If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.
Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.
The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
Stop worrying and start living.
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.
Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
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