“Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.”
“God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.”
“That s a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don t know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It s about making a list of all the people you ve harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That s a spiritual lifestyle. It s not a fluffy ethereal concept.”
“Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.”
“Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process.”
“Addressing the concept of man made additions to the faith - “These additions- standards, practices, and allegiances supposedly created for our spiritual benefit- have had the opposite effect.”
“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby s face.”
“One of the first things we learn from our teachers is discernment: the ability to tell truth from fiction, to know when we have lost our center and how to find it again. Discernment is also one of the last things we learn, when we feel our paths diverge and we must separate from our mentors in order to stay true to ourselves.”
“So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said. Are you going to tell me? Yes. Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That s it? Be grateful. That s it? For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you. That s it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. That s it.”
“A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.”
“So we have to develop a very open loving attitude in our relationships with people. With everybody we meet, whether they are nice to us or not, we must have that initial feeling of “May you be well and happy”. Just a good feeling. It doesn’t mean we have to be stupid or that we can’t see that some people are bad or are going to cheat us. To be non-judgemental doesn’t mean that we are not discriminating. It means that we see the situation very clearly, we see clearly the kind of person before us, but we don’t react with anger. We don’t have to allow ourselves to be pushed around, we don’t have to be doormats for others to wipe their feet on. We can be very clear about what this person’s motivation is; we see it, and so can’t be trapped, cheated or abused.”
“The process of turning our life and will over to the care of God in Step Three begins by working the rest of the Steps and it involves more than giving up our defects. It involves giving God our assets, too.”
“Meekness is not what you think—it doesn’t mean being a spineless milquetoast or a coward, but quite the contrary. It is the most misunderstood of the virtues. There is, in fact, nothing weak about being meek. It is the woman of unique strength who, although she is clearly aware of adverse realities around her, is able to direct her emotions to an appropriate response in a difficult situation.”
“Truth is paramount! And this I ve learned, truth is not subject to my prospective, instead, everything is subordinate to Truth.”
“It’s been said that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that may be true. However, if I want to grow and be stretched in the journey, I won’t be looking for the straight line.”
“Were all religions and all scriptures of the world to be lost, and were there nothing left to us except the starry heavens, the story of the zodiac and the significance of the names of the various stars found in the different constellations, we should be able to retrace the history of man, recover the knowledge of our goal and learn the mode of its achievement”
“Spiritualism is not related to the spirit your God, it is related to the spirit of your soul”