Be very thankful you can grow regardless of any physical, mental, emotional or financial situation.

When you do your spiritual exercises and consciously attune yourself to the Soul within, you can move through the lower worlds in perfect protection. You can walk through your earthly life and learn all the lessons to be learned here but not be caught up in the glamour of this level. The best protection you have is your own Soul.

"Do good to those who hate you." You've got to do good to yourself so you can do good to others. "Bless those who curse you." It means you've got to bless yourself. "Pray for those who mistreat you." You've got to be praying for yourself. You've got to make the contact.

True wisdom lies in accepting your responsibility now, instead of waiting for time to change things, to correct things, to prove you are right.

Each situation in our lives presents a challenge and an opportunity to choose into the Light. There is something magnificent in every aspect of the creation. Choose to love more this day. Like the MSIA song, "I'm going to love more this day. I'm going to give more than I take. I'm going to live much more for the sake of living love."

If you always run to some physical body to ask physical questions and get physical answers, you may not learn to tune inwardly and go into the subtle levels of your own consciousness. It is important to reach within you to the source of knowledge and strength and to know for yourself what is right to do. On those higher inner levels, you cannot be deceived.

People around you start to be very thankful that they know you. Oh, there's going to be some who will try to degrade you because they don't yet know the integrity of their own life. They think degrading and blaming cures anything. Curing happens when you take responsibility for something and get it done. If blaming really solved anything, we'd all be off the planet.

It can help a marriage if husbands and wives share their thinking with each other. If you think your spouse won't understand, give them a chance to misunderstand before you judge. You may find out that your spouse not only understands, but they can add ideas you never even thought of. Give credit where credit is due.

As part of my own integrity, I decided a long time ago I would not do anything that I did not like to do. Not that I would always feel good; it was a deeper commitment than that. I became aware that there was something that would move inside of me to the heartfelt response of integrity.

No matter what attitude we form in relationship to the polarities we find in the world, we are still called upon to make choices. In each moment, we are always making a choice to be more loving or more unloving. The source of loving is inexhaustible. There is no way we can ever exhaust the opportunity to be more loving.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:14) The Word is the energy of God existing in pure Sound. It is the essence. It is the audible Lifestream and Lightstream.

Your suffering has always been based upon your weakness, so if you suffer your weakness enough, you're going to start getting strong in it.

Life on planet Earth is a learning process, allowing you a wide variety of experiences on many levels, and more important, the opportunity to learn from your experiences.

On the path to Soul Transcendence, you sometimes have to give up an immediate gratification or comfort for the long-range goal. It may not always be the most popular approach, and the results may not be immediately apparent. You have to decide whether it is worth the wait.

I think a lot of us are really perfect on a whole lot of levels. But we haven't reached that place of mastership, and the world is asking us, "Is that the best you can do?" And we say, "No, I don't think so." So we go back inside and work again on our own inner canvas.

Inside of you is the only place you can change anything. That is where everything lives.

No matter how dark or how cloudy or stormy it is, the sunlight gets through and touches us, reminding us that there is more to this world than the darkness, harshness, or storms.

You may ask to find where all reality exists. It exists in you. To find it, the key is to go back inside. Take the spiritual tone and practice it, practice it, practice it.

Because I work with people on the inner path, it becomes awkward for people who haven’t had that experience to grasp what it is, to have an understanding and to be able to flow with it. And those who do grasp it have found that their own integrity says, "But you see, that happened to me as my experience." And that experience builds; not only inwardly, but it tends to flow outwardly.

There truly are no mistakes on this planet as far as people are concerned. We are all here because we have a right to be here, regardless of what anybody says. We don't have to prove anything to anyone.