We eat the way we live.
In spiritual matters we remain beginners.
God, the very creative power at the center of the universe, is loving and caring like a truly devoted parent. This love is not one aspect of God…. but the very organizing reality at the heart of things. God is love.
You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.
What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.
What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.
The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.
Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.
There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-
The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.