Bryant H. McGill Quotes

As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

Letting go of control, that's actually when you're safe.

You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.