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“The basic fact about life on planet earth is that God has not created evil and God has not created imperfection, limitations and suffering. These things were created by human beings. These things manifested in the material world because human beings made the choice to focus their attention on imperfection.”
― The Mystical Teachings of Jesus
― The Mystical Teachings of Jesus
“We teach by demonstrating that there is more to life than what most people were brought up to believe.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“millions of spiritual people are seeking to change society by converting everyone else into becoming members of their specific group. In my humble opinion, this can never work.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Carl Jung, who talked about the “collective unconscious,” but many others have developed similar ideas. The concept is that a group of people—even humanity as a whole—develop a collective state of consciousness that affects all people who are part of the group.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“This inevitably puts you in conflict or competition with other people for the simple reason that you build esteem only by comparing yourself to others.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“This state usually cannot last and I believe the reason is that it actually stops our genuine growth. The underlying purpose of your spiritual path is that you discover who you really are, you discover your real self.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Many spiritual and religious teachings talk about the concept that we have forgotten who we are as spiritual beings and have come to see ourselves as human beings.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“right now we don’t actually have a clear definition of what kind of beings we are.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“We have to engage in a quest to discover what the self is; we have to walk the road of self-discovery. I believe that road must be a spiritual road.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“In the classical defense mechanism of the human self, I had resisted looking at my wounds. Feeling the presence of my Christ self now made me feel safe because I felt it did not come to judge me but to help me attain freedom from all limitations. And that suddenly made it safe to explore my wounds.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Perhaps self-knowledge and the raising of consciousness are the true keys to grasping and applying the inner teachings of Jesus.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Both Christianity and materialism deny that we have inherent value, that the self is worthy in and of itself.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“The basic law of creation, the basic law of life, is that you cannot stand still, that no form can ever be permanent and that any self-aware being must continually transcend itself and become more by expanding its awareness of its creative powers, its true identity and its oneness with the whole of God’s creation.”
― Mind Over Matter
― Mind Over Matter
“There is an entire industry out there that is aimed at making spiritual people feel special—all in return for a fee.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“There is an entire industry aimed at offering you classes or courses that supposedly give you spiritual or psychic abilities or raise your consciousness to a supranormal level.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“I find it hard to believe that a genuine spiritual master will tell me what to do when such a master should know that I will grow only by making my own decisions. For some people I have met, having a cosmic being give them personal instructions gives them a clear sense of being validated by the highest authority.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Paul admonished people to not only hear the Word, but to do the Word. I now say: “Do not simply do the Word—be the Word.”
― The Mystical Teachings of Jesus
― The Mystical Teachings of Jesus
“In contrast, solid self-esteem depends on nothing outside the self.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“spiritual outlook can also help us deal with a body that is overweight.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“The reason is that as spiritual seekers we don’t fit into any of the groups in the social pecking order.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“made it far less painful to look at my wounds and illusions.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can’t, you’re right!”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“she had started to see that the human self cannot set you free from the problems created by the human self.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“When I became older and read about Hitler’s personal psychology, it became obvious that he was driven to seek superiority because of his inner sense of inferiority.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Mainstream Christianity and scientific materialism are the two main paradigms or thought systems that dominate our society, and if either of them had given you self-esteem, why would you be reading this book?”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“I want to point out that the main reason our modern society cannot give us true and lasting self-esteem is that it cannot provide us with a meaningful understanding of what the self is.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“Many spiritual teachings say we can transmute our negative karma by using spiritual tools.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“do believe it is possible for us to communicate with beings in a higher realm and that many people are meant to do so in this age.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
“am not exaggerating; it can be scary to see what some people will believe in order to feel superior.”
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem
― The Spiritual Road to Self-Esteem




