The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
The God I know would say to the person striving to earn or be worthy of his love: “You have it backwards. You are trying to change so that you can win my love. It just doesn’t and cannot work that way. I have given you my love so that you can change.
Emotions are only indicators. Habitual patterns of negative emotions are always a signal of some underlying misconception.
I must act against my phobias. Only in doing it will I learn that I CAN do it and thereby dispatch another delusion. Every day we should all do something that will extend us; we should win little victories over our fears that will widen the world and our lives.
True health resides principally in one’s vision, in one’s deepest attitudes; it is not merely the absence of symptoms. Likewise, true freedom has its roots in one’s basic vision of reality; it is not merely the absence of coercion from external forces.
Wherever you are in your development, whatever you are doing, with a strong affirmation of all your goodness and good deeds, with a gentle understanding of your weakness, God is forever loving you. You do not have to change, grow, or be good in order to be loved. Rather you are loved so that you can change, grow, and be good.
All change in the quality of a person’s life must grow out of a change in his vision of reality.
What we have to do is work with our vision. We must become more and more aware of its contents, discover its distortions, and replace faulty perceptions with those which are true. The truth alone can make us free.