Habits

Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
If we choose to believe we are helpless victims and that it’s all hopeless, then the Universe will support us in that belief, and we will just go down the drain. It is vital that we release these foolish, outmoded, negative ideas and beliefs that do not support us and nourish us. Even our concept of God needs to be one that is for us, not against us.
I have found that forgiving and releasing resentment will dissolve even cancer. While this may sound simplistic, I have seen and experienced it working.
I find that resentment, criticism, guilt, and fear cause more problems than anything else. These four things cause the major problems in our bodies and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. You see, if we are all responsible for everything in our lives, then there is no [continue reading...]
We may habitually think the same thought over and over so that it does not seem we are choosing the thought. But we did make the original choice. We can refuse to think certain thoughts. Look how often you have refused to think a positive thought about yourself. Well, you can also refuse to think a negative thought about yourself.
All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are. However, that is your past. It is [continue reading...]
There is no greater source of negative influence in your environment today than your television. Of course, as in every part of your environment, there is wanted and unwanted, and you do have the ability to focus and therefore to receive value from your television and media—but those sources do bring you a tremendously distorted, imbalanced [continue reading...]
You can silence the body easily but it is difficult to silence your thoughts
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences.
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.