When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.
People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.
Every time we open our hearts, we create the space for a global alternative.
Life as we knew it is passing away, and something new is emerging to take its place: ‘The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.’
Unless we can be like children, we can’t be happy.
A Course in Miracles tells us that although ‘we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.’
There is no peace without forgiveness.
There can be no darkness where I provide the light.
Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden.
Often faith isn’t hoping that good times are coming; it’s trying to see that the good times are here.
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.
We need to change society’s ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.
While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one’s own well-being.
Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it’s the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.
Forgiveness is ‘selective remembering’ – a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn’t want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.