Pat Rodegast > Quotes

“Prayer is to assure you of your connection with Home, much as when you were children and you left for the day. There was that moment of panic— I’m sure you remember it— when you had to call home just to be sure that it was still there. Prayer is like that. It is calling Home.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“Every bit of you is worthy of your loving.”
― Pat Rodegast

“Leave your heart open to Divine guidance,
not passively as a leaf upon the river,
but as a navigator on that river
who may flow with the lovely depth
and swiftness of the current
yet who also takes responsibility
for his own craft.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“Fear has silenced the voice of truth in your world, and this is the anguish with which you struggle.”
― Pat Rodegast

“You are not a beggar at the table of life. You are the honored guest.”
― Pat Rodegast

“Don’t be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe.”
― Pat Rodegast

“Therefore, you, as human personalities,
see yourselves separated from who you really are.
It is the clothes you have donned
in each incarnation
to impersonate who you are.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“All you have been waiting for is your own permission.”
― Pat Rodegast

“If it makes you happy, it’s what you’re supposed to do.”
― Pat Rodegast

“Fear tells you to fulfill the expected. Love says, "May I have this dance?”
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“What you love to do the most is the shortest distance between where you are now and your dreams.”
― Pat Rodegast

“Worry is distrust
put into a slot
that seems socially acceptable. If you say,
“I am worried about my children,”
everyone says, “Yes, of course,”
and thinks you are a good parent.
But if you should say,
“I really don’t trust the Divine Plan,”
what do you think the reaction would be?”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“Yet it is in that very illusion
that the seed of your truth lies.
As you explore the pain in your life
and accept that pain as your own creation
you lead yourself directly to the illusion,
to the darkness within you.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“The world does not have to be rational.
It has only to be experienced.
Rationality is the demand of the mind
that says to the heart,
“I will control here.
You are foolish and you know nothing.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“There is nothing but love.
Don’t let the masks and postures fool you.
Love is the glue
that holds the Universe together. The greatest need in a soul
is to achieve that loving of self
which will bring about the unity
wherein the judgements
that have caused such pain
are eliminated.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“How do I grow to become who I am?
By ceasing to be who you are not.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“Minds were designed for carrying out
the orders of the heart.
The mind answers the ‘how’, not the ‘what.’
The ‘what’ is a deeper matter. The greatest war in life within each individual
is between the intellect and the heart—
where the heart is saying, “This is so”
and the intellect is saying,
“I don’t understand, therefore I don’t believe.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“What is enlightenment? Everything and nothing.
Let me see if I can find another way to put this.
If I say to you: “enlightenment is all-knowing,”
then I limit enlightenment.
If I say “enlightenment is all-loving,”
I limit love.
There can be no beginning and no end
and your human vocabulary is rife with limitation. So let us say enlightenment
is being in the moment through eternity
without the intellect
but with the consciousness of all things. It is absolute peace
without the awareness of non-peace.
It is absolute love
without the awareness of hate.
It is all things without end
having forgotten the illusion of ending. It is bliss
without the memory of non-bliss It is simply ‘is-ness.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“When you enter into a human life
you enter into a perceptual falsehood.
This is what the Eastern traditions call illusion.
If you treat the illusion as truth
you may become embittered, fearful and ill. Instead, come into life assuming the perspective
of the creator of that life,
and see it all as a wondrous
and valuable learning experience.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“What you love to do, you do well. What you do well will earn you money. If there is not a formal occupation that honors your vision, then I would say it’s about time you took your creative power and designed a job for yourself. Is this fanciful? Not at all. Look back in history. Those who amassed great fortunes did not follow in the footsteps of structure. They moved with their own creativity. What brings you joy will bring you abundance.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book II: The Choice for Love

“The times of futility, depression, emptiness in your lives are not because you are unworthy or because life is empty, but because you are following something that does not belong to you, that can never fill you regardless of how perfectly you obey.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book II: The Choice for Love

“When your mind asks “Why?”
you realize how easily it is satisfied
with a superficial answer.
When your heart asks “Why?”
it wants nothing but the truth of God. The heart is an unerring compass
within each one of you.
The heart knows the soul
better than the mind does.
Unless your mind is in the service
of the heart
it becomes a warped and twisted master.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“Your truth is your power. The truth is the most freeing discovery you can make. To be free of the fear of death,
to be free of distrust, of limitation,
to be free to be who you really are—
these are the gifts that you will receive
by paying the price of introspection and honesty.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“The path to love is found
by experiencing what it is like without love
just as the path to Light
is to be aware of darkness.
You make the supreme choice. Love is not mastered.
It is allowed.
Love comes in many containers.
It can come through the flowing work of an artist.
It can be the magnificent self-sacrifice of a martyr.
It can be the firm resolution of a leader.
It can be the touch of a parent.
Something as simple
as taking the hand of a child crossing the street
is a monumental act of love.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“How can I know God or my deepest self when I’m not even sure I have any faith in the existence of these things? Faith is not an intellectual thing.
It is a feeling. You do not have to believe.
You only have to have the intent to believe.
You cannot will yourself to faith
but once you have removed the obstructions,
faith will be there
because it is a natural part of your being.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“When your mind asks “Why?”
you realize how easily it is satisfied
with a superficial answer.
When your heart asks “Why?”
it wants nothing but the truth of God.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“Love requires no practice.
Love is.
One cannot practice is-ness.
One can, however,
practice the decision to love.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“In your meditative practice
see that time of quiet
as an open door.
Through that door
you walk into a broader light,
into a wider sense
of self and reality.
Definitions
are only for clarification,
not imprisonment.
Remember that.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“As meditation, almost anything will do:
music, a quiet walk, an excellent meal,
firelight, candlelight,
holding the hands of a loved one,
whatever causes you
to center into the joy of your beingness
and to disregard the clamoring
of your intellect.”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

“You will know
your next step
from this step. You will never find it
any other way.
Your intellect
does not know it.
You cannot think
God’s reality.
You can only
experience”
― Pat Rodegast, Emmanuel's Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos