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.
All of a sudden, you’re not too proud to ask for help. That’s what it means to surrender to God.
As I began to study A Course in Miracles, I discovered the following things: God is the love within us.
Partners are meant to have a priestly role in each other’s lives. They are meant to help each other access the highest parts within themselves.
Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.
Political manifestations, both good and bad, are but outer reflections of internal realities.
His correction of our perception is called the Atonement.
In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His.
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don’t yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It’s the Holy Spirit’s job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point.
We’re not at the mountaintop until any zone is comfortable. Love isn’t love until it’s unconditional.
Sometimes it takes the knife that emotionally pierces our heart, to pierce the walls that lie in front of it.
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 evolutionary mutation, manifesting a being that puts love first and thus creates the context in which miracles occur.
We usually know a lover is on the way well before he gets here. As often as we hear stories like “I met my partner when I least expected to meet anyone,” on some level, we know that’s nonsense. A woman in touch with herself can sense the coming of things, and the come of love is like a deer running through a forest on the way to your door. We can feel a love approaching; and when we are in touch with the Goddess, we prepare ourselves in advance.
My ego mind – my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love – would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.
We’re not aligned with the Holy Spirit until people can behave in any way they choose to, and our own inner peace isn’t shaken. There.
Childishness is when we’re so preoccupied with things that ultimately don’t matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.
It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn’t sign my peace petitions.
America’s higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn’t belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us.
A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing – the wings of my newborn self.
Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world’s only real chance to begin again. A radical forgiveness is a complete letting go of the past, in any personal relationship, as well as in any collective drama.