Brene Brown Quotes

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

Just be open, life is about a constant journey and I'm very spiritual, but I'm also in touch with what's going on around me and who I am, and you have to know yourself. So for me, that's what keeps me going is just being interactive.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live there, what others say about you, your failures or successes - these don't send you on a roller coaster ride down or up. It's really the only way to peace. There's no other way to be peaceful except in the true self.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Happiness is an inside job.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.