“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.”
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“Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.”
“To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.”
“This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.”
“In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.”
“You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.”
“Some people do have softer boundaries.”
“The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.”
“I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.”
“Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.”
“Music attracts the angels in the universe.”
“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”
“Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to puzzle me than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing but how to become wholly GOD'S. This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.”
“Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.”
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
“I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.”
“When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives”
“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
“When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.”
“Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.”