Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.
Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.
It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.
Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.
With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.
Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.
Choice is the engine of our evolution.
If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.
Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.
Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.
Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw.
Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end of every day. Try not to go to bed angry or distressed or anxious or jealous or envious.
Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.
The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect?
Practice moderation in all things except love.
In a spiritual partnership you learn that wanting what you want is not enough, but that you must both want it deeply and create it every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intentions.
When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.
When you ask for help listen. It’s one thing to ask the question and it’s another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all.