Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

They say that when a man faces his destiny, the destiny ends and he becomes the man that he really is.

Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

There is a power within you that will free you!

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That's it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they're not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that.

What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow?

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.

Become who you are!

Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

God will help you be all you can be, but he will never let you be successful at becoming someone else.

They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I’m inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.