Daily Message Archive

• ' Your biography becomes your biology.'
• ' Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.'
• ' Unplug from the BS and let go of the steering wheel.'
• 'Learning the symbolic language of energy means learning to evaluate the dynamics of power in yourself and others.'
• 'Healing requires taking action--it is not a passive event.'
• 'What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.'
• 'While we measure our own success in terms of personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.'
• 'The body and spirit are inextricably linked.'
• 'A breakthrough occurs when you recognize you are more energy than matter.'
• 'Thought alone, or action without thought, doesn't heal you. You need the chemistry of conscious thought and direction action combined.'
• 'Our psyches are naturally attuned to energetic codes and symbolic language.'
• 'Intuition is an essential component of personal health and appropriate medical practice.'
• 'We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.'
• 'Healing means getting over the pain, not marketing it.'
• 'Therapy is a boat to cross the river, we just have to remember to get off on the other side.'
• 'We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.'
• 'Consciousness is not a pleasure cruise on this planet.'
• 'Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.'
• 'The best way to experience true nurturing is to give true nurturing.'
• 'It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.'
• 'Never go to bed with a grudge inside you or beside you.'
• 'Forgiveness is like a rough diet with no payback -- you won't like it until it's over.'
• 'When something small and meaningless happens, it is protecting something big that is being born.'
• 'Slumming is hanging out in chakras below the waist.'
• ‘ Finance your faith, not your fear.'
• ‘ Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.’
• 'Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.'
• 'Healing requires a willingness to make changes in both your physical and your spiritual way of life.'
• 'Making contact with the archetypal realm allows us to see beyond the physical meaning of events and view them as Divine opportunities to evolve our consciousness.'
• ‘The journey of consciousness, of mysticism, is to come to know yourself and your own motivations.’
• `Earth is the place where choice & destiny meet.'
• 'Forgiveness doesn't look attractive until we get to the other side.’
• Present time energy is it's own transformer. The more energy you have in present time, the more voltage you can move through you.
• ‘Addiction is the lack of a developed will. You've given your will over to an external source that has authority over your biology, your psychology.’
• ‘The truth is that healing and change are one and the same thing.’
• ‘Call back the energy you are wasting on events of the past.’
• We are never being punished, only being taught. Everything is a teaching.
• ‘It goes without saying that not every healing crisis will have a 'fairy-tale ending,' but every effort you make, regardless of how insignificant it may seem to you, will always bring you closer to a state of spiritual and physical health.’
• What is wrong with us that we have to have yesterday's grief with us today?
• Change the magnet, change what you attract.
• Body breathes air. Spirit breathes prana.
• Everything that has power will always confront its polarity.
• Archetypes bring people together. Then, when their work is over, the real reason you are together reveals itself.
• If you have the inspiration, you have the talent.
• A tribe that has any control over you rules your biology.
• Consciousness is a relentless practice of being honest with self.
• Forgiveness is a path to my inner laboratory.
• Get bored with your past, it's over!
• The journey of life is the unification of fragmentation. Fragments are units of power that are out of control. We make agreements to come and collect ourselves.
• You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone
• ' Sacred Truth #1: All is one.'
• ' Sacred Truth #2: Honor one another.'
• ' Sacred Truth #3: Honor oneself.'
• ' Sacred Truth #4: Love is divine power.'
• ' Sacred Truth #5: Surrender personal will to divine will.'
• ' Sacred Truth #6: Seek only the truth.'
• ' Sacred Truth #7: Live in the present moment.'
• ' The four basic archetypes present in each of us are child, victim, saboteur and prostitute.'
• ' Release the need to know why things happen the way they do.'
• ' Bless your day in gratefulness and with love.'
• ' Do not project expectations of how you want this day to be.'
• ' The Divine is not limited by human time, space or physical concerns.'
• ' Be consistent and live what you believe.'
• ' Change is constant. Learn to go with its flow, whether it's peaceful or difficult.'
• ' Never look to another person to make you happy--happiness is an internal, personal attitude and responsibility.'
• ' Life is essentially a learning experience. Every situation, challenge and relationship contains some message worth learning or teaching to others.'
• ' There are no coincidences.'
• ' Practice forgiveness of others.'
• ' Positive energy works more effectively than negative energy in each and every situation.'
• ' Our emotions reside physically in our bodies and interact with our cells and tissues.'
• ' Healing is a matter of fact; faith is a matter of choice.'
• ' The Divine hears every prayer, even when we are not consciously praying.'
• ' Nothing empowers our ability to heal as much as our love and forgiveness.'
• ' The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.'
• ' Put your healing in the hands of the Divine, the source of the effortless effort.'
• ' Healing is a present-time experience. Don't look backwards or forward, focus only on the present.'
• ' Each day take down one boundary between you and the Divine.'
• ' Intuitive ability is present in everyone because it is a survival skill, not a spiritual intention.'
• ' Spiritual teachings encourage us to grow past and through painful experiences, each of which is a spiritual lesson.'
• 'Energy information is always truthful.'
• 'In healing any imbalance, whether energetic or physical, you must always involve both your mind and your heart.'
• 'Illness can develop as a consequence of behavioral patterns and attitudes that we do not realize are biologically toxic until they have already become so.'
• 'Belief in oneself is required for healing.'
• 'I am forgiving not for you, but for me. I am forgiving because I want my power back.'
• 'Our spiritual structure is as detailed as our biological structure.'
• 'Change can be terrifying, yet healing requires change.'
• 'Intuitive skill is being recognized as our most powerful sensory ability.'
• 'Get over it.'
• 'Feeling victimized only adds to your illness, and should it become a full state of mind, would qualify as an illness in itself.'
• 'We are addicted to the power of the wound.'
• 'Release victim consciousness and embrace forgiveness.'
• 'Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I think and what do I feel - in order to balance the heart and the mind.'
• 'Spiritual practice does not consist of a weekend workshop.'
• 'Guidance comes easier when viewed as a verb rather than a noun.'
• 'You can learn through wisdom or woe, it's your choice.'
• 'When taking something personally, it’s a signal to shift into an impersonal consciousness.'
• 'What you put your spirit into, has the power.'
• 'The language of the heart is symbolic; the language of the mind is literal.'
• 'The will and the heart must operate as a team.'
• 'When you push three times and nothing happens, don't push the fourth time.'
• ‘ What is a spiritual discipline? It is the discipline of becoming honest, of doing no harm to another and maintaining honesty.'
• 'Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for 'proof' that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.'
• 'We can achieve a genuine sense of peace about life only by releasing our need to know why things happen in terms of human reasoning and by embracing Divine reasoning.'
• 'Healthy changes of lifestyle and spiritual practice are parallel roads leading to the same goal, and each road needs to be driven along each day.'
• ‘Faith is the most challenging aspect to develop in ourselves. In order to have faith you have to have a crisis that requires you find it.’
• ‘You can't get away from your path.’
• ‘Look through the lens of symbolic sight.’
• ‘Look at the sacred text of your biological energy system for daily guidance.’
• We are under sacred contracts to activate certain energies in one another.
• ‘We cannot seek to heal an illness without first looking into what behavioral patterns and attitudes need to be altered in our life.’
• ‘To the extent that we forgive others, we are forgiven ourselves.’
• My job is to let this world transform me.
• For every time zone that we are in, other than here, we drain our life energy.
• Everything revolves around intention and agenda. If we are doing something out of strength, it makes sacred the act we are about to do.
• Words convey grace, which is what makes them sacred.
• We make contracts with attitudes.
• When I become conscious of something, I become responsible.
• The whole point of being conscious is to work consciously within your patterns.
• Law of the gods: get bitter or better.
• A forgiving heart is an honest heart.
• We are programmed to heal quickly. If this weren't so, we wouldn't become so ill by taking so long to heal.
• The dark night comes when we are most content.
• The healer archetype demands you come into present time.
• Our biggest challenge is to get out of the literal mind.
• Blame is a form of energetic cancer.
• We live our lives trying not to know what we were born knowing. This is the cause of spiritual madness.
• We are not handed perceptions randomly.
• Manifestation is expensive.
• Sabotaging your own opportunities is a serious illness
• We lose power long before we gain it.
• Words have alchemical power. When we speak, we are conducting an alchemical ceremony.
• Every question I ask is an invocation of power.
• God dismantles our life when we ask 'for what purpose was I born'?
• Most empowered position is to have my energy in present time.
• For every place where I am non-local, my electricity is diminished.
• Why suffer, when what we want is not in our contract?
• Our personal guardian angel resides in our auric field.
• Unless you are willing to invest your heart, nothing will change.
• If a job were a life purpose, people without jobs would have no life purpose.
• 'If you're in motion, there's something waiting for you. That's the law.'
• Archetypes are the architects of our lives.
• Every experience that we have contains purpose and meaning. Each event, each person in our lives embodies an energetic fragment of our own psyche and soul.
• Learning to read the archetypal patterns that influence your energy is the natural complement to working with the energy of the chakras.
• The energy that surrounds you, which is created by the chakras, contains all the data of your biology and your biography, so it makes sense that this energy would manifest in patterns of archetypes that affect your life.
• It stands to reason that the further we stray from our true mission in life, the more frustrated we will become, and the more out of sync our energy will be.
• By coming to know your mission, you can live your life in a way that makes the best use of your energy.
• When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power. I call this living in accord with your Sacred Contract.
• By developing symbolic sight and archetypal language, you will grasp the whole of your life with a level of spiritual clarity that can heal the emotional and spiritual wounds you have accumulated.
• In a sense, each archetype represents a 'face' and 'function' of the Divine that manifests within each of us individually
• Archetypal patterns awaken in us our own divine potential. They can liberate us from the limitations of our thoughts and feelings.
• Archetypes can help us shed light on the dark or little-known corners of our souls and amplify our own brilliance and strengths.
• Archetypes are a source of emotional, physical and spiritual power and can help us free ourselves from fear, although sometimes, when we first get to know them, a few of them may initially unleash fears within us.
• Our spiritual challenge with any archetype - or fear - is to face it and recognize the opportunity it presents to learn its inherent lesson and develop an aspect of personal power.
• With an archetype that we perceive as difficult or even malevolent, our task is to acknowledge it, overcome whatever weakness it indicates, and work to make its divine potential our own.
• If anyone tries to complicate your life - turn and walk away from them
• Whenever you become empowered - you will be tested
• The journey toward the Self is the self
• Be your own speed-keeper
• Don't animate your fragments
• If it's not about you, it's not about you
• You can't understand what you can't understand
• Don't make simplicity hard
• Everything in your life is directing you to become timeless
• The good thing about consciousness is that you don't have to act it out
• It's not a big deal to 'hear' guidance. It's a big deal to respond to it
• You are afraid of your own empowerment as much as those around you are of you becoming empowered
• You can't wait for someone to make your contract safe
• Our relationship to power is at the core of our health
• Your task is to learn the lesson that the teacher has for you rather than to resent the teacher
• Always try to see beyond the physical components of a crisis
• Talking does not heal; taking action does
• Healing one's body or one's life challenges requires daily practice and attention
• When we lack self-respect, our relationships with others are temporary and fragile states of intimacy
• Seen symbolically, our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development
• The stronger our spirits become, the less authority linear time can exercise in our lives
• We will all have Judas experiences
• Our lives change externally as we change internally
• First myth about healing: my life is defined by my wound.
• Second myth about healing: being healthy means being alone.
• Third myth about healing: feeling pain means being destroyed by pain.
• Fourth myth about healing: All illness is the result of negativity.
• Fifth myth about healing: True change is impossible.
• When you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful
• Our life is laid out in steps and stages arranged in such a way that we always have the opportunity for spiritual transformation
• Your Sacred Contract cannot be reduced to just one thing - one job, one relationship, one goal
• To free yourself of enmeshment in anger or old wounds, you have to climb the ladder back up through the chakras until you can view a painful experience symbolically and objectively
• Who from your present or past is in therapy getting over you, just as you've been getting over someone else?
• The energy weight of our history affects the density of our biology
• Fulfilling your highest potential actually means acting on your highest or deepest truth each moment of your life
• View every experience as a blessing and a remedy that serves your well-being.
• Illness can be a teacher, companion, or challenge-but not a punishment.
• Your healing path already exists within you.
• You must absorb the light and shadow of each day you live.
• Enhance the whole of life today through your actions.
• Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision.
• Memories are clever impostors, making it appear that an experience or relationship cannot be healed.
• Choose one spiritual truth and live fully in harmony with it today.
• Follow your mind, and observe where it goes to feed itself.
• You create harmony by making choices that feel right to both mind and heart.
• Healing requires that you admit the truth about yourself.
• Embrace the changes in your life.
• Celebrate all that is good and blessed about your life, realizing that gratitude is a powerful remedy.
• It is easy to get lost in endless speculation.
• Bless your difficulties and ask to see their hidden guidance.
• Know that each of your thoughts and deeds has the power to heal you-and those around you.
• Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind.
• Be mindful of how often you judge others.
• The only exception you should have in giving to others is what you expect of yourself.
• Admit that you block intuitive guidance
• Learn to pay attention to your body in every way
• Carry your own backpack
• What do your choices cost you?
• The inability to create is a serious illness
• When you negotiate your spirit, mind, heart, you sell your power of choice
• Cosmic laws are not punishment; they are laws
• The only way to have enough stamina to be true to yourself, is to follow your heart
• Be the bearer of only good news today.
• Recognize that you postpone even small, insignificant changes because intuitively you know they can ignite powerful ones
• Learn the spiritual practice of seeing God in all things
• Discover whether subtle changes increase/decrease your comfort level.
• Observe how you respond to your own creative voice – are you receptive or self-critical?
• Own your spiritual insecurities and lack of faith
• Become mindful of your reasons to stay angry
• You are where you are supposed to be and in every moment there is an opportunity to serve another or receive support
• Any form of assistance you offer is an act of healing
• Everything you do consciously is an invisible act of power
• All of life's lessons can be summarized in one word: power
• All of your physical and mental stress is rooted in issues of survival - concerns involving the lower three chakras
• Your relationship to power is always the catalyst for doing something or not
• We have to come to terms with our personal agendas and desires while on the path of impersonal, spiritual service
• We have to extract from our vocabulary the word deserve, a third-chakra word that does nothing but cause suffering
• It takes courage to become a warm-blooded, fourth-chakra intuitive
• Abundance means more than money; it means sharing my talents, knowledge, kindness and love
• To be unable to forgive is to live in hell, burdened, miserable, angry
• Get in present time and forgive the people who have hurt you
• There is no such thing as an insignificant act of love
• Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity
• A congruent person can afford to empower others
• I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill—a skill based in self-esteem.
• By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
• Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
• Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment.
• When I look at someone's face, I look beyond that face and into the cellular memory in my heart that says, 'Finally you and I have met again. And now we must find out why.'
• Below the waist you take everything literally' (i.e.: chakras 1-2-3 only).
• Learning the symbolic language of energy means learning to evaluate the dynamics of power in yourself and others
• Symbolic perceptions allow us to see that the real meaning of a crisis lies in showing us that we need to learn about ourselves
• We are not meant to stay wounded
• To blame the other players in our drama for helping to teach us what we need to learn is the height of foolishness
• Understand that all experiences either make you bitter or better
• Practice the art of transformation
• Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice
• Experience how difficult it is to live in present time. Healing is rapidly enhanced when you are focused in the present
• Observe the openness of your heart
• Lift the burden of fear from your soul
• By the end of the day, commit to that change or identify why you are choosing to sabotage your healing
• Learn that you can control your psychic energy
• Power is essential for healing and for maintaining health
• Recognize how and why you sabotage your empowerment
• Become mindful of whether you are unconsciously positively or negative
• Observe what quality of information you feed your mind each day
• Become mindful that every response in life is a choice.
• Learn that you can control your psychic energy
• Practice healthy nutrition
• Reflect on matters of pride and ego. Where you are losing power because of “false pride”, recognize that is poison to your spirit and thus to your healing
• Recognize how much stress is generated in your body through the need to control others
• Observe whether you are pro-active as healing requires pro-active energy
• Is your excuse real and if not, what is the real reason you postpone following your dream?
• Practice the art of transformation through the power of grace
• Practice the power of positive choice
• Every one is capable of helping you to heal, as you are of helping them
• Self-empowerment is extremely difficult and breaking negative habits are among the most challenging of healing tasks, but they are essential to break
• Learn that the way to set change in motion is to bless and appreciate even the most difficult parts of our life
• Recognize whether you love yourself enough to heal
• Visualize yourself in the company of heaven every minute of this day
• Use your wisdom and feel how powerful wisdom is when taken from thought into form
• Explore whether you have deep seated reasons to want to postpone healing
• Discover whether you enthusiastically support becoming a fully healthy you
• Bring humor to everything that causes you stress today; this is a more empowered response
• Practice visualization and to observe how easily distracted you are
• Become aware of how easily distracted you are by meaningless thoughts and emotions. You can choose to release them at any time
• Realize you have the choice to empower yourself in each moment
• Observe how much worrying affects your health and to counter the stress of worry with prayer and positive action
• Recognize that you are always waiting for something and that waiting is stressful and foolish
• The world becomes a vessel of the Divine when you see the Divine in all things
• Integrate your relationships into your quality of life. If your relationship is a healthy union, celebrate
• Examine the depth of your own conflicts with endurance
• Make one solid, effective healing choice by the end of the day
• Initiate one positive action in your life today
• Identify the ways you release personal responsibility to others
• Confront your core reasons for risking your health unnecessarily
• Examine whether your interactions with others leave you empowered or disempowered
• Realize you choose to stay anger when you can choose to heal
• Appreciate the Divine details that are woven into every second of your life
• Sometimes the strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning
• We grow primarily through our challenges, especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize aspects of our nature that make us different from the family and culture in which we have been raised.
• A breakthrough occurs when you realize you are more energy than matter.
• A calling is not a job, a career, or an occupation, but a pursuit that transcends ordinary life.
• A circle of soul companions keeps you from becoming emotionally and psychically isolated.
• A common misconception about love is that in order to have it we need another individual on whom to focus it; we need a target, recipient.
• A devotion to becoming conscious is every bit as arduous as attaining mystical union with God.
• A family member of mine has just brought the horrible case of Troy Davis to my attention.
• A focused mind and disciplined imagination are two of the strengths associated with the sixth chakra.
• A great paradox of contemporary therapy is that it cracks open so many crises of the mind that it cannot be healed with the mind.
• A heightened sense of your soul is an indicator that the divine has entered your Castle with very clear intent.
• A link to my newest newsletter, Truth as the Pulse of God: myss.com/news/archive/2…
• A more fascinating aspect of money, however, is that it can weave itself into the human psyche as a substitute for life force.
• A mystic is called to come into an intimate relationship with divinity.
• A prayer by Teresa for you throughout your day: "For if I have you, God, I will want for nothing. You alone suffice."
• A seed for transformation exists within the soul of each act of goodness.
• A soul companion is not a soul mate but a person with whom you share a bond of reverence for the spiritual journey you are both on.
• A spiritually mature person can act according to guidance that would strike the financially motivated person as foolish or risky.
• Addiction: Explored as an Archetypal Journey Toward Personal Empowerment Aug 25-28. myss.com/CMED/workshops…
• After mystical awakening, you continue your external life, but on the inside you are awakened, fearless, conscious, a resource for others.
• All depression arises out of feelings of dis-empowerment.
• All good lies in perseverance. -Teresa of Avila
• All spiritual masters show us that it is possible to simply learn how to love--without a reason, without a person.
• All things are possible, and heaven is always listening.
• An empowered sense of self can also develop in stages, over the course of our lives, in a series of mini-initiations.
• And trusting that, one day, when the time becomes appropriate, the meaning will be revealed.
• Another way of recognizing it is to observe the way your respond to a crisis.
• As part of your mystical awakening, you must come to treasure every detail of your life as significant.
• Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.
• Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal--a mark of spiritual passage.
• Being of service in the world is an expression of your soul's purpose--your purpose.
• Believe as if it were true now is a spiritual command from the Book of Daniel to visualize or pray in present time.
• Better to love much than to think much.
• But it is the response that will bring you the most power and the clearest guidance.
• By contrast, spiritual depression is more likely to be triggered by an absorption in metaphysical issues than by material concerns.
• Change is constant. Learn to go with its flow, whether it's peaceful or difficult.
• Changing the vocabulary doesn't change the journey.
• Choosing to walk the humble path--and to stay on it--requires that you reflect frequently: "What is my true power?"
• Clearly, the distinction between clinical depression and spiritual crisis can be a fine line.
• Clinical depression generally arises from external or physical events.
• Commit yourself to healing all the way to the source of the pain. This means turning inward and knowing your wounds.
• Consciousness is about coming to terms with or Individual power, with the power of our thoughts and actions to have widespread effects.
• Courage takes many forms and manifests differently in each of the chakras.
• Depression happens when the balance of power in your life shifts, and you feel that you are no longer calling the shots.
• Desiring to heal is not the same as having the will to heal.
• Detachment means nothing in your exterior world has authority over you.
• Developing intuitive ability will help us learn the lessons inherent in our own life experiences.
• Developing the confidence to pursue goals is one way that personal power becomes an agent of personal change.
• Doing a thirty-minute visualization once or twice a day and then returning to fear-filled thoughts the rest of the day negates your work.
• Earth is the place where choice and destiny meet.
• Equally important to the companionship of your soul is your growing familiarity with the cosmic realm and your interconnected-ness with it.
• Every action gives rise to a ripple effect, just as a pebble that is tossed into a pond sends out wave after wave, covering more space.
• Every human being will encounter a series of challenges that tests his allegiance to heaven.
• Every relationship in our life has a sacred component that we are meant to honor.
• Every time we advance in self-esteem, even in a small measure, we have to change something about our external dynamics.
• Everything we say and do matters. Period.
• Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results.
• Faith that transcends money frees people to follow their intuitive guidance without giving unnecessary authority to financial concerns.
• Finance your faith, not your fear.
• Finding the right words to describe an ineffable encounter with divine illumination is beyond difficult.
• For some, illness can provide a feeling of personal safety that sometimes allows them to slow down the speed at which their lives are moving
• Forgiveness doesn't look attractive until we get to the other side.
• From a mystical perspective, this energy counterpart of matter is not just "conscious energy," but also an expression of the Sacred itself.
• God is within us, but you cannot feign or force the voice of God with your imagination.
• Healing is not a quest to solve your mysteries; but to learn how to live within them.
• Healing means getting over the pain--not marketing it.
• Hidden within any kindness that someone does for you is a new beginning for your life.
• Honor one another is the motto of the second chakra energy.
• However, that maxim is not the simplistic desire to make things go your way.
• I Shall Not Have Lived In Vain, One of the most beautiful Emily Dickinson poems I have yet to come across: inspirationpeak.com/cgi-bin/poetry…
• Identify your wounds--have they become a form of 'wound power' in your life?
• If you are at all interested in following the case or taking action: dailykos.com/story/2011/09/…
• If you determine that your depression is spiritual, a solution is to "let go and let God," as the saying goes.
• If you have a giving soul, then give. If you don't, then learn.
• If you have converted your wounds into power, confront why you might fear healing.
• If you have the inspiration, you have the talent.
• If you react by asking yourself how you will will cope with the issue with physical responses (finding a new job, new spouse, ect) --
• If, however, you respond by questioning the meaning of life, or why God seems so distant from you, you are likely in a spiritual crisis.
• Illness can also offer the safety of not having to confront your inner issues or engage yourself.
• In an epiphany or awakening, the priorities of your inner perceptions are reordered to perceive the presence of the Divine within your life.
• In every situation, no matter how challenging, you have the option to pursue the meaning behind the event.
• In many spiritual myths heaven contacts the person who has faith and the directs that person by providing "manna from heaven."
• In prayer, you open your soul to become available to God--available to listen, to receive, to be.
• In some cases, this may simply mean trusting that there must ultimately be a positive reason for what has happened.
• In the Fifth Mansion, your senses recede further and your soul gains the strength to maintain cosmic perceptions.
• In the Fourth Mansion, the soul ascends into the cosmic heart of the sacred, divine love.
• In the Indian system the seventh chakra is known as the "thousand-petaled lotus," an indication of the tremendous potential energy it holds.
• Insecurities about our daily survival are located in the lower chakras.
• Insisting that the external environment meet certain conditions before you are to become internally focused is itself a distraction.
• Intuitive ability is present in everyone because it is a survival skill-- not a spiritual intention.
• It compels us to form external relationships to resolve these polarities.
• It makes no sense to seek to become intuitively conscious, then work to keep that consciousness from upsetting our lives.
• It may have its roots in a chemical imbalance or a traumatic life change--anything from a divorce or the loss of a loved one to illness.
• It takes great courage to look for God, it takes even more courage to find God.
• It's one thing to understand intellectually the steps you need to take to heal.
• It's quite another to understand what you need to do on an emotional level.
• Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.
• Keeping your focus in a positive direction takes discipline and that level of discipline requires practice.
• Last week I had a lovely interview with Lilou Mace, creator of Juicy Living: liloumace.com/Caroline-Myss-…
• Learn to identify the sources of "organic divinity" in your life--that is, the many ways God is present in your life and always has been.
• Let your past fade into the past, where it belongs.
• Life is governed by the paradox of the divine.
• Little by little, as you ascend through the mansions, the soul expands.
• Live in appreciate and gratitude.
• Love influences and expands your capacity to intuit other people's vulnerabilities and needs and be open to helping them.
• Love is a form of grace. It gives us the stamina to endure what would normally be unendurable.
• Love is not thinking, but being, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Make it a daily practice to note where you have invested your energy.
• Master your responses to external events--don't try to control them.
• Misdirecting the power of a person's spirit will generate consequences to her body and life.
• Money, like energy, is a neutral substance that takes its direction from the intention of the individual.
• Most people are looking for a safe insight, not a healthy insight, because they want a safe passage into the future, into the unknown.
• Mystical experiences are both personal and impersonal.
• Mystical experiences have universal characteristics as well as unique intimacies shared between the individual and God.
• Never let the fear of what another person can do or what he or she can become determine the essential goodness of your soul.
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• Often, in this momement of heightened sensitivity, you feel oneness with whiechever "other" you are in relationship with at that moment.
• Once you have the seed of an idea, your sixth chakra helps give it shape.
• One great spiritual paradox is that we can exist in a universe so vast and impersonal yet be so intimately known to the divine.
• One needs soul companions because mystical experiences can be difficult to bear.
• One the physical level your sixth chakra mobilizes your intellect and attitudes to deal with any situation and communicate your ideas.
• Our creative energy draws us into an internal dialogue with the polarities of self, and our conflicting inclinations.
• Our new monastery, the world, is in desperate need of the strength of your soul.
• Our psyches are naturally attuned to energetic codes and symbolic language.
• Pay attention to any feeling that energy is leaving your body, and asses why and where it is going.
• People who cannot become fully devoted to the mystic path must still put their awakened souls to work, and choose to life lives or service.
• Practice letting go of your questions and placing them in the hands of the Divine.
• Prayer allows you to dwell on spiritual phrases and transcendent truths that lift your consciousness.
• Prayer removes you from anger, from the chaos of ordinary concerns or aggressive thoughts.
• Put your healing in the hands of the Divine, the source of the effortless effort.
• Putting faith before money reduces money from its status as leader to that of servant, its more appropriate position.
• Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with disintegrating our ability to relate confidently to the external world.
• Release the need to know why things happen the way they do.
• Relying on intellectual awareness alone to heal your body is wishful thinking.
• Scarcity of money should never translate into scarcity of energy.
• Second chakra creative energy breaks us out of habitual patterns of behavior, thoughts, and relationships.
• Second chakra energies need to create life, to "move the earth," to make a contribution to the continuum of life.
• Service to one is service to life.
• Since becoming a fourth chakra culture, we have become therapeutically fluent in creating a new language of intimacy called "woundology."
• Slumming is hanging out in chakras below the waist.
• Some are seduced by the care and attention and can subtly implant a belief that if one was to ever get well, s/he would lose it.
• Some people who want to heal may not have the will to make the life changes required of them to heal.
• Spiritual crises can sometimes be caused by a traumatic change in your life--if it leads you to question the meaning and value of your life.
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• Such depression often results in an inability to function effectively and needs to be treated by an appropriate mental health professional.
• Such intimacy with the "earth of your life" is what the mystics identify as love.
• That clear intent of the divine is to engage you in mystery.
• The act of surrender is a statement that says, "I allow the Divine to make investments according to a wisdom greater than my own."
• The ancients described mystical experience as a sudden expansion of the energy of the seventh chakra flooding into the psyche and soul.
• The commitment to a spiritual path requires more discipline and rigor than the choice to live a conscious life.
• The Divine hears every prayer, even when we are not consciously praying.
• The divine within the details of your life is present in every second, every motion, every thought.
• The emotional energy that circulates within our energy field will ultimately affect our physical body--biography becomes biology.
• The greatest illusion of the New Age is that awareness alone heals.
• The heart holds the catalyst that causes the rest of the body-mind to heal in a chain reaction.
• The journey to spiritual maturity requires that you review the events in your life to find the wisdom or purpose they contain.
• The locale of our spiritual aspiration and development, this energy center's power becomes available to us through meditation.
• The maxim "you create your own reality" is the backbone of human consciousness.
• The mystical incident visits everyone in various ways.
• The paradox being that while the universe remains an impersonal operating system, each of us is still somehow intimately guided.
• The process of inner growth itself requires that you throw out belief patterns and superstitions that are simply useless or harmful.
• The reason being that every dollar a person spends is also an unconscious expenditure of their energy.
• The sixth chakra also is the energy center that empowers our attitudes, beliefs, memories, and the overall character of our rational mind.
• The sixth chakra is the center of wisdom in the body, its power affects the intellect and your ability to articulate vision and inspiration.
• The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
• The soul is destined to encounter God on a schedule, no matter how distracted we may be at these moments in our lives.
• The soul learns to trust the visions of its place within the cosmic grand design.
• The transcendent state is often described as lacking the physical limitations of time and space.
• The true spiritual path is one of humility.
• The truly humble person will has little fear of what God will ask of her or him because no task is too small or insignificant.
• The use of a mantra is very effective in learning to focus.
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• There is no logic or reason to the mystical path, no formula that brings God to your door.
• There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service.
• These positive thoughts must become the dominant perceptions with which your mind and emotions connect.
• Think love.
• Think of how easily you are distracted when you attempt to keep your mind and emotions aligned to a single thought.
• This changes everything, and it changes nothing.
• This elevates one's entire being to a level of consciousness that is fully transcendent of the physical world.
• This is hardly an easy response to have in a crisis, especially during the life-and-death situation that can often be.
• This reliance is addictive; it makes you think that your life is changing even as it renders you more powerless.
• Those who are serious about becoming conscious will discover that it's the same goal that Teresa had of becoming conscious souls.
• Thought alone, or action without thought, doesn't heal you. You need the chemistry of conscious thought and direction action combined.
• Thoughts and intentions are expressions of energy that move at the speed of light.
• To channel mystical love or healing grace is a calling.
• To heal from the misdirection of her spirit, a person has to be willing to release the past, cleanse her spirit, and return to the moment.
• To ignite the healing fire, you need to believe something with your heart.
• Too many people are frightened of knowing themselves, convinced that self-knowledge would mean living alone.
• Unless you are a practiced meditator, your mind will wander in every direction within seconds.
• Vest yourself in the belief that your life is a hero's journey of spiritual progress.
• We all begin or lives saturated in Tribal or group belief patterns, starting with those of our biological tribes.
• We all tend to look upward when the ground beneath our feet shifts out of control.
• We each choose to participate in the greater reality that the heavens have created.
• We each have the power to choose how to respond to every situation in which we find ourselves.
• We need the grace of Reverence in order to surround ourselves with a sense that we are living in the landscape of the Sacred.
• We now use the revelation and exchange of our wounds as a substance of conversation, indeed as a glue that binds a relationship.
• We often make the mistake of measuring God's presence in our lives by our level of personal comfort.
• What the gods watch for in our actions and thoughts, is whether we are generous enough to help a fellow traveler on this planet.
• When dealing with fate and destiny, if you choose empowerment and manage your destiny well, it will do its work for you.
• When people equate money with their life energy, the consequences are usually negative.
• When something small and meaningless happens, it is protecting something big that is being born.
• When you receive an intuitive impression about yourself or the person you are reading--always stick with your first impression.
• Whether games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• While we may be able to envision endless possibilities, we need an instrument that is skilled at focusing attention and applying imagination
• Withdraw your soul from your history, from chapters of your life that are over and done with.
• Yet even the choice to become conscious needs to follow certain rules and stages.
• You are in charge of how you see the moments of your life and how you interpret and appreciate them.
• You are no stranger to mystical experiences.
• You can make a simple declaration to the Divine that your attempts to direct your spiritual life have become empty, and that you need help.
• You can never know the wheels of goodness you will set into motion by following your destiny.
• You do not keep company with the deal--including people. places, past memories--that do not serve your well-being.
• You don't float away, divorce your mate, take off for the hills, or fast, but you have a passion to be congruent.
• You don't need a wishbone; you need a backbone.
• You don't need something great and huge to change the quality of your life.
• You evaluate the idea intellectually and decide whether you want to "manage" the birth of this idea into its physical form.
• You go toward God as you get further into your soul and detach from the chaos of the world.
• You may feel that you have reached a dead end, that you've been abandoned by God or have no hope of experiencing divine union.
• You may live a perfectly ordinary life in the world, but your interior life is anything but ordinary.
• You need someone who believes you when you have a mystical experience.
• You need to achieve a working relationship with your inner resources to be able to quickly eclipse a negative thought with a positive one.
• You need to know at least one individual who recognizes the truth in your experiences.
• You need to share them with others who are on the same path and who are not afraid of it.
• You need to train your mind and emotions to respond to the positive commands you create.
• You run the idea through your intelligence to see if you can work with it.
• You shouldn't attempt to share your intense personal work or mystical experiences with just anyone.
• You will have a passion to have your instincts, conscience, intuitive guidance, and mystical relationship to God exist in harmony.
• Your seventh energy center can inspire you to see beyond the limited range of the separate self and into trans-personal or cosmic vision.
• Your soul becomes a channel for grace.
• Your spiritual work is a higher state of consciousness that would not be real for most people.