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love is more powerful than hatred; truth sets us free; forgiveness liberates both sides; unconditional love heals; courage empowers; and the essence of Divinity/Reality is peace.
That which weakens life energy is to be avoided: shame, guilt, confusion, fear, hatred, pride, hopelessness, and falsehood. That which uplifts life is to be realized: truth, courage, acceptance, reason, love, beauty, joy, and peace.
“We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become.”
Society constantly expends its efforts to correct effects instead of causes,
some people primarily adopt a feeling mode, others are more auditory,
By taking responsibility for the consequences of their own perceptions, observers can transcend the role of victim to an understanding that “nothing out there has power over you.” It is not life’s events, but how one reacts to them and the attitude that one has about them, which determine whether the events have a positive or negative effect on one’s life, whether they are experienced as opportunity or as stress.
A divorce may be traumatic if it is unwanted, or a release into freedom if it is desired.
Once they start to cry, they will begin to eat again.
In order to “get,” you have to first have the energy to “want.”
Pride remains weak because it can be knocked off its pedestal back into Shame, which is the threat that fires the fear of loss of Pride.
The whole problem of denial is one of Pride.
at lower levels, populations as well as individuals drain energy from society without reciprocating.
love is not something that is given or taken away by another, but is created from within.
Knowledge and education are sought as capital. Understanding and information are the main tools of accomplishment, which is the hallmark of the 400 level.
Reason does not of itself provide a guide to truth. It produces massive amounts of information and documentation,
Love emanates from the heart. It has the capacity to lift others and accomplish great feats because of its purity of motive.
Reason deals only with particulars, whereas Love deals with wholes.
awareness is everywhere equally present.2
In practice, great will is required.
Ours is a society that idealizes the pleasureless (hard work, stoicism, self-sacrifice, restraint) and tends to condemn pleasure in most of its simpler forms, frequently even declaring them to be illegal.
