Eric

“Consider that the real purpose for lack is making places ready to be filled with love. Our attitude makes the lack seem negative, but lack is really for receiving. Choice is about filling these spaces with love or aspects of our lives that we love. We can fill lack with judgment, being a victim, remorse, or even anger, or we can fill lack with love. When we push against our sense of lack, it creates a focus that attracts more lack. We see that lack has its own perfection in the way we choose. Since we are beggars with our lack, why not beg for love. The challenge of a reflective reality is that we generally expect love to come from someone else. We miss the reality that filling up with love can arise within us and flow from our transcendence.”
― Robert D. Waterman EdD, Transcendental Leadership: We Bring Love

“The darkness transformed the moment you accepted it, and all the power that was blocking you before now becomes the power of ascension, of upliftment. When you feel really negative and you talk about it—not as a victim but as a way of facing the enemy and loving it—you are saying, “Out of God come all things.” All things. That includes the negative things, too. Negative doesn’t mean bad; we make things bad by judging them.”
― John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living

“We have to go into the dark part of ourselves and love that dark part. For loving it is the key to the Kingdom. And we have to stand up and acknowledge that it is part of us.”
― John-Roger, Spiritual Warrior: The Art of Spiritual Living

“This here,” he said playing with it, “is a stone, and will, after a certain time, perhaps turn into soil, and will turn from soil into a plant or animal or human being. In the past, I would have said: This stone is just a stone, it is worthless, it belongs to the world of the Maja; but because it might be able to become also a human being and a spirit in the cycle of transformations, therefore I also grant it importance. Thus, I would perhaps have thought in the past. But today I think: this stone is a stone, it is also animal, it is also god, it is also Buddha, I do not venerate and love it because it could turn into this or that, but rather because it is already and always everything — and it is this very fact, that it is a stone, that it appears to me now and today as a stone, this is why I love it and see worth and purpose in each of its veins and cavities, in the yellow, in the gray, in the hardness, in the sound it makes when I knock at it, in the dryness or wetness of its surface. There are stones which feel like oil or soap, and others like leaves, others like sand, and every one is special and prays the Om in its own way, each one is Brahman, but simultaneously and just as much it is a stone, is oily or juicy, and this is this very fact which I like and regard as wonderful and worthy of worship. — But let me speak no more of this. The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly — yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha