The ego is always looking to find something. The Spirit can see what’s already there.
We are beautiful because God created us that way.
The Founders didn’t mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.
After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.
Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.
Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
It isn’t courageous to go forth when you don’t know the dangers. But it’s very courageous to go forth when you do.
The love in me salutes the love in you.
We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we’re trying to be special rather than real. We’re pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.
The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.
A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.
God’s truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.
Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.
To trust in the force that moves the universe is faith. Faith isn’t blind, it’s visionary.
We’re hallucinating. And that’s what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
God is a peaceful ground of being. He is the energy of nonviolence. To ask Him to help is to ask Him to turn us into profoundly peaceful people.
Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.