Kindle Notes & Highlights
The essence of our being is love.”
The Truth does not ‘choose feelings’ but automatically engenders a state of being which can be called bliss. That’s a given.
I’m increasingly less tolerant of a feeling or a state of being other than joy or peace. I’m increasingly losing all fascination with the thoughts that cause upsets. For instance, I don’t find it particularly interesting to be angry anymore. I used to get a perverse sense of false power from anger, and I was good at it. But I don’t find it interesting anymore. I don’t find sadness interesting anymore. I don’t get off on sad stories. They simply don’t touch me.
What moves me now is love.
1. Am I aware of my belief in my guilt? 2. Where does this guilt come from? 3. How and when did I make this up?
Our feelings are chosen by the beliefs we have about ourselves.
but you can’t actually destroy a belief. What you can do is withdraw your attachment to it.
Behaviors are permanently erased only with the removal of their cause.
When we judge other people critically, we are really seeing the parts of our egos that we don’t like.
“Would I accuse myself of that?”
A special relationship is one in which each holds the other responsible for how they feel.
The arrangement stems from a belief in lack, that what I need has to be supplied by my partner.
Yet ultimately, we attract partners who share our beliefs in order to heal them together.
My partner will always push my buttons and trigger my beliefs better than anyone else, so if I pay attention to those triggers, we’ll both discover the beliefs that we need to heal. Relationships are the most powerful healing laboratories available to us all.
Whether you’ve been labeled as bipolar, depressed, suicidal, or anything else, it’s crucial to remember that those labels only point toward symptoms.
Oneness is the Truth of our being.
a moment without even a hint of judgment is an experience of Oneness.
The ego is a belief system based on the idea that something is wrong with you.
Who we are in Truth is not affected at all by our perceived guilt, nor by our ‘guilty’ behavior.
“Do I want to be right — that all the evidence of my stories corroborates that I am indeed a victim — or do I want to be happy knowing that my True Self cannot be a victim?”
To begin healing we must be willing to say: “I must be wrong because I am not happy.”
The ego is only a thought, a thought of separation.
It waits for us to say, “The crap my ego feeds me day in and day out doesn’t work for me anymore. There has to be another way.”
when we apply the transformative power of forgiveness, we forgive ourselves for believing in separation.
Summary 1) Oneness is our True reality. 2) An experience of Oneness is helpful in remembering who we are in Truth. 3) Our worth is intrinsic. 4) We are innocent in Truth. 5) Our unhappiness stems from the belief that we are separate. 6) We can shift our attention from our ego ‘self’ to our ‘Self’ by training our mind and in so doing regain happiness, which is our birthright. 7) Love is all there is.
At the moment the planet is populated by some seven billion people, most of them convinced they are victims. Victims of their parents, their children, their boss, the weather, the economy… you get the idea? We are addicted to the feelings of victimization.
I am never upset at a fact, but at my interpretation of that fact.
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
All aspects of my existence are nothing more than pieces of evidence that support core beliefs.
When I am not at peace I am upset; you can’t be both at once. And that means there is no such thing as a small upset
