The God that we work with in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness is the living, loving God. We call that the God of the heart. The God of the heart knows everything - and the God of the heart is in the business of forgiveness.

Through spiritual exercises, the knowledge of Spirit becomes more and more solid in you. You learn to discern the levels of the material world and the physical consciousness (mind, emotions, body, imagination) as being no more than what they are, and Spirit as being just what it is: your true home.

When you are present in the loving, then you are free.

Once you have learned the discipline of Spirit, freedom appears spontaneously. Joy appears spontaneously. And loving is entirely present.

If we don't experience love, there may be an attempt to deny it. In that attempt to deny love, there's often a separation, a pain, a death and a whole lot of other things that I don't prefer and I don't think you do either. There's no need for denial of love which is also spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e. The only need is to seek love, to look for love in people and things.

The Traveler takes you to the well of loving and dips YOU in It - all of you, not just your hand or your head or your heart. When you experience that total immersion in loving, you are willing to go into the waters of purification and of life; you are even joyous to do this. And you know there is no turning back.

Be who you are. Be Spirit's gift to yourself. Be your own Beloved.

Sometimes we really have it together as spiritual beings…and then we find our mouths betraying that by getting caught up in bragging and pushing our opinion off on others. Later, when we have bypassed that moment, something opens inside of us and we gain insight into our actions and think, "Wow, I didn't have to say that. I could have just kept my mouth shut."

Take good care of yourself. Find out what works to fill you and balance you; then you can give of your overflow and loving to your family.

Those so-called negative experiences we had in the past can be the very foundation our strength and wisdom is built upon today. Everyone of us have had to go through the hurt or we wouldn't know the joy. We've had to experience the dark so that we would recognize the Light.

Soul transcendence is about looking for the good. Choose to look for the good rather than declare there is no good just because you haven't seen it yet. If you're not seeing the good right now, then keep looking. Looking for the good in all people and things is the secret to soul transcendence and a key to happiness.

In spiritual exercises, you learn what you are creating and how. You learn to observe everything you think or do. You learn to concentrate the energy of Spirit inside of you and become a true channel of harmonious energy and balance.

You have to give up the past in order to live in the here and now of your life. We can all look back on our lives and say, "If only I could do it over I would do it differently." However, it won't change what happened back there, so you might as well accept what happened in your past. You can't change it and you don't have to dwell on it.

Words seldom do it for you. It is only when it happens that you have that experience. If someone tells you of spiritual things, you do not have the experience of that. But if the person is truly speaking from their center of Light, they may stir that center of Light within you, and that may be the beginning of your experience.

Often, keeping your mouth shut is a vital part of answering the questions you ask inside. You find that you can experience Spirit and ground that experience in your physical body just by keeping your mouth shut and not dissipating the energy by verbal chatter.

There's nothing in there that says you can't make mistakes. Jesus said, "Judge not, lest ye be judged." And if you make a mistake, get busy correcting it, because he also said, "Don't talk about the board in somebody else's eye until you get the board out of your own eye." In other words, go around and perfect yourself before you start judging everybody else.

Be glad you have any opportunity, great or small, to express your charity and compassion regardless of the resistance or indifference you may face. Loving is your true nature, as well as the true nature of all those who act against it by choosing negativity. This, in part, is God's calling unto each of us. This, in part, is the divine action and the partaking in the blessings that already are.

When you are loving, you are able to bypass an awful lot of the distractions of this world. When you are loving, you see the person with whom you are relating, not their physical body, not their emotions, not their mind, not their bank book or their income, not their role or image or facade. You see the reality of who they are and you are present in loving that reality.

The Soul is your truest reality.

When we invoke the Kingdom of Heaven, the reality is not all things are necessary. So if you'll set yourself up to follow Heaven, or seek it as best you can, then the things that are part of that in the very best of what it is can follow. And the things that are not part of it, that are not necessary, can somehow bypass you and spare you.