Sylvia Browne Quotes

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!