I really liked the first book. The second and third books had some good insights too, but it started to feel pushy and justification driven whereas the first felt genuine.
Book 1
-God will keep sending the same message until we understand
-God shows Himself in many ways, man doesn't fully accept any
-God doesn't care about the particulars, He wants us to do good and experience joy, we decide how to get joy- for kids imaginary play or tag, neither is right or wrong, either can bring joy
-There are only 2 emotions, love or fear. All stems from one or the other
-you only have power to change when you say I did this, take full responsibility
-becoming like God, it's our destiny, move forward, others will feel threatened or drawn to it, if all accepted it there would be no hatred, if we could all recognize this in others this world would be different
-Turn things to love instead of anger, the ego protects, love forgives
-give your anger to God, release it no matter what others do to you, story of being stood up on a date
-Acceptance inspires growth, criticism kills it, it comes from the ego, can still guide, but do so in love, turn it to God, God will direct your words when it comes from a pure place, not from the ego
-Marriage is from either from ego or Holy Spirit, growing in God together, entire world is blessed by healed individuals
-if we resent our mothers we will not be able to accept ourselves
-Your most basic self is love
-We can't accept happiness because we don't think we deserve it. We wrong ourselves far more than others wrong us.
-Those who participate in solutions are less distressed about problems
-We find threat in others success. Find joy instead. I learned this from a teenager in my neighborhood when we were discussing social media and how others lives aren't be really that good. She said "or we could be happy for them." That is love. We shouldn't play others down to feel better. Love instead. "In Heaven everyone is allowed to be successful."
-Change painful perceptions into light and knowledge.
-the world is not bad, it's wounded, seek to heal, seek light and love
-The question isn't what we've done but instead what we've done with what we've done.
-We are afraid of hell, so put ourselves there first- defense, fear
-the best leaders aren't the ones with the most followers but the ones who are most effective in inspiring independence
-God wants for us what we want for us
-You always get what you create and you're always creating
-come to a place where others believe you can love them, not want something from them
-See all as sacred souls in a sacred relationship
-Must see yourself as worthy before you can see others as worthy
-you will come to a day when others actions won't hurt you
-ask what would love do now?
-treating self with dignity, not allowing be abusers is love, love to help them stop their destructive behavior
-opportunity not obligation, he talked about the 10 commandments this way too.
-There is never harm in treating others as more than you see. Never see them as the enemy. If others feel you see them as more, they will live up to it, including how we see ourselves
-Act, say, eventually it will become part of you
-being, not doing, that is Spirit, I want to help my kids learn to just be, this is a great problem with technology today. I can see why there is a rapid decline in knowing God, we can't know God if we can never sit and be
-soul: indicates
mind: chooses
body: acts
-Make a life rather than a living
-Jesus thanked God in advance before performing miracles
Book 2
-soul speaks in feelings, sometimes we think we get it wrong because it leads us learning, we label growth- trouble and standing still- safe
-Live in the present. Check yourself often. I've heard this many times, but in an interview during "conversations with God" Marianne Williamson was asked a question and told she was good at doing this. It hit me what that really meant and how often I don't do that.
-We are not separate. We need to function as a whole in society, in families, with anyone.
-"There is no wrong, there are only things that don't serve you." I agree with the second part. I disagree with the first. There is right and wrong.
-Guilt and fear are our only enemies.
Book 3
I keep thinking that a lot of these things are true, but you have to be at a certain place in life to accept them. We must guide our children on the path of right and wrong. Without experiencing true principles what you think you want is what you'll follow but it often won't serve you. There is a foundation needed before a lot of these ideas will work.
From all three books
-Honor your feelings, don't force them
-What your body is doing is a reflection of you're feeling
-worry is almost as bad as hate. It is pointless and harmful to the body and mind.
-It is very difficult to reverse the effects of negative thinking on the body. It takes an enormous amount of faith in and retraining the mind.
-Importance of relationships. Provides life's grandest opportunities. Always helping us to see our next step in growth.
-fear is important too
-white is presence of all color, not the absence. God and love are presence of all things, all feelings, not absence of them.
-fear and love are opposite sides of a circle. We go around and around with them.
-decisions will be hard if we think too much. Choices cautious decisions will take forever, see expectations. Expectations are dangerous. They often lead to confusion and unhappiness. I've read this in many sources.
-when you speak in love it will rarely be taken in a negative or damaging way.
-delivery of a message is the most important. Do it with love.
-Harry S. Truman "I don't give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell."
-The way Christ taught was through empowering people. True compassion empowers individuals, it doesn't do it for them.
-I disagree with his idea that we can truly transfer what we learn. Every person must experience life. You can love and try to pass the wisdom along, but they must experience and choose for themselves.
-good advice on living in love and peace
-natural laws. If you hit someone else with a hammer you're really hitting yourself
-when you have found God you don't need to talk about it all the time. You have personal peace. You don't need to push or prove it. You know.
-If there is something you want, give it to another. If you want more love, love others. Give it and you'll notice you have it.
-Those who experience grief can overcome it. If grief is not felt it will stick.
-Chronic depression is repressed emotion. Rage is repressed frustration. Teach children to feel these emotions and work through them themselves and they'll be able to as adults.
-Individualism, separateness is the problem. We must start seeing things as a whole. We don't just raise our children. Everyone around us does. Grandparents have great wisdom. Listen to them.
-strength comes from connection not individualism
-"Act as if you are separate from nothing and you will heal the world"
-"Power with, not power over"
-God to is experiencing and growing
-prayer is the highest form of thought control
-A clean strainer is open to use better, but has more holes
-We can get out of an experience as much as we want to. We will usually mis out on all it has to offer. Be there. Be in the moment.
-What you resist, persists. Spread good. Trust you will be where you need to be. Invite it and it will come.
-celebrate and see the perfection.
-Mindfulness, silence, finding beauty in all things.
-Don't worry about getting, only giving. You will get back what you give.
-When technology takes over, we lose. It destroys us, overtakes us.
-by creating medicine that the body is intended to to the work to heal, we weaken ourselves.
-if communication is present, so is love
-when you are something, what you do will spring naturally from this.