1. When two people meet, the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He/she will be calmer, more confident, more at ease with the other.
2. Never permit the behavior of other people to tell you how to feel.
3. Pay little attention to what people say or do. Instead, try to see their innermost motive for speaking and acting. (Now, apply this very same rule to yourself and you become an enlightened person!)
4. Any friendship requiring the submission of your original nature and dignity to another person is all wrong.
5. Mystically speaking, there is no difference between you and another person. This is why we cannot hurt another without hurting ourselves, nor help another without helping ourselves.
6. When we are free of all unnecessary desires toward other people, we can never be deceived or hurt.
7. You take a giant step toward psychological maturity when you refuse to angrily defend yourself against unjust slander. For one thing, resistance disturbs your own peace of mind.
8. You understand others to the exact degree that you really understand yourself. Work for more self-knowledge.
9. Do not be afraid to fully experience everything that happens to you in your human relations, especially the pains and disappointments. Do this, and everything becomes clear at last.
10. The individual who really knows what it means to love has no anxiety when his love is unseen and rejected.
11. If you painfully lose a valuable friend, do not rush out at once for a replacement. Such action prevents you from examining your heartache and breaking free of it.
12. Do not be afraid to be a nobody in the social world. This is a deeper and richer truth than appears on the surface.
13. Every unpleasant experience with another person is an opportunity to see people as they are, not as we mistakenly idealize them. The more unpleasant the other person is, the more he can teach you.
14. You can be so wonderfully free from a sense of injury and injustice that you are surprised when you hear others complain of them.
15. We cannot recognize a virtue in another person that we do not possess in ourselves. It takes a truly loving and patient person to recognize those virtues in another.
16. Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
17. There are parts of you that want the loving life and parts that do not. Place yourself on the side of your positive forces; do all you can to aid and encourage them.
18. You must stop living so timidly, from fixed fears of what others will think of you and of what you will think of yourself.
19. Do not contrive to be a loving person; work to be a real person. Being real is being loving.
20. The greatest love you could ever offer to another is to so transform your inner life that others are attracted to your genuine example of goodness.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Do not worry about anything.
Do not worry about anything.
What you are not certain about, you will become more certain about as your time moves forward.
Convey the truth as you know it, be yourself, share what you feel, what you think.
It will change one day, but it may still be valid now.
Tune in to the person in front of you.
Be in the heart: it knows what to do and what to say.
No one knows -- and no one needs -- the whole story. They need the part, the chapter where they are at.
If you are uncertain, be in silence. Let Spirit choose. You do not have to offer a whole library.
Perhaps only a flower, a hand to hold, a few words carefully chosen.
When you are fulfilled, you are like a pitcher that can fill other glasses.
All you have to do is put in a little tilt. The glass has to be under there willingly, and then it is perfect.
So it is flowing, so it is honest, so it is real. If it is real, it will prevail.
Where it is more difficult and uncertain, perhaps it is a time to wait.
To get more familiar with the waters in that part of the ocean?
Pretty soon you will be swimming in the depths and you will look back on the time of wondering how, and you will understand that you moved right through those waters.
Let this time be like the bird preparing to fly out of the nest, soar through the skies and discover a bigger reality.
Once the bird takes flight, the wings take over. They know just what to do.
Think of it as the dormant angel in you.
Open the wings of your heart and discover how good it feels to let them take you places.
To take you into the glory of a New Morning!
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