C.L. Bryant Quotes

Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.

You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.

Zen movement is a meditative practice.

Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware.

Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations.

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.

Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!

When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.

Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.

Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.

If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.

Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.

Success comes from finding your center and self.

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!

Meditation is the glue that holds our mind, body, and spirit together

When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.

We co-create when we reach out and touch souls. Like rays of light—where they converge—twice as bright.

Love is the light that brightens every heart's darkness.

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.

There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!

Trust others and you will be more trusted.

You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it's trying to protect you.

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people, " to the exclusion of other human beings.

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.

We cannot trust our own minds, traditions and beliefs.

In a relationship, when trust is lost, everything is lost.

No construct on earth will stand, that does not stand for the least among them, as their advocate and humble servant.

Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.

A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.

To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life.

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers.

Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business.

Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.

When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.

Forgiveness can help you to be sane.

Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.