Frank Brown

people who experience trauma think they can get back to who they were. And she disagrees. She says it’s more about making peace with the person you have now become.

At one point, Churchill describes his dad as being, “Like God... busy elsewhere.”

I tell them that the Big Book isn’t about getting religion or worshipping anything—it’s simply about recognizing where you really stand in the Universe and answering some very personal questions about how you got here, where you’d like to go and the things that would need to change, to make that possible.

I have realised that it is a moral error to compulsively fixate on the world's troubles, to elevate ‘the crack in everything’ and not acknowledge ‘the light getting in.’ Our pleasures and joys are not a negation of humanity's suffering, a betrayal of those we have lost, or the denial of our various griefs. They are the bright, necessary, God-filled... See more

God’s will” for him is that he live a life filled with compassion, love and service.

In Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton wrote:Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

You don’t need to be right. You don’t have to prove it to them. The new you knows letting go of the need to be right allows you the energy to focus on better and bigger things. Let them think what they want to think. Your peace isn’t up for debate.

the opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.