Jonathan Bracker > Jonathan's Quotes

“Lying On The Grass

The solid earth has never yet complained.
There is only the slight scrape
Of the accommodating grass
Adjusting around your body its bent blades.

Part the grass with fingertips
To follow the travels of ants
And expeditions of other insects
Through the weeds.

On your forearm
A light green mite
Is blown when you breathe
From its perch, a sunlit hair.”
― Jon Bracker

“Two Stories Up, The Cat Looks Down

When the blind is lifted, positioning itself
On the edge of the desk near the bay window
Several times a day
The cat looks down.

Many people when the sun is out
Come and go, beneath.

Among its sightings are
Young fathers with a son or daughter shouldered
Holding with a consistently light touch the held-out legs
Like wishbones.”
― Jon Bracker

“Remarked

The night was warm
And breathless.
Crickets chirred.

"Close the screen,"
She said,
"You'll let stars in.”
― Jon Bracker

“Put down the flashlight, pick up the mirror.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Second Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery

“It’s new territory, and I’m learning to live in it. To do that, I need to overcome thousands of years of programming that adversity is a constant requirement of existence. We need to savor our success, first for seconds at a time, then for minutes that grow into months.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“it. I think of the Zone of Genius as a continuous spiral. You go higher and higher every day as you expand your capacity for more love, abundance, and success. It’s an upward journey with no upper limit.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Suddenly I realized that it was my job to complete myself through my power of loving me.”
― Gay Hendricks, Conscious Living: How to Create a Life of Your Own Design

“Imagine squeezing a tennis ball in your hand, then releasing your grip and dropping the ball. A lot of people don’t realize that they can dismiss worry-thoughts just like that. One moment the thoughts have a grip on you; then you suddenly realize it’s you who have the grip on them. You release the grip, and the thoughts disappear. They come back again, and you release them again. With practice, they disappear and don’t come back, if you give your mind a more productive thing to do. The”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“How am I getting in my own way?”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“May answers come to me by easeful attraction rather than stressful pursuit, and may all beings benefit from these inquiries.”
― Gay Hendricks, The First Rule of Ten

“The joy of the journey itself is not only a key goal, it is the goal. The outcomes of the journey, whatever they are, will always be in the zone of the unknown. While you’re getting to where you’re going, though, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the greatest show on earth, the moment-by-moment process of consciousness itself.”
― Gay Hendricks, A Year of Living Consciously: 365 Daily Inspirations for Creating a Life of Passion and Purpose

“listen so intently that people bring forth their own wisdom.”
― Gay Hendricks, A Year of Living Consciously: 365 Daily Inspirations for Creating a Life of Passion and Purpose

“Self-criticism and criticizing others are one and the same. In other words, self-blame is part of the same Upper Limit pattern as blaming someone else. Both criticizing yourself and criticizing others are highly addictive and very popular ways of busting up the flow of positive energy.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“The art of getting beyond our Upper Limit Problem has a lot to do with creating space within us to feel and appreciate natural good feelings.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“To get to that level of undefended openness to learning, we have to practice as diligently as a master skier or a master cellist.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Fritz Perls, MD, the psychiatrist and founder of Gestalt therapy. He said, “Fear is excitement without the breath.” Here’s what this intriguing statement means: the very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it. On the other hand, excitement turns into fear quickly if you hold your breath. When scared, most of us have a tendency to try to get rid of the feeling. We think we can get rid of it by denying or ignoring it, and we use holding our breath as a physical tool of denial.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level