Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

by Brené Brown

no person is ordained to judge our divinity or to write the story of our spiritual worthiness.

What boundaries need to be in place so that you can stay in your integrity and make generous assumptions about this person’s motivation, intentions, or behaviors?

I didn’t leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery.

I think about how often we all try to solve problems by doing more of what’s not working—just doing it harder, grinding it out longer. We’ll do anything to avoid the lowest of the low—self-examination.

stand in the presence of our own mystery, and become more fully responsible for who we are in this journey we call our life.”