Sharon Weil > Quotes

“Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.”
― 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, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“When the rebel in her touched the rebel in him, and the rebel in him touched the rebel in her, their fears incinerated. When his rebel sperm penetrated her rebel egg, that mysterious shimmer burst forth a blinding light, and a calcium wave signaled the information everywhere it could go. It has turned her into a visionary and turned him into a warrior - on a mission to save M. Earth, in the name of love.”
― Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“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, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“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, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“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, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“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, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“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, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“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, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything..." -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.”
― Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“All it takes is rumor...The danger itself is irrelevant. It's the perception of danger we're selling.”
― Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“THIS is the story of an orgasm. Or it could be said this is the story of an orgasm that never was, and then was, and once it was, it's the story of all the ripples it set in motion. It's the reiteration of the total fecundity slam dance, Big Bang Explosion that created the world.”
― Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“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, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Donny listed 10 Reasons Why She is Nuts
Talking to mushrooms (slime)
Listening to mushrooms (slime)
Seeing mushrooms glow in the dark (ridiculous)
Drinking grass
Eating dirt
Won't talk
Unreasonably rigid and manipulative
Doesn't like sports
Has no TV
Frigid”
― Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“Heartburn is how I recognize myself. It's how I know I feel like me." - Donny”
― Sharon Weil, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“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, Donny and Ursula Save the World

“Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change