General
God always entices us through love.
As a people, we are afraid of silence. That’s our major barrier to prayer.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light,not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God, your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
The ability to stand back and calmly observe our inner dramas, without rushing to judgment, is foundational for spiritual seeing. It is the primary form of "dying to the self" that Jesus lived personally and the Buddha taught experientially. The growing consensus is that, whatever you call it, such calm, egoless seeing is invariably characteristic of people at the highest levels of doing and loving in all cultures and religions. They are the ones we call sages or wise women or holy men. They see like the mystics see.
The power that is contained in sexual desire is equivalent in the human being of a tremendous oil well. It might seem perplexing to think of desire as fuel, but think of what great lengths we will go to in order to satisfy our desires...Sex is a storehouse of power.
You cannot live without dreams. Dreams foster hope, and hope is oneof the forces by which men and women live. To dream is the easiest thing in the world. There are no limitationsto dreaming. But as we grow we experience pain, failure, criticism, anddisappointment, and we gradually limit our
The Psalm of Forever
Forever is a holy word
I've stolen
from God's vocabulary
that I dare to utter
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped
by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them
like a shadow that never leaves them.
The Buddha
Control or Surrender
It seems in my life, and perhaps in yours, that I am constantly
torn between control and surrender. The most fruitful times in my life
have been times of surrender. The happiest times in my life have been
times of surrender. But we cannot just surrender to everything and
everyone.
The Power of Love
If you really want to find out whether love has such great power,
you can do so by the simple process of learning love and trying it for
yourself. In order to do this, you must re-educate your
subconsciousness. You must form new thought habits of love and
compassion and friendliness and joy, so that your instinctive and