“Do not seek to control other souls. Seek to know your sacred soul”
“Do you know yourself?.”
“You create wealth by what you give.”
“If you are loved, that is all you need.”
“Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. It is better to allow good spirit.”
“Man always need discomfort for awaken.”
“Man need discomfort for awaken.”
“The great thing about falling apart, is that you get to decide how to put yourself back together. Make good choices.”
“Denial of one s need for others is the most common type of defense against bonding. If people come from a situation, whether growing up or later in life, where good, safe relationships were not available to them, they learn to deny that they even want them. Why want what you can t have? They slowly get rid of their awareness of the need.”
“It seems like such an amazing predicament to me, how one does not become a better person by seeking out in the world those who are lesser than himself and then saying, I will be better than you because you re not as good as me. You don t become better by looking at others and trying to be better than them. You become a better person by looking at yourself in the mirror, and, seeking to overcome and to overthrow all the flaws within yourself, you overcome the weaker you, the lesser you; you become the better You, the stronger You, the higher You. That s how it goes.”
“Remember that you are never alone—you are always with yourself.”
“The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one’s self.”
“And that was it. That was the moment when everything started to shift. What do you want?”
“Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro s white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro s allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro s allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- a bewildering and vexing question.”
“not having a space you can call your own is dangerous. Everyone needs a sanctuary.”
“Ordinary life is fascinating when viewed with extraordinary perspective.”
“How silly of us to think we can hide from God. How insane of us to think our thoughts are private, don’t you know that nothing is hidden? And what is it that you are hiding from anyway, your light, the love that you are? Are you afraid of remembering that you are a Child of God? That you are whole and holy, what a beautiful golden being of Light you are my child. There is nothing you see in this world that is as beautiful and brilliant as you, the most beautiful sunset, or sunrise is nothing in comparison to you. I have one thought and that is for you to remember who you are, where you are and how much you are LOVED. -God”