Rowan Williams Quotes

I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.

When I think about any of the missteps in my life that I've made, all of which I'm grateful for, it's because I just so wanted to be truly seen and heard for who I am and was afraid I wasn't or wouldn't be.

I've always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

I think for so long I've hidden. I think actually now I'm in the limelight, I don't want everyone who follows me to think I'm perfect.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.

Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.