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If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.
There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.
Heaven-as you call it-is nowhere. Let's just put some space between the w and the h in that word and you'll see that heaven is now...here.
Don't close off the possibility of new truth because you've been comfortable with an old one. Life be-gins at the end of your comfort zone.
All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.
There is only one emotion, one energy, in the universe: the energy, the emotion, that we call Love. When you know this, everything changes.
The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.
Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.
It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.
Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.
Seek to create change in your life not because something is 'wrong' ? but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of 'who you are'.
The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.
You know that the formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it's not; when even if everything's going right, something is wrong.
And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.
As a child I experiences everything in a childish way... I thought I was experiencing a kind of warmth and a kind of embracing love as a God.
You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.
And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.
Love is freedom. The freedom to express the most joyous part of Who You Are. The part that knows that you are One with everything and everyone.
The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.
All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.
For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: "What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul?"
The problems facing humanity today are spiritual problems, and they can only be solved by taking a long, hard look at what it is we all believe.
A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.
When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.
God is the process. The process is what I Am... You cannot not use Me... If you use Me with awareness and with intention, all things will change.
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.
Truth is often uncomfortable. It is only comforting to those who do not wish to ignore it. Then, truth becomes not only comforting, but inspiring.
Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.
I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.
Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul.
The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.
However little of anything you have, you can always find someone who has less. Find that someone, and give to them from the abundance that is yours.
Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life
When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.
Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover, and often even more difficult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.
You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your 'weaknesses' and watch them morph into your greatest strengths.
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.
We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.
You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.
If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.
The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.
Yet I have said over and over again that there is no "right" or "wrong" in the universe. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is.
Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.
You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you don not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
... to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality.
You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.