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Your impatience tears out every seed you plant.
#129: Winner Versus Loser: Interplay Between the Self and Creative Forces
Get Another QuoteThe more you lack self-respect, the more important the respect of others becomes to you. So you create a mask self. In some subtle way, you become a fake.
#31: Shame
Get Another QuoteWhen you admit your negative intentionality you perform the most fundamental act of love.
#202: Psychic Interaction of Negativity
Get Another QuoteThinking of other people's affairs, criticizing them, and judging them certainly does not help you to become less selfish.
#33: Occupation with Self; Right and Wrong Faith
Get Another QuoteIf you are in harmony with the stream of life, giving yourself up to it, whatever comes your way will smoothly carry you forward.
#77: Self-Confidence, Its True Origin and What Prohibits It
Get Another QuoteThis is what being in peace with oneself, being in harmony with God, really means: not holding back, not pushing forward, but dissolving in the life stream, in full possession of yourself, yet without fear of giving up self-possession.
#123: Liberation and Peace by Overcoming Fear of the Unknown
Get Another QuoteWhat God wants from each and every one of you...is self development; self purification; and self knowledge. It is the tearing off of your masks, the tearing off of all your self delusions concerning your inner and outer motives.
#17: The Call
Get Another QuoteThere is always a way out of every darkness and therefore never a reason to despair. You will know that nothing happens without good cause and that you are always capable of using whatever you experience to heighten your blissful life.
#210: Visualization Process for Growing Into the Unitive State
Get Another QuoteEven when you merely open yourself to a new alternative in principle and feel ready to abandon an old and accustomed mode of operation, there is already a certain leap.
#221: Faith and Doubt in Truth or Distortion
Get Another QuoteIn order to find...firm ground that is without conflict, a leap must be made-a leap into an unknown, new possibility.
#221: Faith and Doubt in Truth or Distortion
Get Another QuoteThe mask self is created in the following way: When you recognize that you may get into conflict with your surroundings by giving in to your lower self, you may still not be ready to pay the price for eliminating the lower self.
#14: The Higher Self, The Lower Self, and the Mask
Get Another QuoteWhat it is now that I do not want to look at? When an individual does this, answers will come forth-absolutely and inevitably-in exact proportion to the sincerity and strength of this wish.
#150: Self-Liking, Condition for Universal State of Bliss
Get Another QuoteHumans need not preoccupy themselves with speculations about the inconceivable and incomprehensible existence of the Creator of all beings. Have the humility to admit the limitations of such understanding and turn your attention to the things human beings can learn, give to and love - namely, other human beings.
#115: Perception, Determination, Love as Aspects of Consciousness
Get Another QuoteWhen man is in harmony with life because he is connected with his own causes and effects, his position toward the forces of life can be compared to a swimmer. The swimmer floats on the water. The water carries him. And yet he moves, he is not passive.
#160: Conciliation of the Inner Split
Get Another QuoteIf you cannot trust yourself, you can never know who is trustworthy.
#256: Inner Space, Focused Emptiness
Get Another QuoteGrowth is stopped when feelings are stopped.
#153: The Self-Regulating Nature of Involuntary Processes
Get Another QuoteSince in reality giving and receiving are one and the same flow and movement, one cannot exist without the other.
#250: Inner Awareness of Grace
Get Another QuoteYou bring light into your soul by bringing truth into your darkness."
#219: Christmas Message
Get Another QuoteYou can gain clarity only if you become aware of your emotions, desires, and motives.
#47: The Wall Within
Get Another QuoteAccepting (your faults) does not mean wanting to stay in a state of imperfection. It means that you first have to learn to accept your state of imperfection.
#31: Shame
Get Another QuoteSince your inner spiritual self is the same as everyone else's spiritual self, the separateness is lifted the moment that you are no longer separate from your spiritual center.
#150: Self-Liking, Condition for Universal State of Bliss
Get Another QuoteEffective fight, healthy aggression, becomes possible only when you no longer hide from yourself, from your own honest insight, when you no longer wish to cover up your destructiveness.
#188: Affecting and Being Affected
Get Another QuoteThis is what being in peace with oneself, being in harmony with God, really means: not holding back, not pushing forward, but dissolving in the life stream, in full possession of yourself, yet without fear of giving up self-possession.
PWL #123: Liberation and Peace by Overcoming Fear of the Unknown
Get Another QuoteYour present life expresses exactly, like a faultless mathematical equation, what your inner state is.
#208: Man's Innate Capacity to Create
Get Another QuoteEach moment offers a richness, a perfection, a fullness, no matter where you are, no matter what is your particular predicament.
#150: Self-Liking, Condition for Universal State of Bliss
Get Another QuoteWhatever it is you find you need from others, verbalize it concisely to yourself. This will bring you nearer to letting go. You will then know that this is precisely where you enslave, weaken, and paralyze yourself.
#157: Infinite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency
Get Another QuoteIf you walk in the direction of finding this real self, of identifying with it through the layers of darkness, you must discover the unending beauty of the universe. With every breath you take, you imbibe its potent love and wisdom.
#208: Man's Innate Capacity to Create
Get Another QuoteThere is nothing that surrounds and permeates you that does not express the magnitude of a divine and benign creation. The more aware you become of it, the more joy and gratefulness must spread in your heart.
#208: Man's Innate Capacity to Create
Get Another QuoteTo the degree you offer generously and trustingly the best you have to give to life, allowing God to take over, to that very same degree will you feel perfectly entitled to spread your arms wide to receive the best life has to offer.
#212: Claiming the Total Capacity for Greatness
Get Another QuoteAbundance of the universe expresses itself in all areas of life.
#210: Visualization Process for Growing Into the Unitive State
Get Another QuoteYou will allow that other people need not love you if they do not choose to. That may make you sad, but it will never make you tense or compulsive or intense. This sadness will be free of self-pity, and it will not be a real hardship for you.
#69: The Folly of Watching for Results While on the Path; Fulfillment or Suppression of the Valid Desire to Be Loved
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#144: The Process and Significance of Growing
Get Another QuoteIf you remain stuck on blame (making the parents and life responsible), you deprive yourself of the vital center of all good within yourself.
#192: Real and False Needs and Their Relationship to Man's State of Consciousness
Get Another QuoteThe realistic and adequate defense against being adversely affected by the evil of others is the total meeting of your own; the daily, renewed determination to do so.
#188: Affecting and Being Affected
Get Another QuoteOnly by thorough self honesty and self facing can relationships be sustained, feeling expand, and contact between human beings blossom in long term relationship.
#180: The Spiritual Significance of Human Relationship
Get Another QuoteThe genuine desire to better oneself accepts the personality as it is now...any discovery where you fall short of your ideals will not throw you into depression, anxiety and guilt.
#83: The Idealized Self-Image
Get Another QuoteTo the degree that; you are committed, what you do will be pleasurable, free from conflict, fruitful and rewarding.
#196: Commitment-Cause and Effect
Get Another QuoteWhatever your situation is, whether you have a partner or whether you are alone, search your heart, and it will furnish you with the answer for your conflict. The answer must come from within yourself...
#44: The Forces of Love, Eros, and Sex
Get Another QuoteAs long as your whole orientation is not geared toward activating the inner center of your real self, you cannot know real safety, peace, and well-being.
#145: Responding to the Call of Life
Get Another QuoteThe acceptance of your hate will make your more loving, the acceptance of your weakness more strong, the acceptance of your pain more blissful.
#190: Importance of Feeling All Your Feelings including Fear: The Dynamic State of Laziness
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#157: Infinite Possibilities of Experience Hindered by Emotional Dependency
Get Another QuoteThe spiritual consciousness cannot manifest when the already existing consciousness is not fully put to use in the conduct of one's life.
# 189: Self-Identification Determined Through States of Consciousness
Get Another Quote...heaven is usually thought to be a place in time and space. This of course is not so. It is a state of consciousness which can be realized any time....
#143: Unity and Duality
Get Another QuoteLove can only grow in the fertile soil of reality. Loving requires relating to what is.
#133: Love, Not a Commandment, But Spontaneous Soul Movement
Get Another QuoteThe effortlessness of growing, the beauty of experiencing, the rich variety of experience without harassment, and the bliss of steadily growing. This happiness cannot be described. All this awaits you.
#128: Limitations Created Through Illusory Alternatives
Get Another QuoteThe more serene you remain in the face of other people’s faults, the more you have accepted yourself as you are.
#33: Occupation with Self - Right and Wrong Faith
Get Another QuoteThe moment you hopelessly despair about the lower side of your nature, you have not accepted yourself as you are. That means you are lacking the humility of courageously facing everything about yourself — and that is pride.
#31: Shame
Get Another QuoteYou may be certain your own degree of happiness is the degree to which you can make another one or several human beings happy.
#9: Prayer and Meditation— The Lord’s Prayer
Get Another QuoteTo the measure you discover the desire for rulership within yourself and learn to give it up voluntarily, you will give up provoking unhappiness and misery.
#58: The Desire for Happiness and the Desire for Unhappiness
Get Another QuoteAs long as you are not completely purified, your love cannot be divine and perfect. Your love will be blurred to the extent you are still lacking purification.
#32: Decision Making
Get Another QuoteEach recognition, each insight, each honest admission, each shedding of a partial mask, each breaking through of a defense, each step of courage and honesty where you take responsibility for your negativity, is a lighting of yet another candle. You bring light into your soul by bringing truth into your darkness.
#219: Christmas Message - Message to the Children
Get Another QuoteThe more self-responsible you are, the more you contribute to the group. The more you can assert your rights and your individual needs, the less you need from and conform to the group, the freer your love and your ability to give to the group will be. Therefore you can receive more from it.
#225: Evolutionary Stages of Individual and Group Consciousness
Get Another QuoteLet your consciousness align itself with the divine will of loving yourself; loving yourself without indulging yourself, without whitewashing your lower self; seeing it straight, and loving your beautiful structure, loving your incarnation, loving all that is around you, even that which seems to infringe in some way on you. Recognize its lesson and begin to love it.
#240: Aspects of the Anatomy of Love: Self-Love, Structure, Freedom
Get Another QuoteYou can indeed create paradise on earth if you do not shy away from the labor of purification work. But soon the work itself becomes the exhilaration and the joy; it ceases to be painful and difficult.
#222: Transformation of the Lower Self
Get Another QuoteYou can find peace only when you can truly accept the ugliest in you and never lose sight of your intrinsic beauty.
#174 : Self-Esteem
Get Another QuoteAs you learn to become aware of your real fear of death in any form, be it physical death, be it any negative occurrence, you free the life force in you, which will then invigorate you as you meet that which you fear.
#82: The Conquest of Duality Symbolized in the Life and Death of Jesus
Get Another QuoteYou constantly overlook the tremendous freedom you possess in the choice you have about how to think, interpret, and react in any given situation. You fail to comprehend that through this choice you have the power to create and change conditions.
#240: Aspects of the Anatomy of Love: Self-Love, Structure, Freedom
Get Another QuoteEach step in your own growth does not only aid your own happiness and fulfillment, important as this is of course, but is also a powerful atomic-energy-like force, a nucleus that spreads and multiplies with many other such nuclei created by yourselves and others….
#236: The Superstition of Pessimism
Get Another QuoteThe self-estranged person experiences frustration of a wish or of a goal much more than of the unfulfillment itself. In other words, the pain of not having what he wants is much less than the additional factor of receiving proof, as it were, of his worthlessness, inadequacy, unlovability his being nothing. Of course, this is unconscious.
#95: Self-Alienation and the Way Back to the Real Self
Get Another QuoteWhen you are unhappy, fearful, discouraged, in darkness, know at least that you are not in truth. This will make a lot of difference.
#250: Inner Awareness of Grace—Exposing the Deficit
Get Another QuoteWherever you find your negativity, even while you still choose to keep with it, contemplate that one day you will want to give it up in love for the universe; in love for yourself.
#202: Psychic Interaction of Negativity
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