C.L. Bryant Quotes
Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.
Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.
Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable with your imprisonment you feel free?
A talent is no talent, unless it is used for the benefit of other people.
No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.
Do not believe the road signs. There is no "one way." If it's your truth then it's the right way.
In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love.
If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.
Create and maintain a beautiful environment and surroundings in which to live.
We must have clean air and water, and beautiful natural foods for everyone, everywhere.
When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.
Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being.
Listen to your intuition and the quiet promptings of your heart.
If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid.
Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.
Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws.
There is no way to escape conflict in life, and there is no way to escape peace in life.
Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict.
Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.
Life is an illusion which wisely prevents you from seeing yourself fully.
There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.
Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.
When people are treated like a product, they become obsessed with materialism.
The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it.
Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.
Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation.
Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.
Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace.
There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety.
Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.
Life wants you to know yourself, be yourself and love yourself.
If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.
Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.
Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.
Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy.
Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)
Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.
At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.
Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.
It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.
Praise first the mighty blessing of yourself!
Recognize that you are enough, and that all external gifts are simply extra blessings.
The simple rhythms of nature are calling you. Let them wash away the clutter and distractions from your false life.
It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.
To get, simply release, and then gently invite.