Brian Weiss Quotes

“A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity.”

“All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.”

“As the Christian mystics taught, you are not a human being having a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being having a human experience.”

“As we become aware of our spiritual nature, we recognize our true essence. We are immortal and divine. Renouncing violence, hate, dominance, selfishness, and ownership of people and things becomes even easier with this recognition. Accepting love, compassion, charity, hope, faith, and cooperation becomes the natural thing to do.”

“Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.”

“Denial, the act of not being aware of inner feelings and fears and motivations, is the opposite of mindfulness.”

“Everything will be clear to you in time. But you must have a chance to digest the knowledge that we have given to you already.”

“For example, we may have already mastered the course in compassion and charity, but we may only be beginners when it comes to patience or forgiveness. We may be graduate students in faith and hope, but kindergartners in anger or non-violence.”

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”

“Forgiving does not mean forgetting. It means understanding.”

“If we let them, the children can show us the way out. There is a well-known story of a mother who walks into the room of her newborn son and finds her other son, a four-year-old boy, leaning out of his crib. "You have to tell me what heaven is like and what God is like" the boy implores his little brother - "I'm starting to forget!”

“It is important to remember that karma is related to learning, not punishment. Our parents and everyone with whom we interact are endowed with free will. They can love us and help us, or hate us and hurt us. Your choice is not our karma. Your choice is a manifestation of your free will. They too are learning.”

“It often turns out that events from the distant past continue to influence current relationships. Realizing the root causes of previous lives can serve to fix the present relationship.”

“It's that simple. The kingdom of heaven is within us. Stop looking for gurus. Instead, find yourself. It won't be long before he finds his true home.”

“Learn to see with your heart, not your eyes.”

“Live in the present, not the past or the future. The past is over; learn from it and let it go. The future is not yet here. Plan for it, but do not worry. Worry only wastes your time and energy.”

“Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing. I am not aware of any other factor in medicine — not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery — that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness, and premature death from all causes.”

“Love is not an intellectual process but rather a dynamic energy flowing into and through us at all times, whether we are aware of it or not. We must learn to receive love as well as to give. Only in community, only in relationships, only in service can we truly understand the all-encompassing energy of love.”

“More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when there are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your spiritual progress.”

“Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.”

“One of the most important of life's lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.”

“Sometimes a soul learns to love by becoming what it most despised.”

“There are great truths, beauty and wisdom in all the great religious traditions. It pays to know them all, as a student, because a change of spiritual perspective can accelerate spiritual progress.”

“There are reasons for everything, and no coincidences exist on the path of destiny.”

“To reach back and help, and expect neither reward nor even thanks. To reach back and help, because that is what spiritual beings do.”

“Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Without understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.”

“We are all the same; we all row in the same galley. In our many reincarnations, we have been of all religions, of all races. The soul has no race, no religion.”

“We choose our parents, who are usually souls with whom we have interacted in previous lives.”

“We feel the emotions of the people whom we have helped or hurt, loved and hated, or affected positively or negatively. We feel their emotions very deeply, because this is a powerful learning device, a sort of instant intense feedback about our behavior while we were on earth, in physical bodies. We learn through relationships, and thus it is important that we understand how we have touched others.”

“We have forgotten who we really are. We do not need to learn about love and balance, about peace and compassion, about forgiveness and faith. We have always known these things.”