Love facilitates healing. It transforms life. We see this in the true story about a duck hunter who was suddenly changed by witnessing an act of love. One day, he was out duck hunting, which he often...
Once the sacredness of life is revealed, there follows the knowingness of what is meant by the phrase Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
The world can only see us as we see ourselves.
One of the biggest blocks to overcome in getting out of depression and apathy is that of blame. Blame is a whole subject in itself. Looking into it is rewarding. To begin with, there are a lot of payo...
One of the laws of consciousness is: We are only subject to a negative thought or belief if we consciously say that it applies to us. We are free to choose not to buy into a negative belief system. Ho...
One’s fate, obviously, will either be for the better or for the worse, depending on the choices made by the spiritual will.
There is nothing more wonderful than arriving back home again at one’s Source. The illusion is that one struggles with spiritual growth by one’s own effort; in fact, we are pulled into greater awarene...
These principles are in accord with the basic teaching of the Buddha to avoid attachment to worldly phenomena, as well as the basic teaching of Jesus Christ to be in the world but not of it.
Power is something we only have if we give it away. We can’t give away what we don’t have. True power grows: The more we give it away, the more we have it. It is self-reinforcing and self-augmenting....
Question: In therapy, I learned how to express anger, and I think it is a very useful thing. Do I have to give it up? Answer: If you look at anger, you will see that its basis is almost always fear. W...
The way to become that exciting person whom people want to know is very easy. We simply picture the kind of person we want to be and surrender all the negative feelings and blocks that prevent us from...
Real love is unconditional love. Unconditional love is a decision we make within ourselves. The process is one of intention and the decision to be a loving person. If I decide to love you, that is my...
Reason is the mirror of the mind’s vanity; ultimately, there are few things more boring to observe than self-admiration. Rationality, the great liberator that has freed us from the demands of our lowe...
The exact opposite feelings are those of forgiveness and generosity. We just start looking for the feeling of forgiveness within ourselves and stop resisting it. As we keep letting go of our resistanc...
The expression of negative feelings allows just enough of the inner pressure to be let out so that the remainder can then be suppressed.
The level of courage has a lot of energy. That energy takes the form of letting go of residual fear, anger, and desire, so that in the middle of the speaking class, we suddenly experience acceptance....
The mercy of God is infinite and unconditional.
The return from the duality of the ego to the nonduality of the spirit is so difficult and unlikely that only by Divine Grace is it even possible. Thus,
The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting onto them.
The past cannot be rewritten, but it can be recontextualized so as to be a source of constructive learning. Regret over past events or decisions can be ameliorated by realizing that they ‘seemed like...
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