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Posts by Steven G. Brownlow, Ph.D.

Our abilities and characteristics are stable, but our environment isn’t.

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What a couple argues about is almost never the real problem in their relationship.

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People know less than they think and more than they realize.

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Nobody ever complains about feeling too fulfilled.

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Accept where you are in life, yet never settle.

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Wearing your heart on your sleeve is almost completely unrelated to being genuine.

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Finding joy within empathy requires personal integrity most people haven't developed.

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Emotional pain results from ignoring signals that something’s not aligned with us.

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You already know every skill required to become your True Self.

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We always receive what’s in our hearts, not what’s in our verbal pleas.

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As you become comfortable with contracted feelings, you’ll notice how often they occur.

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When you regain your natural healthy state, you’ll quickly forget your journey there.

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Others’ pain that resonates with our own leads to mistaking whose it is.

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The need to be validated becomes unhealthy whenever it leads to coercion or control.

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Clear emotional pain first and you’ll soon discover nothing’s worth attaching to.

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Every challenge provides opportunities to grow in authenticity.

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It’s impossible to make real progress while your main concern is impressing others.

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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

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Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. ~Sri Chinmoy

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Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature. ~Vernon Howard

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One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~C.G. Jung

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The way to a happy beautiful life is to accept whatever comes and do not care about what does not come. ~Papaji

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Just as logic leads the mind, desire guides the soul. ~Thomas Moore

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Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. ~Robin Sharma

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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

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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

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It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them . ~Alfred Adler

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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. ~Tom Landry

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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

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Whole people fully embody all aspects of themselves, without hiding or denial.

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