Personal Growth

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy.
Mine is always your Highest Thought, your Clearest Word, your Grandest Feeling.
Your experience and your feelings about a thing represent what you factually and intuitively know about that thing. Words can only seek to symbolize what you know, and can often confuse what you know.  
Words may help you understand something. Experience allows you to know.
Be a Bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path. Your light can be the light which truly lights the world.  
Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts to experience.
Go to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others do and say.   Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?  
See the flower as dying and you will see the flower sadly.
The soul is very clear that its purpose is evolution...it is not concerned with the achievements of the body or the development of the mind. These are all meaningless to the soul.   The soul is also very clear that there is no great tragedy involved in leaving the body. In many ways the tragedy is being in the body.  
Grief is a natural emotion. It’s the part of you which allows you to say goodbye when you don’t want to say goodbye; to express—push out, propel—the sadness within you at the experience of any kind of loss.  
Awareness is what you seek. But awareness is not guilt, and love is not fear.   Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Yet do not confuse the one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.  
Feelings are the language of the soul, but you must make sure you are listening to your true feelings and not some counterfeit model constructed in your mind.  
It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent.  You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don’t mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.  
If all you desired is what your soul desired, everything would be very simple. If you listened to the part of you which is pure spirit, all of your decisions would be easy, and all the outcomes joyous.
Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life’s secrets. Those secrets are secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your Now Moment for the Highest Purpose—the creation and the expression of Who You Really Are. Decide Who You Are—Who you want to be—and then do everything in your power to be that.
Every day is sanctified. Every minute is holy. This, now, is the Holy Instant.  
Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to a different conclusion.
I am going to tell you this: there are no “rotten apples.” There are only people who disagree with your point of view on things, people who construct a different model of the world. I am going to tell you this: no persons do anything inappropriate, given their model of the world.  
There comes a time in the evolution of every soul when the chief concern is no longer the attainment of worldly success, but the realization of Self.
You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it.