--- title: "3 Byron Brown Quotes" description: "Byron William Brown II is an American politician who served as the 62nd mayor of Buffalo, New York from 2006 until his resignation in 2024. He was the c..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71f/byron-brown-78972_conscious-awareness_many-people-spend-their-whole-lives-doin_1133909.jpg" --- # Byron Brown **3** quotes in **9** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Byron William Brown II is an American politician who served as the 62nd mayor of Buffalo, New York from 2006 until his resignation in 2024. He was the city's first African-American mayor and the longest-serving mayor. He previously served as a member of the New York State Senate and the Buffalo Comm ## Quotes by Byron Brown > [“Many people spend their whole lives doing their best to follow the coaching, guidance, and warnings of the inner critic. Society supports…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-brown/many-people-spend-their-whole-lives-doing-their-best-to-follow-the/) [Byron Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-brown/) [Conscious awareness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conscious-awareness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71f/byron-brown-78972_conscious-awareness_many-people-spend-their-whole-lives-doin_1133909.jpg) > [“Whenever one person in a relationship is unwilling or unable to contact his or her vulnerability in the interaction, there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-brown/whenever-one-person-in-a-relationship-is-unwilling-or-unable-to/) [Byron Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-brown/) [Inner-critic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inner-critic-91617/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/byron-brown-78972_inner-critic_whenever-one-person-in-a-relationship-is_1737384.jpg) > [ “\[Self\]-distrust manifests blatantly in the judge's reaction to your experiences of expansion. 'Expansion' here refers to situations when you try something new,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/byron-brown/self-distrust-manifests-blatantly-in-the-judge-s-reaction-to-your/) [Byron Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-brown/) [Expansion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/expansion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/694/byron-brown-78972_expansion_self-distrust-manifests-blatantly-in-the_3160718.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/byron-brown/#itemlist", "name": "Byron Brown Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Many people spend their whole lives doing their best to follow the coaching, guidance, and warnings of the inner critic. Society supports this. However, if you choose to pursue inner work--the search for understanding who you are, what your life means, and what reality is--you are by necessity setting yourself directly in conflict with your judge. To explore what you believe, what you experience, why you act and feel the way you do, is to question the authority of the judge. To bring the underpinnings of your psychological reality (how you think and feel) into consciousness means potentially replacing those assumptions and beliefs with direct knowledge. This would mean experiencing that your conscious awareness can begin to take the place of accepted standards and beliefs. 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'Expansion' here refers to situations when you try something new, success at something you're never done before, stop a self-destructive habit, speak up in your own defense, recognize a truth about yourself, take on a new responsibility, and so on. The expansion is a shift in your sense of who you are or who you have taken yourself to be: who you are becomes a little bigger, includes a little more than it did before. What does the judge do with these moments? Most everyone has experienced some sort of contraction after they expand: some letdown, some fear creeping in, some shame about being bigger, some withdrawal from the expansion. In one sense, this is part of a natural cycle of expansion and contraction. 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