For a number of reasons. Because you do not believe you can have what you choose. Because you do not know what to choose. Because you keep trying to figure out what’s “best” for you. Because you want guarantees ahead of time that all your choices will be “good.” And because you keep changing your mind!
When you spend your time trying to figure out what’s “best” for you, you are doing just that: spending your time. Better to save your time than to spend it wastefully.
Remember this: the soul creates, the mind reacts.
Failure to express (i.e. push out) negative feelings does not make them go away; it keeps them in. Negativity “kept in” harms the body and burdens the soul.
Life is an ongoing process of creation.
A secret of all Masters is to stop changing one’s mind; keep choosing the same thing.
Don’t take no for an answer.
We “call forth” what we think, feel, and say.
Life can be a process of creation or reaction.
The soul creates, the mind reacts.
The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.
Stop trying to figure out what is “best” for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.
Your feelings are your truth. What is best for you is what is true for you.
Thoughts are not feelings; rather, they are ideas of how you “should” feel. When thoughts and feelings get confused, truth becomes clouded, lost.
To get back to your feelings, be out of your mind and get back to your senses.
Once you know your truth, live it.
Negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others.
Previous experience is no indicator of truth, since Pure Truth is created here and now, not reenacted.
To change your response to anything, be in the present (that is, the “pre-sent”) moment-the moment that was sent to you and was what it was before you had a thought about it… In other words, Be Here Now, not in the past or the future.
The past and the future can exist only in thought. The Pre-sent Moment is the Only Reality. Stay there!
Seek and you shall find.
Do whatever it takes to stay connected with God/Goddess/Truth. Don’t stop the practices, the prayers, the rituals, the meditations, the readings, the writings, the “whatever works” for you to stay in touch with All That Is.
His actions were what you would call mistakes-the actions of an unevolved being-and mistakes are not punishable by condemnation, but dealt with by providing the chance for correction, for evolution.
The concept of “Age” as it relates to souls really has to do with levels of awareness, not length of “time.”
No one comes to you by accident.
There is no such thing as coincidence.
Nothing occurs at random.
Life is not a product of chance.
If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.
The best way to change the consciousness of others is by your example.
If your example is not enough, form your own group-you be the source of the consciousness you wish others to experience. They will-when you do.
For there is a little bit of Hitler in all of you-and it is only a matter of degree.
It was the Buddha who said “Life is suffering.” The Buddha was right.
Time is not a movement but a field through which you move-in this case on Spaceship Earth.
And a way will be made known to you, because you have asked.
Yet do not choose sex instead of love, but as a celebration of it. And do not choose power over, but power with. And do not choose fame as an end in itself, but as a means to a larger end. And do not choose success at the expense of others, but as a tool with which to assist others. And do not choose winning at any cost, but winning that costs others nothing, and even brings them gain as well.
Go ahead and choose being better-but not better than others; rather, better than you were before.
Go ahead and choose having more, but only so that you have more to give.
You see beauty where you desire to see it. You see ugliness where you are afraid to see beauty.
I can only experience what I am by experiencing what I am not.
If you love another, you will not do anything that you believe could or would hurt that person. If there is any question or doubt, you will wait until you can get to clarity on the matter.
The sexually active are no less qualified for enlightenment, no less spiritually evolved, than the sexually inactive.
…nothing is “evil” lest thinking make it so.
No action which causes hurt to another leads to rapid evolution.
No action involving another may be taken without the other’s agreement and permission.
Enjoy everything.
Need nothing.
Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship.
Wisdom is knowledge applied.
“Not needing” is a great freedom. It frees you, first, from fear: fear that there is something you won’t have; fear that there is something you have that you will lose; and fear that without a certain thing, you won’t be happy.
Secondly, “not needing” frees you from anger. Anger is fear announced. When you have nothing to fear, you have nothing over which to be angry.
You are not angry when you don’t get what you want, because your wanting it was simply a preference, not a necessity. You therefore have no fear associated with the possibility of not getting it. Hence, no anger.
You are not angry when you see others doing what you don’t want them to do, because you don’t need them to do or not do any particular thing. Hence, no anger.
You are not angry when someone is unkind, because you have no need for them to be kind. You have no anger when someone is unloving, because you have no need for them to love you. You have no anger when someone is cruel, or hurtful, or seeks to damage you, for you have no need for them to behave any other way, and you are clear that you cannot be damaged.
You do not even have anger should someone seek to take your life, because you do not fear death.
When fear is taken from you, all else can be taken from you and you will not be angry.
You know inwardly, intuitively, that everything you’ve created can be created again, or-more importantly-that it doesn’t matter.
When you find Inner Peace, neither the presence nor the absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.
This does not mean that you reject all things of the body. Far from it. You experience being fully in your body and the delights of that, as you never have before.
Yet your involvement with things of the body will be voluntary, not mandatory. You will experience bodily sensations because you choose to, not because your are required to in order to feel happy or to justify sadness.
This one simple change-seeking and finding peace within-could, were it undertaken by everyone, end all wars, eliminate conflict, prevent injustice, and bring the world to everlasting peace.
There is no other formula necessary, or possible. World peace is a personal thing!
What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.
There is perfection in everything. Strive to see the perfection. This is the change of consciousness of which I speak.
Need nothing. Desire everything. Choose what shows up.
Feel your feelings. Cry your cries. Laugh your laughs. Honor your truth. Yet when all the emotion is done, be still and know that I am God.
When in doubt, always err on the side of compassion.
No one does anything evil, given his model of the world.
Put another way, all are doing the best they can at any given moment.
All actions of everyone depend on the data at hand.
Embrace every circumstance, own every fault, share every joy, contemplate every mystery, walk in every man’s shoes, forgive every offense (including your own), heal every heart, honor every person’s truth, adore every person’s God, protect every person’s rights, preserve every person’s dignity, promote every person’s interests, provide every person’s needs, presume every person’s holiness, present every person’s greatest gifts, produce every person’s blessing, and pronounce every person’s future secure in the assured love of God.
Speak humbly of yourself, lest someone mistake your Highest Truth for a boast.
Speak respectfully, that no one be dishonored.
When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person has come to receive from you.
Envy is a natural emotion urging you to strive to be more…It is a motivator. It is pure desire. It gives birth to greatness.
jealousy, on the other hand, is a fear-driven emotion making one willing for the other to have less. It is an emotion often based in bitterness. It proceeds from anger and leads to anger.
Truth and God are found in the same place: in the silence.
When you have found God, and when you have found truth, it is not necessary to talk about it. It is self-evident.
If you are talking a lot about God, it is probably because you are still searching.
Wisdom which comes from within is not nearly so easily discarded as wisdom which comes from another. You tend to hang on a lot longer to that which you’ve created than to that which you’ve been told.
…what you think is what you get.
What you fear is what you will draw to you.
What you resist, persists.
What you look at disappears-giving you a chance to recreate it all over again, if you wish, or banish it forever from your experience.
What you choose, you experience.