The pain you are going through is not what will determine your future; your future will be determined by who you are as you go through your pain.
The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.
The truth is that we have done far too little, for we have never apologized. We have never fully, publicly acknowledged the evil that was done to African-Americans as evil. The Civil War obliterated a wicked institution, but a war alone cannot obliterate wicked thinking. Slavery ended but racism continued, and in many ways it intensified after that war. Slavery existed only in the South, but racism pervades the entire country.
THE UNIVERSE IS set up to work on your behalf.
God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.
Without personal commitment to the attributes of fair play and integrity, the United States is in grave danger. Malice and intolerance stalk our society, staking claim to our minds, and not one corner of our social order is unaffected. This darkness is a significant threat to our national good, perhaps the most significant threat in our history, for it strikes at the heart of democracy. Where people are not free to disagree, there can be no democracy, since that is what democracy is.
Your calling is what you would do whether you were paid to do it or not. Your calling is what you have to do in order to be happy. Your.
Think something isn’t good enough, and it never will be. Think something is wonderful, and it will only get better.
I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all.
And the more open your heart, the more miracles you’ll receive. For miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.
The cultivation of mental rest, or surrender, is like eating healthy food. It doesn’t give us an immediate rush, but over time it provides a lot more energy.
There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.
Today I will not be tempted to wander the byroads of pain, but rather I will set my feet upon the path of joy and peace. May the spirit of God protect my mind from any forces of fear that would divert my thinking.
You’re afraid of feelings the way you’re afraid of food: you’re afraid that once you start, you may never stop. But the truth is, feelings are only out of control when they’re not handed over for divine resolution. Given to Divine Mind, they’re lifted to divine right order – where they will be appropriately felt and then appropriately dissolved. So too shall it be with food appetites, for they are mere reflections of your turmoil or peace.
Dear Lord, We pray for the leaders of this country and every other. May they not be swayed by false politics but listen instead to the spirit of truth. May they not harken to the false and bitter voices of a frightened world, but instead hear the angels who minister unto them. May the world make room for their leadership and resist no more their growth into greatness.
Any person, economic system, or political establishment that fails to concern itself with the pain of others is out of alignment with spiritual truth.
When two people come together in God, the walls that appear to separate us disappear. The beloved doesn’t seem to be a mere mortal. They seem for a while to be something else, something more. The truth is, they are something more. No one is anything less than the perfect Son of God, and when we fall in love, we have an instant when we see the total truth about someone. They are perfect. That’s not just our imagination.
The future is programmed in the present. To let the past go is to remember that in the present, my brother is innocent.
Our political challenges are mere symptoms of a deeper malaise and a deeper dysfunction. Humanity itself is being challenged to move on to the next stage of our evolution.