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“To find your way, you will need courage. Lots of it. If you don’t have it, fake it until you make it. Soulshapers are artists, but they are also warriors. It is no easy feat to shape the inner world. You need the heart of a lion to overcome the odds. You need to fight for your right to the light.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“Too many of us move through our lives with our true selves buried below layers of repressed emotion. With so much energy channeled toward sustaining the repression, there is little left over for the deeper questions. The consequences of our evasion are profound. Our stockpiles toxify into a cache of weapons that turn inward against the self: quick fix, long suffering. As Rumi said, “Most people guard against the fire, and so end up in it.â€� This is the power of then. If we don’t deal with our stuff, it deals with us.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“Moving forward sometimes demands that we live lost, knowingly surrendering our attachment to who we think we are, voluntarily stumbling around in the dark with little to guide us.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“The universe presents us with endless opportunities to synchronize our path with our truth.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“What seems like weakness to a survivalist is actually a sign of strength to a spiritual warrior who longs to be authentic at all costs.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“There can be tremendous loneliness in the crossover to a soul-centered life. Walking through uncharted territory often means walking alone. This is particularly true in the transition stages before we find a conscious soulpod. It can be like primary school all over again—who will be my first real friends?”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“Unconscious consumerism preys on the uncentered. Once we lose touch with our center, we don’t know who we are anymore, and marketers fill the void by telling us who we ought to be.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“if you really want to live, it’s imperative that you go back down the path and claim it. You’ve got to be there then before you can be here now. The mystery begins with our history.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“embrace and fully ‘excavateâ€� our Shadow, the seeming darkness within. Only by fully honoring all aspects of our journey (every wound, every person, every trauma) can we begin to accept and eventually honor all of who we are.â€� —JOHN POLLARD,”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“Our thoughts are only illusions when they do not reflect who we really are, our emotions only wasteful when we are not seeing them all the way through to the spiritual lessons they contain.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“Our ideas of self are fed to us by corporate game artists who wear us down with their generic mantras of compliance until we identify with a socially acceptable idea of self.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“have to open the gate to our heart. Opening the heart unlocks the heart of the universe, and we see what is always before us.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“word on shame: If there is any one thing that can hold us back, it is our own self-loathing. If we move through our lives ashamed of ourselves, it is very difficult to imagine and believe in our highest possibilities. Unfortunately we often don’t know how much shame we carry. Droplets of shame get behind our eyes and blind us to who we really are.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. —SIOUX PROVERB”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“To make matters worse, the culture is a minefield of distraction. Over-stimulated at every turn, we find that our ideas of the good life often organize around fruitless gratifications and (in)convenient fictions fed to us by corporate dream weavers, preying on the uncentered consumer to further their own ends. Hooked in and worn down, we fall dead asleep on the bed of the marketplace, unknowingly inviting it to creep into our dreamscapes and organize our thinking. There are enemies of the sacred everywhere. Of course, the outer influences are only the tip of the soulberg. We wouldn’t be so easily manipulated by the marketplace if we were at peace with ourselves inside. We worry so much about our future only because we are living in the pain of the past. If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you are pissing on the present.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“You must have chaos within to give birth to a dancing star. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“There is one thing in this world that you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life. It’s as if a king has sent you to some country to do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human beings come to this world to do particular work. That work is the purpose, and each is specific to the person. If you don’t do it, it’s as though a priceless Indian sword were used to slice rotten meat. It’s a golden bowl being used to cook turnips, when one filing from the bowl could buy a hundred suitable pots. It’s a knife of the finest tempering nailed into a wall to hang things on. You say, “But look, I’m using the dagger. It’s not lying idle.â€� Do you hear how ludicrous that sounds? For a penny an iron nail could be bought to serve the purpose. You say, “But I spend my energies on lofty enterprises. I study jurisprudence and philosophy and logic and astronomy and medicine and all the rest.â€� But consider why you do those things. They are all branches of yourself. Remember the deep root of your being, the presence of your lord. Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. If you don’t, you will be like the man who takes a precious dagger and hammers it into his kitchen wall for a peg to hold his dipper gourd. You’ll be wasting valuable keenness and foolishly ignoring your dignity and your purpose. —RUMI”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“On the healing journey, many of us devote a lot of our energy to healing our trauma. Sometimes we are focused on our pain for many years without experiencing any real pleasure. Sometimes this is absolutely necessary. But when we are ready, we have to remember to invite pleasure into our daily experience. Good feelings are a manifestation of our healing, and they are also essential to it. Pleasure nourishes and strengthens us. This is often missed in the therapeutic movement.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“If two people cannot meet on relatively equal footing, there are two options: the relationship can end, or it can be organized around the developmental stage of the least conscious member.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“That’s the thing about wasted money—it forces you to stay in your false-self that much longer just to earn it back.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“With grateful eyes, I saw my parentsâ€� humanness. Like so many of us, their real enemy was survivalism, the true enemy of heightened consciousness. They grew up poor and strained, then married each other and the strain intensified. Although I needed to focus on their hurtful actions to learn my own essential lessons, the truth is that they also did many good things, and every single act of love they performed was extraordinary given the circumstances of their lives. It is one thing for a well-nourished person to be loving, but for those who have lived such difficult lives to focus away from themselves and give love to another is a remarkable feat that resounds throughout time.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“A good friend was always going on about the merits of practical love. For her it was quite simple—make a list of values and personality traits and marry the first person that checks off. Assembly-line love. But the pragmatists don’t realize what fifty years in the same room can feel like, particularly if there is no soul bridge between the two people. What happens if one partner begins to grumble for a more spiritual life? Will they be held back by the practical partnership they committed to seven years earlier? Do they adapt to the lowest common denominator and vibrate at the level of the least growth-full partner? Do they feign commonality at the expense of their clarity? Or do they walk away with three screaming children?”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“It is such a relief when great love comes your way after so many years without it. Such a different universe. This love confirmed that I would rather have five minutes of soul love and a lifetime alone, than partner for fifty years with something less. Commitment in the absence of soul connection is just a business deal.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation