Being a giver rather than a taker, providing for others and asking nothing in return.
Begin changing your view of judgment as a valuable or important activity by being aware of when you’re doing it to yourself.
A few quiet moments in nature can bring about a radical shift in the most disagreeable of circumstances.
Your primary relationship needs to be with yourself, not your family, business, country, culture, or ethnicity.
You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved’s face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute fo...
You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi
You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter wha...
You may also believe that you must have a reason for doing something; otherwise what’s the point of doing it? Balderdash! You can do anything you want just because you want to, and for no other reason...
You do not have to be always as your culture expects you to be. If you are, and feel an inability to be otherwise; you are indeed a follower, one of a flock who allows others to determine his course.L...
You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your children, t...
You are the person responsible for how you feel. You feel what you think, and you can learn to think differently about anything—if you decide to do so.
We are all infinite spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, and
There are two occasions when complaining is least appreciated in the world: (1) Whenever you tell someone else that you are tired. (2) Whenever you tell someone else that you don’t feel well. If you a...
The thought that makes most people the weakest is shame, which produces humiliation. The importance of forgiving yourself cannot be stated strongly enough. If you carry around thoughts of shame about...
The power of an idea whose time has come is really the power of Spirit at work. Equality for all is how God is, for instance, and we seek to be like God. When enough of us, along with one or two at vi...
Søren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Sören Kierkegaard wrote, Once you label me, you negate me. When the individual must live up to the label, the self ceases to exist. The same is true of self-labels. You could be negating yourself by i...
Shape clay into a vessel; it is the space within that makes it useful.
Remind yourself that what other people do is not what bothers you, it’s your reaction to it. Instead of saying They shouldn’t do that, say, I wonder why I bother myself with what they are doing.
Remember that the frequencies of soul consciousness, or spirit, as outlined in chapter one, include the fastest vibrations of surrender, love, relationship to the infinite, quiet emptiness, generosity...