Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.
By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive you own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions. ' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.
The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.
Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.
When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph. D. and the D. D. God may choose a country boy. . . God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!