Will Brown
Will Brown
Will Brown quotes about
people asks
When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.
self silence quiet
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
minus fundamentalism vulnerability
Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism
letting-go thinking midlife
Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.
busy our-lives
We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.
answers mystery minus
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
children caring parent
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.
practice trying care
One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.
strong life-changing men
hat whole phrase, "daring greatly," is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the critics? And when I read his quote it was life-changing. "It's not the critic who counts; it's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better.
empathy silence three
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
deals products sells
Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.
data soul stories
Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
new-beginnings want accomplish
It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.
riding driving annoying
When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!