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The other key is integration. So often we’ll discover potentially life-changing knowledge, but its only effect is to make us pause momentarily before life rushes back in and distracts us, and we end up relegating the knowledge to the recesses of our minds.
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
Most people are highly influenced by their own belief systems, which literally act like a giant wall around them, allowing nothing in that would disconfirm that belief system.
Being open-minded makes us discerning human beings who are empowered to know the truth without being told what that truth is.
only having some of the picture can also be a dangerous thing. And that’s what tends to occur with devotees of positive thinking and the law of attraction. They have some of the picture, which is that our thoughts directly influence our physical reality. But what’s missing is the spiritual reality of the universe and the true purpose of existence.
any darkness and negativity that you see in yourself is not to be shunned and judged as bad or sinful. When you do that, you are not actually getting rid of it, but simply repressing it into the subconscious mind. It’s still there. You might feel better on the surface by pretending it’s not, but that doesn’t change anything. The idea, then, is not to try to get rid of it because it makes you feel like you’re a bad person, but rather to remember that not only are you not a bad person, but also that you’re not even a person. You are Spirit having an experience called being a person. And you
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You chose to incarnate as an imperfect human. This can be looked at as the more correct interpretation of the religious concept of the fall of man. You were never in a perfect state as a human in the Garden of Eden, falling from grace due to your inherent sinful self. Rather, you were (and still are beyond the illusion of space and time) in a perfect state as Spirit, and
you chose to “fall” not because you were sinful, but rather to purposefully learn the lessons of unconditional love in the more challenging and fruitful environment of ...
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when we make what was previously unconscious conscious, it loses its power over us. Now we are no longer reacting automatically to our inner demons but rather responding consciously, and our response is acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, and love.