“with our thoughts—any thought—we lose touch with the peace and contentment of the Now.”
― Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is
― Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is
“Beliefs can’t change reality, even though they change one’s experience of it. To be helpful, beliefs have to reflect reality accurately. The ego tries to change reality with its faulty beliefs—its shoulds and coulds—while the hero doesn’t bother with beliefs that aren’t true. He knows that only the ones that stand up to experience and match reality work and are useful.”
― A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey
― A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey
“But the hero lets the future take care of itself, because he knows the future never actually arrives. In reality, all there ever is, is one moment moving naturally and gracefully into the next, with or without the mind’s ceaseless thoughts.”
― A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey
― A Heroic Life: New Teachings from Jesus on the Human Journey
“that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.”
― The Exorcist
― The Exorcist
“The only thing that exists is the present moment, the Now, but we, as human beings, have a particular relationship with our thoughts that takes us out of the experience of the moment.”
― Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is
― Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is
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