by Emmet Fox

What do you think of the nature of God? What do you think God is like? That is the most important question in the whole world because your idea of God will determine your whole life. From the very marrow of your bones right down to the farthest place your influence goes, all is determined ultimately by your real belief about the nature of God.

If you say, The truth is that it is so hazy I don't know what I think about God -- and that is true of many people -- then it will leave your life hazy, drifting, and undetermined. It is your conception of God that makes your whole life. It makes you what you are. It makes your health, your appearance, your home, your business. It makes the kind of friends and enemies you have and the kind of people you meet. Of all the important things that should be taken care of, the one thing that really matters is your idea of God, because that determines everything.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)

Your idea of God is not the name you give to God. It does not matter what you call God. These are only names. The real name of God for you is your idea of God; not mine, not the one your father or mother taught you, not the local minister's idea, but your own honest and real idea of God. That will govern your whole life. That is the name of God for you, and you cannot have it in vain.

The question is sometimes asked, "Do you believe in God?" But that question and its answer can have no meaning until you say what kind of God you believe in. Then it has a meaning. The only intelligent question is what kind of God do you believe in, because everybody believes in some God, even those who do not like the word. And you cannot believe in any kind of God without getting the result of that.

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

If you believe that God is good; God is love; God has all power; God is intelligence; all the conditions of your life will steadily improve. Some conditions will clear up much sooner than others. Some people will demonstrate harmony and well-being sooner than others. These things are only a matter of degree. But when you really believe that God is all these things, as unquestioningly, as unemotionally as you believe in the soundness of the George Washington Bridge when you cross it in a car, then everything will begin to come right.

You cannot take the name of God in vain. You cannot do it. Whatever your idea of God is, whatever idea you really believe in, that will be expressed in your life. A limited God will be limited, a cruel God will react to you cruelly and without love. You will suffer the results of that. If you believe in a weak God, you will suffer the consequences of weakness. If you believe in a human God, you will have all the trouble you would have if a human being really could run this universe.

However, if you believe that God is spirit, and think what spirit means, and if you believe that God is love, and intelligence, and life, and wisdom, and think what these things mean, and really believe it, you will get the results of that kind of God. Your conditions will improve as the days and weeks go by. You will go from strength to strength. Your health, your surroundings, and your understanding will increase and multiply -- "Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away" -- because you cannot take the name of God in vain.

Emmet Fox (1886-1951)

Remember that words do not become true because you affirm them. That is the common confusion about the practice of affirmative prayer, that if you speak words of Truth over and over, you impress them on the subconscious mind and thus they become true for you. They do not become true because you affirm them. You affirm them because they are true. You are synchronizing your consciousness with the reality of the Truth.

Eric Butterworth

Do not be afraid; only believe.

Mark 5:36

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Paramahansa (Supreme swan)
Yogananda (Union bliss) Mukunda Lal Ghosh (1893-1953)

Excerpts from a talk given on October 26, 1939 Silently and surely, as you walk on the path of life, you must come to the realization that God is the only object, the only goal that will satisfy you; for in God lies the answer to every desire of the heart.

What man does not realize is that unless and until he goes back to the Source, back to God, he will have to struggle to fulfill endless desires. Reflect on that.

Man cannot help having desires, and it is not a sin to have them, but most human longings hamper fulfillment of the supreme desire to return to God, hence they are detrimental to man's happiness. Until he wants and has God, man will continue to long for whatever else he believes will make him happy.

One thing you must remember: Cut out begging from your prayers. Change your old attitude of supplication. You should pray to God intimately, as His child, which you are. God does not mind when you pray from your ego, as a stranger and a beggar, but you will find that your efforts are limited by your consciousness.

Your mind, having descended from almighty God, is not satisfied with the offerings of this world; and it will never be satisfied, because you have lost your soul's richest treasure, which alone can satisfy all your desires, and that is God.

Were heaven itself the same every day, we wouldn't want it. We enjoy variety. The stereotyped conception of heaven is all wrong. If it were boring, all the saints would pray to come back to earth for a little while. Heaven is something infinitely different, ever pleasantly new... .

Carry within you a portable heaven, and in life or in death, in heaven or in hades, that inner heaven will be with you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

While you are learning to swim in the sea of life, you can help others learn to swim.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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We are luminous beings.
We are perceivers.
We are an awareness.
We are not objects.
...The world of objects and solidity is a way of making our passage on earth convenient. It is only a description that was created to help us. We, or rather our reasons, forget that the description is only a description and thus we entrap the totality of ourselves in a vicious circle from which we rarely emerge in a lifetime.

Carlos Castaneda (1925?-1998)

Light expresses itself in billions of different forms to create the material universe. Light is a living being that contains all of the wisdom of the universe and occupies every space. There is no empty space between the stars, just as there is no empty space between the atoms in my body. The space between the stars is filled with light; it only appears empty when there is no object to reflect the light...like a mirror.

don Miguel Ruiz

Toltec theory holds that light is everywhere in the universe and is aware. We are made of light that has crystalized into what we can call matter.

Sheri Rosenthal

Then God said, "Let there be light;" and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good.

Genesis 1:3,4

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

Ellen DeGeneres

God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

John 1:5

I see you everywhere, your form is infinite...a mass of light, shining everywhere, with incomparable radiance as of the sun and blazing fire.

Gita XI:16,17

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1883)

Light was an important reality to Jesus. Perhaps we do not fully appreciate His teachings or the great experiences of His life until we see the light. So, what is light? Perhaps light is an every-where present reality which sometimes, as a result of certain conditions, becomes visible to the eyes. Light may well be the one great reality of things, beyond appearances.

Eric Butterworth

All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question, 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks he knows it, but he is mistaken.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Deep within the self is the light of God. It radiates throughout the expanse of his creation. The heart lotus flower blossoms forth and eternal peace is obtained, as one's light merges into the Supreme light.

Sikh Guru Amar Das (1479-1574)

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

Walk as children of light.

Ephesians 5:8

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SALUTATION TO THE DAWN

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course
Lie all the truths and realities
of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow only a vision,
But today well lived
makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day!

Such is the salutation of the dawn.

by Kalidasa, Indian dramatist (Circa 450)

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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne Dyer

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Meister Eckhart (1260-1326)

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)

Do you feel that you have a future moment to get to that is more important than living Now? Since the future never arrives, except as the present, it is a dysfunctional way to live.
It generates a constant undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honor life, which is Now.

Eckhart Tolle

It is your day. You are alive in it. It is an unfolding opportunity to express and to grow. Of all persons in all ages, no one has more reason for thanksgiving than you.

Eric Butterworth

The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

the Baal Shem Tov -- Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (1698-1760)

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1883)

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last. Seize the day. (Carpe Diem!)

Horace (65-8 BC)

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For a long time we have been accustomed to the compartmentalization of religion and science as if they were two quite different and basically unrelated ways of seeing the world. I do not believe that this state of doublethink can last. It must eventually be replaced by a view of the world which is neither religious nor scientific but simply our view of the world. More exactly, it must become a view of the world in which the reports of science and religion are as concordant as those of the eyes and ears.

The Joyous Cosmology 1962 (from the introduction by Timothy Leary)

"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The point is to know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that "I" and all other "things" now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them -- to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed, you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help clinging to the rocks falling with you. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable suprise: you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

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Alan Watts (1915-1973)

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Allan Watts Blues by Van Morrison

Well I'm taking some time with my quiet friend.
Well I'm takin' some time on my own.
Well I'm makin' some plans for my getaway;
There'll be blue skys shining above.
When I'm cloud hidden,
Cloud hidden,
Whereabouts unknown.

I have promised myself that if and when I reach the age of seventy, I shall retire to a mountain slope near the ocean and raise a small garden of herbs...and if the world presses too much in on me, my wife will respond to unwelcome visitors in the words of Chia Tao's poem Searching for the Hermit in Vain:

The masters gone alone
Herb-picking, somewhere on the mount,
Cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown.

Alan Watts (from Does It Matter?)

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The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

Chuang Tzu (circa 400 B.C.) translated by Burton Watson

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

No word is ever anything more than a metaphor.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

Eihei Dogen (1200-1253)

Know that words are words and nothing else. When Zen wants you to taste the sweetness of sugar, it will put the required article right into your mouth and no further words are said.

Dr. D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966)

All the problems vanish when you are in the nonverbal dimension of consciousness. You see the answers to all the questions that theologians and metaphysicians ask and you see why their questions are absurd. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)-1951)

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La illaha illa 'lla' Hu (There is no God but God)

Jelaluddin Rumi was born in Afghanistan sometime around 1207; he died in Turkey on December 17, 1273. Rumi was a sufi (a mystical branch of Islam). The sufi's have many different orders, and Rumi founded the Mevlevi Dervish Order (of "Whirling Dervish" fame). He was a poet of timeless wisdom, and immense heart. The quotes in the podcast are from The Essential Rumi -- translated by Coleman Barks.

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If you wish to know more about the sufis a good place to start is The Sufi Wind

A SUFI PRAYER:

Beloved Lord; Almighty God!
Through the rays of the sun; through the waves in the air;
through the all-pervading life in space --
purify, and revivify me, and I pray,
heal my body, heart, and soul. Amen

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927)

revivify v. To give new life to.

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From The Simple Way site.

Ask God for help. Every morning, every single morning, as soon as you wake up, call on God to help you remember to Remember -- to teach you how to Remember. "Dear God, please be my Teacher, and use this day as a classroom in which to Teach me Who and What I Am in Truth." Repeat this prayer throughout the day, as often as you can. And every evening, every single evening, before you retire, thank God for the help you received during the day, even if you were so distracted by events that you did not notice it, and ask God to make the same use of your dreams in the coming night, so that, even in sleep, you continue to be God's Student. Do this with joyful determination.

As this process unfolds, do not be hard on yourself if you do not see or feel its effects immediately. God is incapable of ignoring a heartfelt call. So, if you mean it, you will be heard, and sooner or later, you will Remember. Thank God.

Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet --
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1806-1892)

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Spiritual Spice is designed to help you to open your eyes; sit up, and enjoy the view.

This Podcast's background music is Gymnopedie #1 by Satie.

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(rejoice v. To feel joyful or be delighted).

"Without being happy you will not even be able to find Him."

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Emmet Fox (1886-1951)

Besides being an author, Florence was also an accomplished illustrator. Above is a drawing she did for the January, 1900 edition of a magazine named The Century.

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Background music is from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite;
Swan Lake Suite, and Gustav Mahler's No. 8 Veni Creator Spiritus
-- conducted by Leonard Bernstein

It is necessary, taught the Sefat Emet, to seek the new in every moment. The Infinite One, the Force of the Universe, renews all creation in each new second. Every second the creation is being supercharged with the vitality of its is-ness, of its fresh goodness.  Human beings need to permit themselves to be renewed in every moment.... Every moment we should be ready to move to a new place, to a higher level, to seek the new.Avram Davis The Sefat Emet -- Judah Aryeh Leib (1847-1905) -- was a Polish Jewish mystic).

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.  the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760) The basic ingredient of all humility is the desire to seek and do God's will. Bill Wilson (1895-1971) If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?   Rabbi Hillel "The Elder". (60 BCE - 9 CE)                          (Rabbi Eugene Borowitz has translated the above Mishnah as: "If I don't stand up for myself, who should? But if I am only self-centered, what good am I?") Entrances to holiness are everywhere. The possibility of ascent is all the time. Even at unlikely times and through unlikely places There is no place on earth without the presence of God. Midrash And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. ...Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. Exodus 3:2,5 Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries.... Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Get rid of the distinction between the sacred and the secular. God is present everywhere...it is always the Sabbath Day, and the place whereon you stand is holy ground. Emmet Fox (1886-1951) An interesting site to explore the Hebrew alphabet is: http://inner.org/hebleter/index.htm   To top To bottom

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race; a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age, and a new meaning for every civilization. -- Aurobindo

The Bhagavad-Gita is a Hindu holy book that has been around for over 2,000 years. The title is commonly translated as the "Divine Song,"

On the surface, the Bhagavad-Gita tells the story of an Indian prince named Arjuna engaged in an epic battle against a great opposing army. Arjuna's only hope for victory is to follow advice given to him by his mentor Krishna, (the image shown depicts Krishna playing the flute).

The esoteric or hidden meaning of the Bhagavad-Gita is that the battle represents Arjuna's inner struggle as he encounters various obstacles on the spiritual path.

Arjuna represents everyone on a spiritual journey. Arjuna is us. At the beginning of the Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna looks at the formidable army he faces and loses all hope of emerging victorious. He loses his nerve; drops his weapon, and collapses in despair.

At this point his advisor -- Krishna -- tells Arjuna that this sort of attitude just won't do. "Stand up Arjuna!" he tells him.

Stand up indeed. (Bhagavad-Gita 1:47, 2:1-3)

The spelling used here -- Bhagavad-Gita -- is the most common one. There are several variations, and it is also called simply -- the Gita.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous. Albert Einstein (superfluous adj. Beyond what is required. The Bhagavad-Gita...is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity. Aldous Huxley The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. Herman Hesse

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In Tune With the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine has sold over 2,000,000 copies. It has been in print for over a century.

Some editions of Henry Drummond's spiritual classic The Greatest Thing in the World have been published with a certain sentence omitted. Spiritual Spice offers the expunged sentence below.

 "For it is perfectly certain -- and you will not misunderstand me -- that to enter Heaven a man must take it with him."

 Dr. Henry Drummond (1851-1897)

The deleted sentence occurs in the "analysis of love" section under Good Temper. Spiritual Spice has no opinion regarding Dr. Drummond's statement, but we do believe he would have wished it to be included in any edition of his book. An edition of the book, with the sentence, can be found at the Spiritual Spice Storefront .  An online edition of The Greatest Thing in the World as Dr. Drummond wrote it may be found at henrydrummond.wwwhubs.com/

What is love?

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Transcendence restores humor. Spirit restores humor. Suddenly smiling returns. Too many representatives of too many movements -- even many very good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies -- seem to lack humor altogether. In other words, they lack lightness, they lack a distance from themselves, a distance from the ego and its grim game of forcing others to conform to its contours. There is self-transcending humor, or there is the game of egoic power. ...We have chosen egoic power and politically correct thought police; grim Victorian reformers pretending to protect civil rights; messianic new paradigm thinkers who are going to save the planet and heal the world. They should all trade two pounds of ego for one ounce of laughter.

One Taste

Everything in the dream is basically fun, at some deep level, except for this: when you see your friends suffering...you want to relieve their suffering, you want them to wake up too. Watching them suffer is not fun. And so a deep and powerful compassion arises in the heart of the awakened ones, and they seek, above all else, to awaken others....

One Taste

Ken Wilber

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All of my life I wanted to be somebody. Now, I am finally somebody...but it isn't me.

Wayne Dyer

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I Stand by the Door

I stand by the door. I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out.

The door is the most important door in the world -- it is the door through which men walk when they find God. There is no use my going way inside and staying there, when so many are still outside and they, as much as I, crave to know where the door is.

Men die outside the door, as starving beggars die on cold winter nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter. Die for want of what is within their grasp.

I admire the people who go way in. But I wish they would not forget how it was before they got in. ...You can go in too deeply and stay in too long and forget the people outside the door.

As for me, I shall take my old accustomed place, near enough to God to hear Him and know He is there, but not so far from men as to not hear them, and remember they are there too. ...so I stand by the door.

Rev. Sam Shoemaker (1893-1963)

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William James and Dr. Richard Bucke -- awesome. As always, hope you enjoy!

Our normal waking consciousness...is but one of several types of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense -- dancing.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.

William James (1842-1910)

When I was a youngster...I used to collect insects. Central to this endeavor was the killing jar. You take an empty mayonnaise jar, put lethal carbon tetrachloride on cotton balls, and place them in the bottom of the jar. You then drop the insect -- moth, butterfly, whatnot -- into the jar, and it quickly dies, but without being outwardly disfigured. You then mount it, study it, display it.

Academic religion is the killing jar of Spirit.

Ken Wilber

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The grateful mind is a great mind, and attracts to it great things.

 Plato (427-348 BCE)

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.  A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude towards gratitude.

Elie Wiesel (concentration camp survivor)

 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life...It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast; a house into a home; a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past; brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of them all.

Cicero (106-43 BCE)

If the only prayer you say in your life is "Thank You," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart (1260-1327)

Gratitude is heaven itself.

William Blake (1757-1827)

[Some people] have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

A. H. Maslow (1908-1970)

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in ink.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Thanksgiving is not just a reactive emotion; it is a causative energy.

Eric Butterworth

An attitude of gratitude is most salutary, and bespeaks the realization that we are now in heaven.

Ernest Holmes (1887-1960)

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

I feel a very unusual sensation -- if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Spiritual growth is in direct proportion to our ability to accept the good fortune that life can provide. During the past fifty years, during which I have met many thousands of people, I have never known of anyone with a habitual poverty consciousness who experienced an obvious degree of spiritual growth. I have known many such people who were pleasant, kind, and well-intentioned, and some who were able to generate a pleasant mood when praying or meditating. But real spiritual growth? No.

Learn to be affluent: to always be in a continuous flow of resources and supportive events, circumstances and wholesome relationships for the highest good of yourself, others, the planet, and the universe.

Roy Eugene Davis

You are the child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Marianne Williamson

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Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph. D., served on a minesweeper during WWII. He has over 50 years of clinical and research experience in psychiatry. He has been Knighted into the Danish Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (est. 1070). He co-authored the book Orthomolecular Psychiatry with Nobelist, Linus Pauling. South Korea has bestowed upon him the honorific of Tae Ryoung Sun Kak Tosa (Foremost Teacher of the Way to Enlightenment) He is the Director of The Institute for Advanced Theoretical Research in Arizona.

As Love becomes more and more unconditional, it begins to be experienced as inner Joy. This isn't the sudden joy of a pleasurable turn of events; it's a constant accompaniment to all activities. Joy arises from within each moment of existence, rather than from any other source.

from Power vs Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

Science had decided that unless something was definable and measurable it was unreal and imaginary. Thus, science invalidated any serious study or inquiry into the human values of love, compassion, beauty, forgiveness, inspiration, faith, companionship, loyalty, gratitude, hope, and happiness -- in other words, all that constitutes the actual core and reality of human existence and motivation. Science...is, however, the best tool man has had thus far for evaluating and manipulating the physical world. That it has limits is not a defect but merely defines its range of usefulness.

from The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden

"Physics, beware of metaphysics." Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Turn only to love and to God as the source of life and joy. This choice is available in every instant. When finally chosen the reward is great.

from I: Reality and Subjectivity

Contextualizing earthly phenomena as evidence of the "wrath of God" is primitive, naive, and an anthropomorphic distortion of the Reality of Divinity.  God is not emotionally imbalanced, or needful of psychological help, spiritual counseling, or anger-management classes.

from Discovery of the Presence of God: Devotional Nonduality

Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph. D.

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