Quotes by Brigitte Secard
Copyright © Brigitte Secard 2018 All rights reserved
Well-being is the foundation of sanity.
Something extraordinary happens when you live without an agenda… People remember what trust is. What connection is. And, you are able to unleash the power of beauty.
The human species is capable of far more than suffering, destruction, brutality, war and despair. Come and awaken. Being alive is a sunrise. Beauty is the meaning of life.
Age is ultimately meaningless because we are all the same distance from death.
Every human being is on a journey to learning peace, whether they know it or not.
Indifference is the fatality of the heart and the invisibility of the soul.
The Opposite Of Joy Is Obsession With Image.
The first and last language of the body is peace.
The state of the world is but a reflection of the state of ourselves.
If everyone is for themselves then who is for the people?
The Worst Crimes Are Those We Commit Against Ourselves. All other injustices and maladies spiral out from the suffering of the individual human condition.
The most powerful leaders teach people to follow themselves.
Everyone knows that peace is the most important thing in all of life. Only, most people don't remember this simple truth until they are dying.
Only someone who loves you will ask you to think for yourself.
Violence is the language of the broken and the song of the suffering.
How well two human beings know each other, is premised on how well those two human beings know themselves.
Courage is the way we say thank you for Life.
Freedom without meaning equals hedonism and chaos.
The most important kind of nakedness, is the kind you cannot see.
The greatest measure of a life, is to see the degree that a person inspires meaning and joy around them.
The state of the world is the summary of the individual human condition.
How do you explain suicide to a child? You can’t. Because we are not meant to. One can never adequately explain war, depression, racism, or suicide to a child. Because they will only look at us and ask: WHY. We need to be able to answer our children of why we have normalized these things as inevitable. When they are not.
Wherever we are in the world, the need for peace lives.
A life focused solely on fun is ultimately synthetic and lacking in substance, however a life geared only towards the serious is far too leaden; therefore, it is that singular existence with ample parts of both meaning and joy, which strikes the zenith of aliveness.
You cannot terrorize someone unless they are already afraid.
The greatest of all drugs…. is appearances.
You destroy in others what you have not solved in yourself.
The aim of philosophy, is to go beyond philosophizing… and into The Livable.
(Yeah, this is probably why people are still quoting things from two thousand years ago while we continue to drop bombs and pop pills.)
It can be different.
Think about it:
The world is like one giant bad marriage; no one wants to look at themselves.
Don’t forget to wake up before you die. That is, after all, the whole point.
The flame inside of you is everything. Keep it alive so that you may understand the beauty of what living means. Because without that flame, one is easily lost and broken, cast upon the shores of themselves.
Our whole world is coming apart because people try so hard to keep themselves together.
To be human is to have a social conscience.
The gift of death…. Is the Beauty of Life.
If we live in a time of unbounding innovation and progress, then why does human suffering keep multiplying? Because this is the most important question of our age and it must be asked.
How is it that $50 soul cycle classes and carnage in Syria are happening on the exact same planet, at the exact same time? Are we really that numb?
I am not here to amuse you with fancy fonts. I am here to help you wake up.
Self medication is only a game we are playing with ourselves. And no matter how well you play, you will never win.
Beauty is more than a superficial illusion; it is the ultimate meaning of being alive.
Did you know that you are awemazing? What is deep inside of you, is blinding.
Your ability to see it, defines your time on earth and your impact on everyone.
A life saturated in adoration, passion, purpose, and peace is what every single human being yearns for. It is what remains, underneath everything else.
The liberation of humankind is within the innocence of every life.
Ask Not What The World Can Do For You, But What You Can Do For The World.
Peace is Oxygen.
The Enlightenment Industrial Complex is a profit machine. It creates co-dependency (on it). Meanwhile, Peace Is Free.
Yes, I know, the western world has been swept up in glamorizing Eastern religions for the last 100+ years. But has no one noticed the theme of self-annihilation? Turns out, this is sort of salient.
Just think about how much money someone on your block has spent on plastic surgery.
Then think about the impact those resources would have for someone on Skid Row.
See the connection yet?
Self-absorption is never a victimless crime.
Everyone is impacted by our need for Instant Gratification.
Our greatest, thinkers, leaders teachers artists and religions have yielded the condition of the world as we know it…. Hmmm
your self is your most valuable possession
and because it is invisible
we often see it most clearly see it by its absence
= self-destructive living
Committing to illusion, instead of the truth, is one of the greatest forms of unspoken self-destruction on planet earth.
Beauty is not about your appearance, even though that superficial notion is a noxious and pervasive illusion society accepts. Beauty is something far deeper; it is an experience of yourself and of all life as something wondrous, spine tingling, slow motion and fast forward, love drenched, ending/beginning/unifying, oceans deep tranquility. It is what all drugs wish they could be.
Our society worships at the altar of the tangible: money, productivity, status, appearance. Control is our greatest addiction. And this is why our world is so afraid, anxious, and full of suffering. Actual value can only be found in the intangible: meaning, love, wonder, beauty, truth, honesty, the soul, and peace.
What you cannot touch, is the most real of all things.
How much time do we spend fighting What Is? That is the supreme definition of flushing your life away. The war within is greatest of all catastrophes. Because you are the collateral damage.
Once you have seen the truth, you can never, for the rest of your life, unsee it.
A civilization is only as evolved as its paradigms.
Light the world on fire with beauty.