Nanima Quotes

“Birthdays are a day for being grateful that someone exists. We shouldn’t take it for granted. What if they died tomorrow? They could. Anyone could. We should say what we want without fear of it being taken the wrong way.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Not knowing the DNA we carry in our bodies, hearts, and minds. does not negate it. We are an accumulation of many people, even more so when unaware of it. Once aware, we can choose what to carry and what to relegate to history.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Happy people don’t compare themselves with others. If they like something in another person, it inspires them to do something a little different in themselves. They don’t waste energy on jealousy.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“If we want to create something significant in our lives, we need highly focused attention. The focus gathers the energy, enlarges it, and births ideas, experiences, and manifestations. The energy makes the creation. Spiritual seekers have inclusive and well-intentioned desires from which to create. Their creations do not have a downside and are harmful to neither their maker nor anyone else.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“In the country, there are unseen eyes and ears everywhere. They may not be many in number, but they are highly perceptive. That’s what happens when you live in a quiet environment. You notice everything.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Well-functioning cafes make a significant contribution to the mental health of their communities.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“The act of continued physical proximity combined with emotional connection is highly binding. If both connections are present, the bond between two people will be cemented in their consciousness and the very structure of their bodies. They are holding each other’s spirit as well as each other’s body.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“The binding nature of touch is why people should be very careful about who they have sex with. It is an energetic issue, not a moral one. The powerful transfer of energy does not only happen through sexual interaction but can be as deep and binding (if not more) through simple, less invasive physical interactions such as holding hands.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Water is healing. It is one of the main elements of life. We are more than 70% water, so we respond to it readily. It doesn’t just clean our bodies. That’s the least of it. It cleans our etheric body. That’s why almost everyone feels better after a long shower.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Productivity is far more related to undivided attention and openness than it is to time.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“We can develop a small space between ourselves and our bodies and minds. In this way, even if we are suffering something physically or mentally, it will not have such an impact on our inner stability.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Everyone walks everywhere in country towns, especially the children. Although most are unaware of its impact, it automatically connects bodies to the land. All the temperature changes are keenly felt when little divides the body from its surroundings.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“When you live from the land, which ultimately all of us do, soil is everything. Forgetting this is at our peril.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Love breaks everyone’s hearts. If we are lucky, it then remakes them.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“If we are not evolved enough to care about everyone, then we should at least care deeply about certain bits of life. Nothing wonderful can ever grow in us if we do not give our heart to life or to specific bits of life that we deem appropriate and desirable.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Life happens. Death happens. It all depends on how we respond to it.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Sometimes, it is kindest to help senior folk pass on as peacefully and well as possible rather than pushing them to stay. In other situations, the last few years of their lives earn more advancement on the spiritual path than several lifetimes put together.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Bush men are understated in just about every way—their words, their affection, their need for things. They don’t need much of anything. They’re understated except when it comes to hard work and duty. Their resilience and determination to get out into the paddocks every day, to an extent, keeps the cemetery at bay. Being outside, in the elements, adds substantial weight to their life force.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“When you have watched someone from childhood, you know them. You know what they came with, even if you don’t like it. Young children don’t pretend to be something they are not. They don’t even know how to. They only know what they are.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Vulnerability and honesty go together. I have little time for people who don’t have the capacity for either. You never get anywhere with them.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“We can push a part of ourselves onto another person because we don’t feel comfortable with it. People do that all the time. They don’t know what to do with some aspect of themselves, so they put it in another person and then end up fighting with the person. They are fighting with themselves.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Simple honesty about our physical bodies, how they function, and what they need to be balanced and healthy gets rid of so many unnecessary problems.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Ignorance and arrogance can so easily be changed by two small changes of heart and mind—willingness to grow and humility—yet, they are so preciously and ridiculously cherished.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“The healing process is instinctive. It knows precisely which event to return to in order to heal effectively. It knows which situations hold the most karma.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“Existentially significant events hold powerful long-term energy and become sticking points until they are understood and rectified.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“It’s instinctive to want to be buried on the land you come from. It has energetic importance. Aboriginal people got their spiritual bearings by knowing their ancestors were in certain places. It is an energetic navigational system. We would do the same, if we are sufficiently connected to the land and our body. Anyone aware that from soil they come and to soil they will return remains deeply connected to their roots.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“We should take every moment, every day, and every person as new and fresh whenever we are presented with them. That way, we won’t misjudge anyone or anything. We won’t miss opportunities. And nor will we carry the burden of accumulated judgements from the past.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“The karmic dumping ground of our body is the storehouse of many memories. Bodies have their own highly effective way of doing the talking.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“As problematic as falling in love is, it serves a valuable purpose. When someone falls in love with you, they become open in a way they are generally not. That means you can influence them. Yes, it’s a risk. You have to accept the danger of them turning into a psychopath. But there is also the possibility of them learning something valuable that may otherwise take them lifetimes to learn. It’s worth the risk.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“When normal people fall in love, they want a lot of unstated stuff—ridiculous stuff. If they don’t get it, they tend to get angry and do a lot of ridiculous stuff. That’s when endings happen. With true love, endings don’t happen. Situations can certainly end, but love doesn’t end. Otherwise, it isn’t love, is it?”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction