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“So called ‘late-bloomers’ get a bad rap. Sometimes the people with the greatest potential take the longest to find their path because their sensitivity is a double edged sword – it lives at the heart of their brilliance, but it also makes them more susceptible to life’s pains. It’s a good thing we aren’t being penalized for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn’t know a thing about deadlines.” – Jeff Brown
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“To find your way, you will need courage. Lots of it. If you don’t feel like you have it, fake it until you make it. Soulshapers are artists yes, but they are also warriors. It is no easy feat to shape the inner world. You need the heart of a lion to overcome the odds. You need to fight for your right to the light.” – Jeff Brown
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“The glorification of busy will destroy us. Without space for healing, without time for reflection, without an opportunity to surrender, we risk a complete disconnect from the authentic self. We burn out on the fuels of willfulness, and eventually cannot find our way back to centre. And when we lose contact with our core, we are ripe for the picking by the unconscious media and other market forces. After all, consumerism preys on the uncentered. The farther we are from our intuitive knowing, the more easily manipulated we are. The more likely we are to make decisions and affix to goals that don’t serve our healing and transformation. To combat this, we have to form the conscious intention to prioritize our inner life. To notice our breath, our bodies, our feelings. To step back from the fires of overwhelm and remember ourselves. It may feel counter-intuitive in a culture that is speed-addicted, but the slower we move, the faster we return home.” – Jeff Brown
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“It is important to grant yourself permission to wander as part of your spiritual journey. So often mischaracterized as lostness, there is a kind of immersion in the not knowing that is actually quite necessary if we are going to find our way home. So much information can come up when we are looking in no particular direction. By surrendering to the unknown, we create the space for a deeper knowing to emerge. In the heart of the not knowing, the paths that we are here to walk reveal themselves…” – Jeff Brown
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“We can’t find our path without getting messy… I never found my way to clarity without first befriending confusion, in all its chaotic forms. I never found a path that felt like home, before falling into quick-sand first. I never established a new way of being, without trying the wrong way of being on for size… In the heart of chaos, is the clay that shapes us home. Chaotic Magnificence!” – Jeff Brown
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“It’s not about giving up on the fairy tale relationship. It’s about landing the fairy tale in reality. It’s about giving the fairy feet. It’s about peeling away the prince’s armor and loving the human down below. It’s about wiping off the princess’s make-up and loving her divine humanness. It’s about finding romance in the naked fires of daily life. When our masks and disguises fall away, real love can reveal itself. Actually forget fairy tales – the human tale is much more satisfying. We just have to learn how to get turned on by humanness.” – Jeff Brown
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“If you want to live a more spiritual life, live a more human life. Be more truly, fiercely, heartfully human.” – Jeff Brown
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“There are two forms of courage in this world. One demands that we jump into action with our armour on. The other demands that we strip ourselves bare-naked and surrender. Bravery is a curious thing.” – Jeff Brown
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“Stop looking for answers outside yourself. YOU are the sculptor of your own reality – don’t hand your tools to anyone else.” – Jeff Brown
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“The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten that you are divine.” – Jeff Brown
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“There was no question in my mind. This state of complete and utter love is our collective birthright, the state we are born to inhabit, the way of being that is eagerly awaiting humanity at the end of a long, perilous journey. We either walk toward love as a way of being, or we walk away from it. There are only two directions. This decision shapes our life and our world.” – Jeff Brown
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“If there is any need that is perpetually unmet on this planet, it is the need to feel seen. To feel seen in our humanity, in our vulnerability, in our beautiful imperfection. When we are held safe in that, a key turns inside of our hearts, freeing us from our isolation, transforming our inner world. If there is anything we can offer each other, it is the gift of sight. “I see you”-perhaps the most important words we can utter to another. I see you…” – Jeff Brown
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“I had often wondered how a single human heart could hold great love—it is so tiny, and love so vast. The answer is simple: it doesn’t. It spills over. It becomes the everything.” – Jeff Brown
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“May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover.” – Jeff Brown
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“Our survival adaptations are so tough, but our wounds are so delicate. To heal, we have to lift the armor carefully- it saved our lives, after all. It’s like moving your best friend off to the side of the path. You don’t trample on her, you don’t hit her with a sledgehammer. You honor her presence like a warm blanket that has kept you safe and sound during wintry times. And then, when the moment is right, you get inside and stitch your wounds with the thread of love, slowly and surely, not rushing to completion, nurturing as you weave, tender and true. The healing process has a heart of its own, moving at its own delicate pace. We are such wondrous weavers…” – Jeff Brown
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“I am so tired of how hard we are on ourselves. Not attractive enough, not smart enough, not cool enough, not purpose-full enough, not spiritual enough, not flexible enough, not creative enough, not rich enough, not happy enough, not healthy enough, not sexy enough, not wise enough. It’s like a collective shame fest that begins when we are born and continues until we die. So much magnificent life is lost when it is swept under a mountain of shame. Billions of us walking around convinced we are not ‘something enough.’ We are missing the point. Just staying alive on this planet is a great achievement, demanding that we sift through all of the ‘not-enough’ inner chatter to find a reason to go on. How about if we begin every day with an ‘I am enough’ meditation? Let’s begin right now: I am enough! I am enough. I AM ENOUGH.” – Jeff Brown
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“I bow to those who keep their hearts open when it is most difficult, those who refuse to keep their armor on any longer than they have to, those who recognize the courage at the heart of vulnerability. After all the malevolent warriors end each other, the open-hearted will inherit the earth.” – Jeff Brown
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“When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing.” – SIOUX PROVERB. – Jeff Brown
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“Relationship is always a spiritual practice, even when we imagine it otherwise.” – Jeff Brown.
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“Every path is a journey to God. We just have to remember to open our heart again and again…” – Jeff Brown
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“Love doesn’t fail us, it’s our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love’s cosmic kiln. That’s the great gift, no matter where it leads.” – Jeff Brown
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“If we age honestly, we become love. As the body weakens, love surges through us, longing to be released, longing to be lived. With no time left to not love, we seek authentic embrace everywhere. Our deft avoidance manoeuvres convert into directness. Our armored hearts melt into pools of eternal longing. This is why we should look forward to aging. Finally, after all the masks and disguises fall away, we are left with love alone. God waits for us on the bridge between our hearts.” – Jeff Brown
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“It goes to show you. You can look for relationship but you can’t look for love.” – Jeff
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“However love arrives at your door, it is always a brave path.” – Jeff Brown
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