Alchemy of the Heart Quotes

“Any behavior we resort to in order to avoid feeling what we are really feeling in any given moment is an addiction.”
― Michael L. Brown, Alchemy of the Heart: Transform Turmoil into Peace Through Emotional Integration

“Whatever we place our attention upon becomes more because we place our attention upon it. If we talk about terror, read about terror, think about terror, watch fear-based programming on the television, then we appreciate terror. This is why all masters of manifestation instruct us to place our attention on the feelings of what we seek, not upon what we do not seek.”
― Michael L. Brown, Alchemy of the Heart: Transform Turmoil into Peace Through Emotional Integration

“Because marijuana is so efficient at cutting off all authentic awareness of our emotional body condition, it allows us to actually believe we are peace-loving people. Because it artificially and temporarily opens our energy system and gives us a sense of movement and expansiveness without having to consciously integrate our emotional blockages, it allows us to feel as if we are having some sort of spiritual experience. However, it is all inauthentic. For those who only experience these states through its use, these states are only available through its use.”
― Michael L. Brown, Alchemy of the Heart: Transform Turmoil into Peace Through Emotional Integration

“Because marijuana is so efficient at cutting off all authentic awareness of our emotional body condition, it allows us to actually believe we are peace-loving people.”
― Michael L. Brown, Alchemy of the Heart: Transform Turmoil into Peace Through Emotional Integration

“Consciously connected breathing is one of the most efficient and accessible means for deliberate re-entry into the physical body.”
― Michael L. Brown, Alchemy of the Heart: Transform Turmoil into Peace Through Emotional Integration

“As long as we continue to perceive our life as purely a physical occurrence, or as a mental construct that has become manifest physically, our attempt to transform the quality of our experience within it remains ineffectual.”
― Michael L. Brown, Alchemy of the Heart: Transform Turmoil into Peace Through Emotional Integration

“The reality of our situation is that if we are an adult living upon the earth as it is now, we have fully entered the experience of addiction.”
― Michael L. Brown, Alchemy of the Heart: Transform Turmoil into Peace Through Emotional Integration