in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Solidarity )
We cannot give what we do not have: we cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.
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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.
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If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
As children, we were taught to be 'good' boys and girls, which of course implies we were not that already. We were taught we're good if we clean up our room, or we're good if we make good grades. Very few of us were taught that we're essentially good. Very few of us were given a sense of unconditional approval, a feeling that we're precious because of what we are, not what we do.
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Surrendering 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.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
When we love, we are automatically placing ourselves within an attitudinal and behavioral context that leads to an unfoldment of events at the highest level of good for everyone involved. We don't always know what that unfoldment would look like, but we don't need to. God will do his part if we do ours. Our only job in every situation is to merely let go our our resistance to love.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.
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There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you.
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