{"author":"L.M. Browning","author_id":"L.M.+Browning","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["appreciation","awareness","joy","meaning-of-life","meditation","mindfulness","revelation"],"id":34386,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"From time to time, we all must go unto a landscape—be it inner or outer landscape—where there are no hiding places. Allowing the stark awe and silence to aid us in both communing and confronting the depth of ourselves. We fear emptiness because we know that within those places of nothingness we will come face-to-face with who we are and gaze into the internal mirror. But what is the alternative? Shall we go our entire life without hearing our own voice . . . Without ever having met who we are when isolated from all?","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["denial","emptiness","fear","indentity","loneliness","mirror","search-for-meaning","soul","voice","who-am-i"],"id":56011,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"Beware the God who seeks praise. Beware the guru who presumes to teach that which is unfixed and boundless. Beware the healer who sets a price on aid. Beware the lover who would make you a lesser version of yourself. Beware the doctrines that discourage independent thought. Beware any person of faith who doesn’t understand doubt. Filter all things through yourself. Accept only that which sits right with your soul.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["belief","buddhism","christianity","faith","false-gods","god","lies","religion","shaman","spiritual"],"id":69654,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask ourselves whether the comforts we reach for each day are vices or virtues? Do they feed the best parts of us or do they rob us of them? Even when we are at our most fatigued and are tempted to reach for self-destructive things, we must try to seek out and take solace in those things that will lead to our eventual renewal; rather than those things that will only serve to bring us lower.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["addiction","alcoholism","drug-addiction","growth","mindfulness","self-improvement","spirituality","unplugging","vices"],"id":79889,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"The cure for our modern maladies is dirt under the fingernails and the feel of thick grass between the toes. The cure for our listlessness is to be out within the invigorating wind. The cure for our uselessness is to take back up our stewardship; for it is not that there has been no work to be done, we simply have not been attending to it.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["belief","cure","faith","god","l-m-browning","meaning","religion","ruminations-at-twilight","sickness","spirit"],"id":104131,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"Do not hold a lazy faith. Miracles are not spontaneous events we must wait for helplessly. Miracles are an achievement—a breakthrough accomplished by those who pushed themselves beyond what was thought possible while holding a belief in a better life. Get up off your knees, and roll up your sleeves.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["action","actions-speak-louder-than-words","compassion","faith","helplessness","miracles","prayer","thoughts-and-prayers","work-ethic"],"id":131739,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"The moments of silence are gone. We run from them into the rush of unimportant things, so filled is the quiet with the painful whispers of all that goes unspoken. Busy-ness is our drug of choice, numbing our minds just enough to keep us from dwelling on all that we fear we can’t change. A compilation of coping mechanisms, we have become our fatigue. Unwilling or unable to cut ourselves free of this modern machine we have built, we’re dragged in its wake all too quickly toward our end. The virtue of a society’s culture is reflected in the physical, mental, and emotional health of its people. The time has come to part ways with all that is toxic, and preserve our quality of life.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["burnout","coping-mechanism","digital-culture","fatigue","mindfulness","toxic-relationships"],"id":153336,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"The divine is in the present and you must be present to experience it. When you vacate the present and recede into your mind, allowing worries or work to remove you from the moment, you leave the plain upon which the divine dwells. When you are constantly under the anesthetic of digital distraction, you withdraw; you are no longer conscious, and therefore are in no fit state to commune with the sacred. If you wish to hear the answers you seek, you must be present to hear them. If you wish to partake in the insights there to be known, you must be present to receive them. If you wish to know the divine, you must be present to meet it. …you must be present.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["faith","god","insight","mindfulness","peace","present-moment","revelation","searching-for-truth","soul","wisdom"],"id":154333,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"I burned by bridges so the devil couldn't follow me.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["breaking-up","defiance","devil","freedom","independence","parting-ways","toxic-relationships"],"id":174686,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"},{"text":"We pass hatred and prejudice on to our children, as though they were heirlooms of humanity. We cling to traditions that keep us bound to a way of life that no longer works and arguably never has. Those who can glean the wisdom of the old traditions, but put away the ignorance and prejudices interwoven into them by the generations to come before, have always played a vital role in our global community; though their actions are usually met with resistance. We—all of us—must be assured that change can come without loss of identity. There are certain things we can leave along the roadside without becoming less than we are—certain heirlooms that, when let go, free us to move forward into a healthier future.","author":"L.M. Browning","tags":["anger","children","forgivness","growth","hate","hate-crimes","prejudice","racism","resist"],"id":178773,"author_id":"L.M.+Browning"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}