“When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake.… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Pain does not define us, neither does joy; our deepest definition is independent of our experiences.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The teacher can only provide the lessons, but the student ultimately decides what to learn.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“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… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“You cannot change another person's mind or educate them; this they must do themselves.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“In the moments of your deepest need, despair and desperation, what you need more than any other thing, is calm and faith.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
