Our abilities and characteristics are stable, but our environment isn’t.
Posts by Steven G. Brownlow, Ph.D.
What a couple argues about is almost never the real problem in their relationship.
People know less than they think and more than they realize.
Nobody ever complains about feeling too fulfilled.
Accept where you are in life, yet never settle.
Wearing your heart on your sleeve is almost completely unrelated to being genuine.
Finding joy within empathy requires personal integrity most people haven't developed.
Emotional pain results from ignoring signals that something’s not aligned with us.
You already know every skill required to become your True Self.
We always receive what’s in our hearts, not what’s in our verbal pleas.
As you become comfortable with contracted feelings, you’ll notice how often they occur.
When you regain your natural healthy state, you’ll quickly forget your journey there.
Others’ pain that resonates with our own leads to mistaking whose it is.
The need to be validated becomes unhealthy whenever it leads to coercion or control.
Clear emotional pain first and you’ll soon discover nothing’s worth attaching to.
Every challenge provides opportunities to grow in authenticity.
It’s impossible to make real progress while your main concern is impressing others.
It’s okay to make a wish, to have an aim. But we shouldn’t allow it to become something that prevents us from living happily in the here and now. ~Thích Nhất Hạnh
Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. ~Sri Chinmoy
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature. ~Vernon Howard
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~C.G. Jung
The way to a happy beautiful life is to accept whatever comes and do not care about what does not come. ~Papaji
Just as logic leads the mind, desire guides the soul. ~Thomas Moore
Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. ~Robin Sharma
It’s not wrong to want resources. It’s not wrong to have as a goal the positive recognition and respect of other people. But money, fame, power, and social status should never be our primary focus. ~Tom Morris
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. ~Abraham Maslow
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them . ~Alfred Adler
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. ~Tom Landry
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting. ~Harry Stack Sullivan
Whole people fully embody all aspects of themselves, without hiding or denial.