The Way of Mastery ~ Part One Quotes

“Be you therefore, a wise gardener. Cultivate a deep love and respect for yourself, for you are not here to “fix” the world. You are not here to “fix” your brother or sister. It is only love that heals. And until you have loved yourself wholly by having purified the mind of every erroneous thought you have ever held—until you have loved yourself—you do not, in truth, love anyone or anything. Save in those brief moments when you let your guard down and the Love of God shines forth through you so quickly you do not even know what happened! The wise gardener cultivates a state of consciousness in which the Love of God is unimpeded.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“You must find your own way to your own truth. For before each and every one of you lies your pathway, a doorway, an eye of the needle, through which only you can fit. Therefore, in some respects, you are seemingly alone. You must make the decision to desire—above all things—awakening into perfect remembrance of your union with God. Just as a wave might finally decide that it has been birthed not to be fearful of being a wave, but to truly claim its individuation, its uniqueness and to live that fully. And in that fullness, it decides to discover a way to be aware of its infinite union with the ocean itself. It decides to somehow break free of the myopic self-identification as one little piece of wave that arises in a place or a field of time that lasts for but a second, and then disappears. Just like the wave, you can decide to find a way to transcend limitation, to become re-identified with a consciousness, a living awareness that you are one with the depth of the sea. Decide that you can operate not from the superficial level of awareness that might be like the foam at the tip of the wave—which you call your conscious or egoic mind—but that you can become informed in all that you speak, in all that you do, in all that you create, and all that you perceive by that which rests in the very infinite depth of the ocean itself.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“The Way of the Heart is not the way of the intellect. For indeed that aspect of the mind was never designed to be your master. It was designed to be the humble, and—if you will pardon the expression—very stupid servant of the awakened heart. The heart is that which feels all things, embraces all things, trusts all things, and allows all things. The heart is that in which the soul rests eternally. The heart is that which is beyond space and time and is that spark of light in the Mind of God, which is called Christ. Only in that will you find the peace that you seek. You will discover that the pathway of awakening is not a pathway of avoidance, but a pathway of truthfulness. It is not a pathway of accomplishment and pride, but a pathway of releasing from the consciousness every hope and every wish to be special—to see yourself as having made progress—so that you can pound a fist upon the chest and spread the tail feathers. It is a transcendence of the hope of somehow getting God’s attention, so that He will look upon you and say, “Oh, you have been such a good person. Yes, we will allow you into the Kingdom now.” It is a way in which you will come to cultivate—regardless of your inner experience or degree of awakening—the willingness and the art of returning to the simplicity of empty-headedness and not-knowingness with each and every breath. It is a way of life in which all things and all events become an aspect of your meditation and your prayer until there is established once again within you the Truth that is true always: Not my will, but thine be done. For of myself, I do nothing. But the Father does all things through me.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“For the wisest are always the humblest.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“For to forgive means to choose to release another from the perceptions you have been projecting upon them. It is, therefore, an act of forgiving one’s self of one’s projections. As you begin to forgive—even seventy-times-seven times—each time you forgive, you take yourself deeper into the purity of your own consciousness. You begin to see how profoundly you have been coloring and, therefore, affecting all of your relationships, through the simple act of not being aware of the power of projection.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“I would ask that you close your eyes for just a moment. Take a deep breath into the body and let it go. As the breath leaves the body, hold the thought that there is nothing worth holding onto any longer that keeps your peace and happiness at arm’s length. Become committed—fully committed—to the experience of happiness, even as you have been fully committed to unhappiness, limitation and lack. Give your Creator full permission to sweep the basement clean. There really is not anything down there worth defending or protecting.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“The Way of the Heart does not know the word avoidance. It does not know deception, manipulation or control. It does not know blame, although it watches these things arise as echoes of old patterns now outgrown.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“For indeed in that hour, there is a transcendence of all that knows limitation. There is a transcendence of all that knows coming and going, birth and death. There is but the Mind of Christ within which each of us—as a spark of divine light, as a sunbeam to the sun—rests eternally in perfect communion and communication always. The great secret is this is the state of your reality. In each and every moment, you abide in perfect communion with the whole of creation since all things are but temporary modifications of the one fundamental energy that I have chosen to call the Christ Mind, the offspring of the Father.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“Te he dicho muchas veces que el mundo que ves es nada más que el efecto de los pensamientos que has sostenido dentro de la mente.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, El Camino de La Maestría ~ Parte Uno: El Camino del Corazón (El Camino de La Maestría (Way of Mastery) [Edición Kindle] nº 1)

“Communication is creation. These two are one and the same. Therefore, if you would create well, ask only: What am I committed to communicating? What will my creations express? What will my creations convey to others? For what I seek to convey reveals what I believe
is the truth of my Self to the world.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“The world of conflict, fear, guilt and unworthiness and the world of the Kingdom lie side by side within your own mind. The”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“echoes of old patterns now outgrown. It”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“walk through this world seemingly appearing like everyone else and yet, you are spacious within. You are empty within. In truth, you desire nothing, though you allow desire to move through you. And you recognize it as the voice of the Father guiding your personality, your emotions and even the body to the places, events, people and experiences through which the tapestry of the atonement—the at-one-ment—is being woven, through which all of the children of God are called home again.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“For when you do not turn to allow the embrace of desire, there is only one alternative. It is to live in mere survival. When you choose the energy of mere survival, the world is your master, before which you will be made to bow again and again and again and again and again, lifetime after lifetime after lifetime! You will be a slave to the insanity that seems to rule this world.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“Who am I? I am the extension of Love in form. I have never been born and I will never taste death. I am infinite and eternal. I shine forth as a sunbeam to the sun. I am the effect of God’s Love. And I stand before you to love you.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“The goal, then, of genuine spirituality is to realign the quality of your perception—to mirror, to resonate with, to be in perfect alignment with the perception of your Creator—to see with God’s eyes.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“The waves delight in expressing what seems to be a unique individuality. Yet, they carry the common thread of being made of the same substance and are truly governed by the same laws of creation. They know not the moment of their own arising, for only the depth of the ocean unseen can know the moment when it chooses to well up and to create the expression of the wave.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“And in that very instant, that soul decided to follow a path that would lead to sovereign mastery, and never again be a pawn of any government, or any group, or any faction or anyone. He dropped the mallet from his hand—this was a Roman soldier—stood up, walked away and disappeared.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“Rest assured, you will continue to project upon others what remains unhealed and unforgiven within yourself. Each time you react to another, you are being given a sign that there is some kind of energy that has been presented to your awareness that you have not forgiven within yourself. If someone is critical and you react every time they are critical, rest assured, you have not healed that part of your own being—that part of your own experience of being critical of others.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“REACTIVITY INDICATES THE NEED FOR SELF-FORGIVENESS”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“Judgment causes the very cellular structure to break down. If you could see this, you would never judge again. When you judge, even the cells of your body go crazy. They vibrate in a completely dissonant way. There is contraction. The fluids do not move through the cells. The nutrients do not become transported or delivered to the cells. The waste matter is not processed properly. Everything gets clogged up, and there is dis-ease.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“Beloved friends, your life—your life—is your way home! If you do not live it fully, how can you ever arrive home? Therefore, fear not your greatness. Fear not the power that comes from embracing your life and claiming its value. Live it full out with every bit of passion you can muster! Embrace every second of it! Every time you wash your dish and your cup after breakfast, look upon these things and say: My God! This is my life! This is my pathway home! And I am going to live it!”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“If you become wholly committed to awakening from the dream you have dreamt since the stars first began to appear in the heavens and if your one desire is to be only what God created, then lay at the altar of your heart with every breath, everything you think you know, everything you think you need, and look lovingly upon every place that fear has made a home in your mind, and allow correction to come. It will come.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“As you go through your day, observe when you feel as though you are in contraction. Are the muscles of the body tight? Is the breath very shallow? Does your voice become faster or louder when you speak about some energy in someone else? That is a sign that you need to do healing within yourself. When you recognize that these kinds of signs are going on—in other words, life has presented you with an opportunity to be disturbed—that is a sign that there is something that requires healing. Therefore, count it a blessing if you feel disturbed.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“You know the experience of looking back in your life, and suddenly seeing a scene in which now you know you behaved selfishly from ego, and that you were manipulative or cunning or hurtful? Or you recognize, “My God, I was really in judgment of that person. Oh, if only I could go back and undo it.” Know you that feeling? I say unto you, you can, because everything is present. There is no such thing as past and future, there is only now. So when you have that thought or that memory, it is coming to you for a very specific reason. As a soul, you are learning about forgiveness and how to undo the effects of your previous choices. And so it is being presented to you, yet again, that you might make a new choice. When that old memory comes, stay with it. Look at it. Recognize how judgment worked at that time. And then say to that person or that event: I judge you not. I extend forgiveness to myself for what I have created. I embrace you, and I love you. I free you to be yourself. I bless you with the blessing of Christ.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“You are literally creating everything you choose and nothing is forced upon you.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“What is projection? Projection occurs when there has first been denial within yourself. Projection is an act in which you psychically try to throw out of your ownership everything that you have judged as being despicable or unworthy of you—something you do not want. So you will project it. You will throw it up and out and let it land on whomever happens to be nearby. Projection is the effect of the denial of the first axiom that I have given you. It is the denial of the truth that: Nothing you experience has been caused by anything outside of you. Projection is the attempt to insist that reality is other than the way God made it. That you are not powerful, that you are a victim of circumstances, that you are in a world that can actually do things to you and cause you to make decisions that you would not have made otherwise. That is always denial. And it is a lie.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“Fear is nothing more than the illusion you have chosen to value in order to experience what it is like to feel separate from Love.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“For example, lack is not caused by taxation. Taxation is caused by the decision to need to believe that there is a power outside of yourself that needs all of your energy. Government does not cause you to be subservient. Your sense of being subservient, guilt-ridden, weak, and limited is what births the idea of government. Then some of you as loving brothers and sisters say, “Well, I’ll play that part.” They become your politicians that create the disgruntled feelings that you have. The world is uncaused by anything, save the choices you have made as a free consciousness. You have concocted the thought and then immersed yourself in that which reflects back to you what you have already decided to believe. This means that The Way of Transformation is that way in which one becomes empowered, in every moment, to become fully responsible for clearly deciding what they will see and that they will not settle for anything less. The better you get at this, the quicker it happens. Until one reaches the point where miracles occur.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart

“Ultimately, when a gardener seeks to improve the quality of the soil from which he would want his flowers to bloom forth, the gardener seeks not to look upon the effects of a weed, or that which is above the surface. But rather, he makes haste and goes for the root. When the root has been pulled up, the effects of that weed can no more be seen. Therefore, in truth, we come not to improve what you would be thinking of as the surface of the garden, the surface of the soil, but to strike at the root that resides deep within the mind, in the depth that I have called the heart or the soul. All that we endeavor to do, then, is designed to uproot the weed of fear that has made a home in the depth of your being.”
― Shanti Christo Foundation, The Way of Mastery ~ Part One: The Way of the Heart