Kindle Notes & Highlights
The reason that the mind creates attachments is that the mind is influenced by ego.
Each of these teachers emphasizes that we serve Spirit best when we acknowledge its power and stand out of the way.
" What would it be like to go about your daily activities without self-interest?
All healing is self healing. You may use whatever modalities you like; they may have effect in accordance with your intention. But complete healing is not a matter of manipulating local energies, but of cleansing the spirit of the illusions that the subject and the healer are separate beings and that either is separate from God.
Do not visualize a perfectly functioning limb or organ, but rather a soul in perfect union with the Universe.
In the realm of spirituality you must identify and worship the God within yourself in order to be able to see and revere the same animating spirit in other beings.
The body and mind do not crave happiness, but only distraction.
I understand deeply that inner harmony can only be achieved by adopting the good as my only purpose, and acting only in ways that will do no harm to myself or others.
If you wish to become fully alive in Spiritual consciousness without renouncing material things, you must remain constantly and vibrantly aware of the difference between Mind and its attachments on the one hand, and Spirit and Love on the other.
If it brings peace and joy to your consciousness, then the relationship exists at the soul level. If it brings pain, fear, or disharmony, it is a mere attachment of body or Mind."
To the extent we acknowledge, and seek to incorporate, our Oneness with All That Is, to that extent we cause peace and Love to manifest around us. To the extent we turn our backs on Oneness, we subject ourselves to the random workings of an impersonal and unfeeling power. These are the choices that each of us makes every day, every hour, and every moment that we are alive.
