Bryant McGill's Blog, page 85
February 26, 2014
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away
There is hardly anything more agonizing than holding-on to memories of our painful experiences. We all make mistakes, but one of our biggest mistakes is continually revisiting the past. We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past. When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer. Whether a painful wrong was done to us, or we have guilt for our own wron...
February 22, 2014
Stop holding-on to the wrong people
A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others. This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself. It is very difficult to be a light in someone's life who lives in darkness. Bright souls cause dim eyes to squint. People often turn away from advice because they need something others can never offer them — discovery. As much as we would like to help others avoid pain, sometimes...
February 17, 2014
Learn to love being told you are wrong or being insulted
Learn to love being told you are wrong or being insulted. Every insult is an opportunity. Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally. When we are easily upset it is because we are internally unstable and unrefined spiritually. Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive. If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you. The conflicts we...
February 15, 2014
Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice
In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth. It is through our pain that we emerge. Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself. The timidness some people call "humility" is really just a fear of confronting painful inner-truths, but honest and painful self-dialogue is essential for growth. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and...
February 14, 2014
We are at war with everything because we are at war with ourselves
Between the gridlines of what is charted exists infinite possibility and infinite ignorance. Look between the words, the seconds and your surest facts, and you will see you are looking from behind prison bars. Slip through your assumptions and become free from the tyranny of knowledge. Balance, symmetry and simplicity are ready to heal your painful disproportions; you were meant for completeness.
Great healing occurs when we are better able to love our darkness. We cannot dissect our nature a...
February 9, 2014
All growth involves choosing love over fear
Fear causes you to feel small and powerless. Fear is the most insidious and suffocating emotion. How many great and beautiful people have withered and vanished because of fear — whose gifts the world never knew because of fear's dread? Fear is so paralyzing to life. When we are afraid of failure, judgment, loneliness or rejection we try to play-it safe to avoid fear's pain and uncertainty. When we are afraid, we advance cautiously and try to keep things the same and "safe". However, no matte...
February 5, 2014
The tides of change have great purpose in our lives
There is an ebb and flow to life. People and situations wash upon the shores of our lives. The mighty pressures of the water gently sculpt and shape us. The tides of change have great purpose in our lives. When it is time, the waters recede and sometimes carry things away; even things we love. The tides, while powerful, can move in our lives so gently, if we allow. If you resist the awesome tidal forces of life you are going to hurt yourself. There are some things, people and experiences you...
February 4, 2014
Life's pressure is equal to your resistance
Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned their essential lessons.
Puzzles, circles, cognitive-encryption and social control
People are not very adept at seeing layers beneath layers; they consistently only look at the surface or just beneath. Modern oppression is hidden in a form of cognitive-encryption that is imperceivable in the lower IQ ranges. This is how people are controlled; by clever layering and mind-bending circles. Oppression is very much a puzzle and a riddle created by the most diabolical minds to never be solved by the controlled.
If we are slaves, then wouldn't everything we are taught to know as t...
January 30, 2014
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being
The intuitive spirit-nature we all possess is a beautiful gift, but too often that gift is suppressed. In many ways people have been denatured and have lost the magnificent gift of intuition. The most accomplished people do not solely rely on knowing the technical aspects of their pursuit. While technical knowledge is useful it is only a small part of a true master's brilliance. The master of any craft is first a master of self; cooperating with innate intelligence within. Brilliant people h...
