Think something isn’t good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.
The Course teaches that fear is literally a bad dream. It is as though the mind has been split in two; one part stays in touch with love, and the other part veers into fear. Fear manufactures a kind o...
Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities.
Our species is in trouble because we fight too much. We fight ourselves, each other, our planet, and God. Our fear-ridden ways are threatening our survival. A thoroughly loving person is like an evolu...
Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what w...
Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to...
Love not only makes a crisis endurable; it makes it transformable.
Love is to people what water is to plants.
Life might have taught you that emotions are dangerous. Perhaps as a child, you were told things such as, Don’t you cry or I’ll give you something to cry about!—an emotionally tyrannical message that...
It’s nothing more than a mental habit to idealize another time, another condition, another reality. It is simply a way to avoid the reality of our lives right now. And in avoiding the reality of our p...
It’s all right if this part of your journey is not pleasant. Part of your repatterning is learning to be with unpleasantness in a healthy way. The mature and sober person knows that on some days thing...
In the holy relationship, it’s understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person.
If we really desire a moral answer to the Holocaust, we do everything in our power to create a world in which it could never happen again. As
I needn’t prove anything to anyone. I am blessed as a child of God.
I dedicate my work today to the furtherance of all things good. Whether I am paid or not, whether I am working out in the world or planting my own garden, I dedicate whatever I am doing today to the u...
En nuestro sueño, el dolor que no puede olvidar cae gota a gota sobre el corazón humano y en nuestra desesperación, contra nuestra voluntad, viene la sabiduría a través de la tremenda gracia de Dios.
Do what you love.Do what makes your heart sing.And NEVER do it for the money,Go to work to spread joy.
Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relati...
By striving to be the best we can be, we create the internal blueprint by which we do the best we can do. On a soul level, we want to work, we want to create, we want to be productive and serve others...
An ancient memory of this love haunts all of us all the time, and beckons us to return.