Bryant H. McGill Quotes

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

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.

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

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.

I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Prince didn't want to celebrate birthdays but to live life, to elevate and educate to the next level of enlightenment.

We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

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.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.