The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life (36 page)

A growing number of people see that the heart is, in fact, a gateway to a higher dimension and that we are connected and receiving golden opportunities through this new order of heart consciousness.

 PAULO COELHO

Your heart is opening a big window of opportunities.

 MICHAEL BECKWITH

If you tap into your heart, you’ll tap into the emerging paradigm. Your particular experience will be where you’re focusing your attention. This is a very powerful time.

This new vision for humanity is a more natural, authentic way of life. It includes meaningful relationships with friends, family, and a partner. It enables us to tap into our full potential and find satisfaction in life and work as we make a greater contribution to the world around us.

 ISABEL ALLENDE

It is time for a new step in evolution. I am very hopeful, very optimistic, that it is happening.

All over the world, people and organizations are realizing that the quality of our own lives and that of the people around us improves as soon as we start to live from our hearts.

 ECKHART TOLLE

This is not to say that it’s already happening to the majority of humans on the planet, but to more humans than ever before.

 JANE GOODALL

Physical evolution is a gradual process. Cultural evolution is going much quicker. Then we come to moral evolution, where we start thinking about the right way to act and the wrong way to act. And then we move toward spiritual evolution, where we truly can experience what I believe humans are capable of, which is becoming part of this great spiritual power that I feel all around us, part of nature, part of infinity, part of the universe.

 MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

Many of us are seeing this in all kinds of ways in our own personal lives. And the next step is to take those principles that have transformed our own personal lives and use them to transform the world.

This trend can be seen in our personal lives, as well as social, economic, and political contexts. Businesses are increasingly combining their pursuit of financial profits with respect for individuals and society and also—perhaps under pressure from activist organizations—the beauty of our planet. Old strategies to maximize profit have become ineffective.

 MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

It is moving from fear to love. That is the great evolutionary leap, both within ourselves and within our species.

That said, choosing to live from the heart is a personal decision. Only you can choose to act from the heart.

 GARY ZUKAV

Becoming heart-centered is a matter of choice, responsible choice. It’s a choice that only you can make for yourself. No one can make it for you.

But your decision does matter.

 JANE GOODALL

The most important message I have for anyone is that every single day we make a difference. Every single day we impact the world around us and we have a choice as to what kind of difference we want to make. And if we would just spend a little bit of time thinking about the consequences of the choices we make, then I think people would start leading lives that are more meaningful.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make that, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

—MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

By heeding the intelligence of your heart, you are aligning your personality with your soul, and creating Authentic Power.

 DEEPAK CHOPRA

If we want to correct these problems, we have to have a change and shift in our consciousness. And the avenue to that shift is from our head to our heart.

 MICHAEL BECKWITH