We can be kind, generous, just, courteous, and merciful sporadically, but to display those virtues, consistently, calls for an enormous display of courage.
It is emotionally, spiritually impossible to have a sexual connection with a human being and not ignite certain emotional patterns, but they are a continual dead-end street when there is no relationship or true emotional feelings to go with the act. Therefore, there is a level of brutality, frustration, and eventually emotional disease which results in physical illness and breakdown because a significant pattern is being tremendously abused. Remember, you do get what you ask for.
When we judge, we create negative karma. Judgment is a function of the personality.
I still encounter parts of my personality that are angry, frightened, jealous, superior, and inferior, but now I see them as opportunities to create authentic power, to choose anew.
The experience of intuition cannot be explained in terms of the five senses, because it is the voice of the nonphysical world.
The illusion for each soul is created by its intentions.
As you acquire a sense of reverence, you develop a capacity to think more deeply about the value of Life before you commit your energy to action.
Being frightened is a part of the human experience. It lies beneath every impulse to grow spiritually – to find the roots of fear and pull them.
This is a book about authentic empowerment – the alignment of the personality with the soul – what that involves, how it happens, and what it creates.
The challenge to each human is creation.
When a question is asked that cannot be answered within the common frame of reference, it can be classified as nonsensical, or it can be dismissed as a question that is not appropriate, or the person who is asking the question can expand his or her consciousness to encompass a frame of reference from which the question can be answered.
The subjective experience of wonder is a message to the rational mind that the object of wonder is being perceived and understood in ways other than the rational.
Intimacy is trusting that the Universe will provide what you need, when you need it, and in the manner most appropriate for you.
All creative people – which is everyone – require commitment and time and courage to grow into their insights.
Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time. Keep your power just in the day that you are living on the Earth, and not on how to maneuver tomorrow.
You become aware of the damage that you do to your own body when you feel and act without compassion.
Your only choice is whether you wish to have the quest consciously or unconsciously. You can choose through your responses to life’s difficulties to engage the full power of your soul. This is the conscious path to authentic empowerment.
If what you offer to others is not sensitive, if it does not support and nourish, if it does not empower but disempowers them, it will be met with resistance at some level, and that resistance will be the counterpart of your energy that seeks to disempower, or to control.
Rather than a soul in a body, become a body in a soul.
Karma is not a moral dynamic. Morality is a human creation. The Universe does not judge. The law of karma governs the balancing of energy within our system of morality and within those of our neighbors. It serves humanity as an impersonal and Universal teacher of responsibility.
Feel your intentions in your heart. Feel not what your mind tells you, but what your heart tells you. Rather than serve the fake gods of your mind, serve your heart, the real God. You will not find God in your intellect. Divine Intelligence is in the heart.