Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.
There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.
One of these days, you’re going to fall in love with some guy, and you’re not going to know what to do with yourself.
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.
You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that you know. Use those creative abilities with understanding abandon. Honor yourselves and move through the godliness of your being.
The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.
I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.
You are never bereft of your inner guidance.
And, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. And, if you believe that the world is against you, then so it will be in your experience. And, if you believe that you will begin to deteriorate at age 22, then so you shall.
You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs.
You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.
SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement.
Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.
Each mental act opens up a new dimension of actuality. In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.
When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.
By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.
Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.
You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.