Top 40 Jeff Brown Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “That’s the thing about great love. It elevates everything around it. You walk through a forest together and it becomes a great temple. You eat a meal together and you sit at God’s banquet table. You merge your bodies and all heaven breaks loose. That’s why we can’t stop singing about love. Every verse is a cry for wholeness.”

— Jeff Brown

2. “So called ‘late-bloomers’ get a bad rap. Sometimes the people with the greatest potential often 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. Good thing we aren’t being penalized for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn’t know a thing about deadlines.”

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3. “You are the sculptor of your own reality. Don’t hand your tools to anyone else.”

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4. “Only a small few can hold the gate open when profound love enters. A blessed and courageous few.”

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5. “You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation.”

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6. “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.”

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7. “May we learn to love ourselves in the absence of the lover.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “Every path is a journey to God. We just have to remember to open our heart again and again...”

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10. “What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, Resonance that enlivens it, Resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins...”

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11. “Stop looking for answers outside yourself. Don’t ask God, BE GOD. You’re the sculptor of your own reality – don’t hand your tools to anyone else. Even the Big G!”

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12. “With one gaze into her eyes, all words fell away. And it didn’t matter at all. In this place of hearticulation, there was no need for words. This love spoke a language all its own, a grammarless lexicon of longing and union. Who needs syllables when you can hear each other’s souls?”

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13. “However love arrives at your door, it is always a brave path.”

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14. “Real love is no easy path: Readiness is everything.”

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15. “The body is a universe in and of itself. Built with innate intelligence and vigilant in its own protection. Constantly finding ways to contain painful feelings and emotions so that we can subsist.”

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16. “Sometimes I feel crazy being this dramatic about a love that only lasted a few months and... ” She interrupted me. “Nothing crazy about it. You don’t measure love like that. You measure it by its effects. It doesn’t matter how long it lasted. It’s how much it grows you that matters.”

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17. “There are few things more confusing than going to war with parents who are diminishing you, particularly when you are very young. If you fight for your dignity, you risk losing the love you need from them to develop. If you don’t fight back, you lose your self-respect.”

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18. “Look, I told you before – you can’t heal your heart with your mind. You can only heal your heart with your heart.”

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19. “Normal. Now, there’s a word. Healthy. A little better, but still stuck in the same conceptual morass. I prefer Authentic. Yes, that’s it. Because it’s subjectively defined. You know when you are being authentic. Authentic as the new normal. Authentic as the new healthy. If we start there, we have a chance of creating a healthy normal. Be real now.”

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20. “Every relationship was a world unto itself.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “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 maneuvers 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.”

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23. “At some point, a wave of repressed emotion broke through my armor, demanding expression and release. As I plumbed the depths of my despair, I shed one layer of pain after another. My inner world was like a series of reservoirs, each holding a different wave of emotional memory behind them. When one reservoir burst, another soon appeared. This phase went on for many months – the first of many essential release phases.”

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24. “I look forward to the day when we can meet one another in our true nakedness, stripped free of unresolved emotions, pain-induced projections, the distortions of duality. For too long we have been on opposite sides of the river, the bridge between our hearts washed away by a flood of pain. But the time has come to construct a new bridge, one that comes into being with each step we take, one that is fortified with benevolent intentions and authentic self-revealing. As we walk toward one.”

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25. “There is beauty outside of beauty and there is hope within hopelessness.”

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26. “To Each Their Path.”

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27. “Society was built on a foundation of fear, not authenticity. I get too numb when I join the world. I lose my openness, my access to the divine.”

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28. “After what felt like an eternity, we started to walk the trails. I looked at my watch. We had only been by the river for 30 minutes. So strange. Time lasts forever when you are actually in the moment.”

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29. “It was one thing to be vulnerable when alone, something else entirely to trust another to hold my heart safe.”

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30. “Everything in me was transforming again. How beautiful, I didn’t even need to be in a relationship for that to happen.”

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31. “Relationship is always a spiritual practice, even when we imagine it otherwise.”

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32. “Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth?”

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33. “It goes to show you. You can look for relationship but you can’t look for love.”

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34. “The more time we spent together, the holier the world became.”

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35. “True champions deal with success and failure, not just success alone.”

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36. “Amazing how we push away what we most want to hold close. Humans.”

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37. “When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. – SIOUX PROVERB.”

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38. “God knows I wasn’t ready to actually do any healing, but I was ready to write about it. Funny how that works. Funny how we come at things conceptually first, before life pushes us to experience them in real time.”

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39. “He paused for a while and then looked me in the eye. “Then you are blessed by her absence. Can’t make someone ready to walk a path they aren’t ready for. Just don’t work.” “Sometimes people push each other along... ” “No, they got to want it. Listen buddy, if one person doesn’t want the relationship, then it’s simply not a fit. No sense trying to figure out why they don’t want it. No.”

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40. “I began to explore more body-centered approaches to emotional healing in the hopes of excavating deeper layers of unresolved material. The exploration began with a massage therapist who adeptly worked through layers of holding in my musculature for two hours per week. Although I was by no means muscle-bound, I was heavily armored, like an impenetrable fortress. As she peeled the armor, older and older memories emerged, muscles with a story that needed to be told.”

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41. “People should think twice before making rude remarks,” said Mrs. Lambchop. “And then not make them at all.”

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42. “It isn’t for the faint of heart, nor is it ever to be taken lightly. Real love is heartcore.”

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43. “The petty details fell away, the essentials emerged.”

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44. “The more open something is, the more difficulty it has with society.”

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45. “Why do we turn against ourselves when we most need to give ourselves comfort?”

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46. “The universe had something to do with it, didn’t it?” “Sure, but you were the originator of this.”

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47. “How do we hold this safe, Lowen?” Sarah wondered aloud. The question struck me. “What do you mean?” I inquired tentatively. “Just being with you is enough. I feel so close to you already. Maybe if we keep it simple, we will avoid the upsets.”

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48. “We have a natural tendency to assume that.”

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