flow of the movement of change will be impeded wherever healing has not occurred.”
— Sharon Weil