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Argue not concerning God,… re-examine all you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul….
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd’s love filling you.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
But listen to me: for one moment, quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. God.
Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you There’s no need to go outside.
What is a highway to one is disaster to the other.
Every spoken word is a covering for the inner self.
Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation, so everyone will understand the passage, We have opened you.
Give up wanting what other people have. That way you’re safe. “Where, where can I be safe?” you ask.
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can’t tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
No origin is like where it leads to. We can’t know where our pain is from. We don’t know all that we’ve done. Perhaps it’s best that we don’t. Nevertheless we suffer for it.
A True Person is more calm and deliberate. He or she doesn’t worry about interruptions.
Let body needs dwindle and soul decisions increase. Diminish what you give your physical self. Your spiritual eye will begin to open.
When you feel some slight repugnance about doing something, listen to it.
Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
How is it with this love, I see your world and not you?
Don’t be contemptuous of old obediences.
When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
Miracles don’t cause faith, but rather the scent of kindredness that unites people.
“May God cause you to change your life in the way you know you should.”
Every part of you has a secret language.
Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birdwings.
Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.
