Suffering

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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.  
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.  
It’s critical to know that our bodies don’t attack themselves.
Compassion is the understanding of suffering. There is no peace, joy, or hope until those who suffer are understood. Compassion is the soul of these words; without it, they are empty. Compassion fills them with truth, honor, and purpose.  
When we’re sick, we question ourselves. We feel cut off from life, from what we were put on earth to do. We doubt basic truths, like the body’s ability to heal, because we haven’t yet connected to what’s really behind our illnesses. We go from doctor to doctor, medical community to medical community, looking for an answer. We lose faith in [continue reading...]
Spirit calls our current era the Quickening. Never before has civilization changed at such a fast pace. Technology has revolutionized virtually everything about our lives. We live in a period of breathtaking wonder and opportunity. It’s also an era of danger.  
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
The mind is the source of all suffering, and it is also the source of all happiness.
It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering.  
We came here to co-create with God by extending love.
Most people want the rewards of consciousness without the hard work of consciousness.
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind.
The thought system that dominates our world is laced with selfish values, and relinquishing those values is a lot easier said than done. The journey to a pure heart can be highly disorientating. For years we may have worked for money, power and prestige. Now all of a sudden we've learned that those are just the values of a dying world.
The desire to get something reflects a core belief that we don't have enough already. As long as we believe there is scarcity inside us, we'll continue to manufacture scarcity around us because that is our basic thought. No matter what we get, it will never be enough.
Your whole mind is a fog. This is the condition of the human mind.
The limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else.