Gary Vollbracht

A Shared Life of Wrestling, Growth, and Discovery

• Pathwork Quote of the Week

  (Quotes from International Pathwork Foundation)

  Quote for 6/6/09

  "The degree of shedding the pretense to oneself, and facing that which was regarded as too shameful to admit, results in the concomitant degree of emotional ease and comfort. He who has reached the point of such self-admission can exactly pinpoint his shame, his pretense, his deception. He has indeed reached a major step in self-realization. Needless to say, he is way ahead, compared to the person who is as yet unaware of his shame and pretense and may therefore believe he has nothing to hide." Pathwork Lecture 117 "Shame: A Legacy of Childhood Experiences Even Favorable Ones"

  Quote for 4/30/09

  "As long as your whole orientation is not geared toward activating the inner center of your real self, you cannot know real safety, peace, and well-being, nor can you make use of the storehouse of potentials within yourself, nor can you experience your freedom to make use of the unlimited funds available in the universe for your benefit. Not being able to do any of this, not being able to be what you can and could be, is an endless pain which you must allow yourself to consciously experience in order to have the incentive to do something about it." Pathwork Lecture 145 "Responding to the Call of Life"

  Quote for 3/20/09

  "The flexibility of relaxing into what is, even if what is at the moment is not what you want, must ultimately bring you what you want -- first of all by giving you a good feeling about yourself and also by being in harmony with the cosmic soul movement within your psyche. Later, also, the thing you want will come, must come, as a matter of course, following the law of cause and effect. This is the climate which is essential in order to establish the inner knowledge that all fulfillment is potentially yours and can actually be yours through your knowing this." Pathwork Lecture 149 "Cosmic Pull Toward Union -- Frustration."

  Quote for 3/1/09

  "When you feel envy or, the other side of the same coin, the need to impress others or be better than they, try to feel the constructive power behind this need. For this need is only a distortion of the inborn urge to realize the best in you. When you do this, you will no longer find yourself blocked and paralyzed.” Pathwork Lecture 148 "Positivity and Negativity: One Energy Current."

  Quote for 2/19/09

  "You know deep within yourself that life cannot possibly be merely what you experience from day to day, it cannot merely be what it is at the moment. And because of that, you strive away from the moment. And because of that, you lose the moment. And because of that, you lose the meaning of life, for every single fragment of a moment contains all of life. The struggle to discover the true self and the acceptance of the now are not mutually exclusive opposites. They are indeed interdependent." Pathwork Lecture 163 "Mind Activity and Mind Receptivity."