Paul Ferrini > Quotes

“You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.
And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,
your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment
and shining in its endless beauty.”
― Paul Ferrini

“The cause of human conflict is simple: one person dehumanizes another. One side sees the other side as unworthy. As long as people who disagree perceive each other this way, even the simplest details cannot be negotiated. But let each person bring to the other the attitude of respect and acceptance, and even difficult details can be resolved.”
― Paul Ferrini, I am the Door

“Looking for unconditional love in a world of conditions must inevitably fail. Since all your brothers and sisters are acting out of shame-based patterns, they cannot offer you the love you know that you deserve, nor can you offer it to them. The best that you can do is raise each other’s awareness of the love that is necessary and begin taking responsibility for giving it to yourself.”
― Paul Ferrini, Love Without Conditions

“If you don’t work intentionally with the criminal to help him come to love and accept himself, he will re-enter society with the same anger and vindictiveness.”
― Paul Ferrini, Love Without Conditions

“Don't make your ability to love yourself conditional on someone else's ability to love you.”
― Paul Ferrini

“Your commitment to other people must be an extension of your commitment to yourself,
not at odds with it.”
― Paul Ferrini

“You cannot experience joy in life by opposing the ideas or actions of other people. You can experience joy only by remaining faithful to the truth within your own heart. And this truth never rejects others, but invites them in.”
― Paul Ferrini, Love Without Conditions

“To put it simply, you are never right to make wrong, or wrong to make right. To be right, make right.”
― Paul Ferrini, Love Without Conditions