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We keep opening the oven to see if the bread is baking, which only ensures that it never gets a chance to.
God is merely the love within us, so returning to Him is a return to ourselves.
In Zen Buddhism, there’s a concept called “zen mind,” or “beginner’s mind.” They say that the mind should be like an empty rice bowl. If it’s already full, then the universe can’t fill it. If it’s empty, it has room to receive.
Surrender is a process of emptying the mind.
Situations shift gear and lights go on simply because our minds have opened up to receive love. We have gotten out of our own way.
The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
“Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.”
Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
Thus, as A Course in Miracles says, our greatest tool for changing the world is our capacity to ‘change our mind about the world.’
Because thought is the creative level of things, changing our minds is the ultimate personal empowerment. Although it is a human decision to choose love instead of fear, the radical shift that this produces in every dimension of our lives is a gift from God.
Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited.
If we think of ourselves as beings of this world, then the laws of scarcity and death, which rule this world, will rule us. If we think of ourselves as children of God, whose real home lies in a realm of awareness beyond this world, then we will find we are “under no laws but God’s.”
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...
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When our minds, through focus on love, are allowed to be open vessels through which God expresses, our lives become the canvases for the expression of that joy.
We weren’t just randomly thrown onto a sea of rocks. We have a mission—to save the world through the power of love. The world needs healing desperately, like a bird with a broken wing. People know this, and millions have prayed. God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.
when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.
The plan calls for God’s teachers to heal the world through the power of love.
The adage that “many are called but few are chosen” means that ‘everyone is called, but few care to listen.’
We are asked to extend our perception beyond the errors that our physical perceptions reveal to us—what someone did, what someone said—to the holiness within them that only our heart reveals. Actually, then, there is nothing to forgive.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Angry people cannot create a peaceful planet. It amuses me to think how angry I used to get when people wouldn’t sign my peace petitions.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present.
Our capacity for brilliance is equal to our capacity to forget the past and forget the future. That’s why little children are brilliant. They don’t remember the past, and they don’t relate to the future.
All that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received. Everything else is an illusion. The past is merely a thought we have. It is literally all in our minds.
The universe provides us with a clean slate in every moment;
should we live with fully open hearts today, tomorrow will take care of itself.
‘The ego bases its perception of reality on what has happened in the past, carries those perceptions into the present and thus creates a future like the past.’
“Past, present and future are not continuous, unless you force continuity upon them.”
This is what it means to say that Jesus washes us clean of our sins. He completely removes all loveless thoughts. We relinquish any thoughts of judgment, of anyone or anything, that hold us to the past. We relinquish any thoughts of attachment that keep us grasping at the future.
The Christ child within us has no history. It is the symbol of a person who is given the chance to begin again. The only way to heal the wounds of the past, ultimately, is to forgive them and let them go. The miracle worker sees that his purpose in life is to be used in the service of the forgiveness of mankind—to awaken us from our collective sleep.
Every situation we find ourselves in is an opportunity, perfectly planned by the Holy Spirit, to teach love instead of fear.
