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Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species and, like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly but within us. The fear behind it literally eats us alive, destroying minds, bodies, cultures, nations. External remedies can manage its effects, but only love has the power to undo it.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment—or unlearning—of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
if you take a close look at how our parents treated us, whatever abuse they gave us was often mild compared to the way we abuse ourselves today.
insidious.
a miracle is just a shift in perception.
jugular.
What we can change, however, is how we perceive them.
“Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.”
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Through a mental decision—a conscious recognition of love’s importance and our willingness to experience it—we “call on a higher power.”
God is love, we understand that following God simply means following the dictates of love.
Love is energy.
palliative—
Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking. Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.
The perfect you isn’t something you need to create, because God already created it.
If you dig deep enough into your mind, and deep enough into mine, the picture is the same: at the bottom of it all, what we are is love.
Love is energy, an infinite continuum.
we’re precious because of what we are, not what we do.
It is a false belief about ourselves, a lie about who and what we really are.
The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.
The ego is our mental power turned against ourselves.
praying to God to “save” our lives, means praying for Him to save us from our own negative thoughts.
sin means loveless perception.
The ego uses everything to lead us further into anxiety. The Holy Spirit uses everything to lead us into inner peace.
Faith is believing that the universe is on our side, and that the universe knows what it’s doing.
Faith is a psychological awareness of an unfolding force for good, constantly at work in all dimensions.
Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.
looking to anything other than love to complete us and to be the source of our happiness—is the meaning of idolatry. Money, sex, power, or any other worldly satisfaction
offers just temporary relief for minor existential pain.
Our only job in every situation is to merely let go of our resistance to love.
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Surrender means the decision to stop fighting the world, and to start loving it instead.
our greatest tool for changing the world is our capacity to ‘change our mind about the world.’
Our self-perception determines our behavior. If we think we’re small, limited, inadequate creatures, then we tend to behave that way, and the energy we radiate reflects those thoughts no matter what we do. If we think we’re magnificent creatures with an infinite abundance of love and power to give, then we tend to behave that way. Once again, the energy around us reflects our state of awareness.
Our job as a teacher of God, should we choose to accept it, is to constantly seek a greater capacity for love and forgiveness within ourselves.
“To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.”
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
The only way to heal the wounds of the past, ultimately, is to forgive them and let them go.
Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
What we devote to love, is used for love’s purposes.
