I had a wonderful experience last night.  I pray that it repeats
and deepens.  I would make it so, but another is involved and has
a choice.

Hugs,
Me

It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself
up to the original cause of one’s being. Do not delude yourself by
imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One’s source is
within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek
the source and merge in it.
– Sri Ramana Maharshi

Question: What stops me from enjoying my life more?

Answer: You have habitual patterns, like a number of people, where you
focus on the negative, you get involved in the negative, and you get
fascinated by it.

That’s one of the elements that negativity has on our consciousness –
fascination. It has an attraction, a glamour, and it holds our
attention. It’s allowed to do that, to have energy that our
consciousness responds to, but we’re larger than whatever the
negativity is. So we have the ability to transcend it. Always, that
ability is there. The more you know that ability and direct it to
overcome, the less the negativity impacts on you. You may find that
you’re simply directing your energy into what serves you, into who you
are.

– John-Roger, from Heart Journal

One key thing really makes this work – and you can do this with the
Mystical Traveler or Jesus Christ or the Buddha or your little daughter
or whoever – and that is to fill yourself up inside with them. You
think of them with so much love that if they were there, you would kiss
and love them straight to God. You fill up with so much, with their
essence, that you enter into it.
– John-Roger, from Walking with the Lord

Love can sometimes take you into some pretty divey places, under the
name of love. But if you really go under love, it will protect you.
Isn’t it nice to know that you don’t have to be afraid of one thing and
you’re still protected?

Sometimes when you are losing weight, you get to look at some things
that were put in you – “unloving” and maybe “afraid” are going to raise
their heads and go, “Hello there.” You need to be willing to look them
in the face, stare them down, and let them fall away.

– John-Roger, from “Another Look at Adoption, Adopting Yourself”

If you were free of your self judgment you could rest on the laurels of the Beloved who is you.
– John Morton

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.
– Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul

If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
-Max Gunther

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
– Herman Hesse

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
– Pete Seeger

A sage doesn’t reveal the Way, not because he keeps it secret, but
because it can’t be revealed. Hence his words are like footsteps that
leave no tracks.
– Ch’eng Chu

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes.
– Marcel Proust

See, that’s all you’re thinking about, is winning. You’re confirming
your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through
inner appreciation.
– Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
– John Wooden

Just as each flower has its own unique color – even though it
originates from only one light – each individual, although unique in
appearance, comes from one essence as well.
– Wayne Dyer, Everyday Wisdom