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That I can see a better world, in spite of evidence to
the contrary, allows me to believe in miracles. I can not change you. Why would I want to
change an expression of Love that God would have me see. How can I have you understand me,
when in my humanness, I'm not yet sure I understand myself?
When floating on the current in the river of life, if there is something on shore I think
I want, and if it's to be, the means to get there will be provided. What we consciously
want is rarely the same as what we truly want. God is all there is; when I no longer fear
Him, I'll no longer fear all there is. "The only thing bad about bad luck is that
I've missed the message that would bring me good "luck".
I would love to love who you are, but I'm so busy trying to love what you are, that I lose
sight of my Self. It's the perception, and not the
experience, that is corrected by the lesson a perceived mistake teaches. Every mistake I
think I make can teach me it was no mistake. God has given me the gifts of time, talent,
and treasure; but I don't realize them for myself until I've given them away to others.
It is not my purpose to judge the form of my experience; it is for me to recognize and
accept the lesson it is to teach. My perceived success in meditation is determined by who
I think I take into the silence. The secret to finding the way home is to know what and
where it is. I am as God created me. Since "He don't make no junk", and if I
don't like what I see, it must be me that allowed it to look that way to me.
Man is not afraid of God; he's afraid of himself for believing God is to be feared.
Remember, when you put someone down, you still must look up to them. Acquiring knowledge
is not so much finding the right answers, as it is asking the right questions.
If I think people are putting me down, I need only look in a mirror to see who is doing
it. Self-esteem - the regard with which I hold myself as a result of individual values
discovered by me. I stay in a relationship, trying to find what I can't have, and for fear
of losing what I can't find.
"Catch 22": Education
is the process that develops self-esteem. However, self-esteem is what allows me to engage
the process.
Thoughts are like children, they can bring great joy when they behave, but can cause great
anguish when they act up. Love, like milk, can go sour if it
isn't used. Life is like a book. The Author knows the ending, but it's not ours to know
until we reach it. When I judge the progress of my spiritual growth by what's happening in
my life, I'm playing the ego's game.
It is not my purpose to perfect the illusion, but rather to perfect my perception of it.
To fully appreciate an experience, you have to experience it. When man sticks out his hand
to be paid, he receives in kind exactly what he believes is his worth.
I can see true love as being at one with, and in, Love; if it's not with God, I'm not in
Love.
It is I, and not the world, that call the shots. Who I hold in awe is but a projection of
what I would be, but deny myself. If I can be moderate in what I think to be a bad habit,
what's my incentive to want to break it? What you don't think won't hurt you, it's what
you do that does. Peace is not freedom from conflict; peace is the acceptance of Love.
I did not write this and I don't even know who did, but I sure feel this in my heart. So I
have adopted it. :)
Namaste,
Serenity
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