“I’ve also taken time out each day to review the day. This process comes from the Hindu tradition and is usually done at night. It involves reviewing the day’s events, in the mind’s eye, running backwards through the day from bedtime to dawn. Don’t ponder or comment too much on what happened – just watch. This exercise is a way of unraveling those experiences. It cuts down on the need for lots of trivial dreams, where the mind processes things that happened during the day.

It’s like moving backwards in time; it’s a discipline to do just as you fall asleep so that you notice your life. Life will not be just passing you by; you’re taking time to notice it. In reviewing the date’s events, it unclutters the mind and allows you to go to sleep in a very pure state of consciousness.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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“How many occasions have there been when you repeatedly asked for something? Doing so is like bugging the Universe with that common question from our children: “Are we there yet?” Having to ask if you are there yet implies to the Universe that you are not there yet! Further, I believe that most of us have determined that the Universe and God are either too busy to hear us or have trouble hearing! After all, isn’t that why we keep asking for the same thing over and over again? We believe we must ask continually to be sure we are heard, and that all of the details of our desire are made known. We believe that if we request our desire many times, that will demonstrate the strength of our passion to reach our goal. Yet, continually asking  produces the opposite effect!

The nuance is that by continually requesting and sending our desire to the Universe, we are really questioning why we are not there yet!”

Gary Spinell, in “Beyond Intent”

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“Paying your rent, taking good care of yourself, and being self-sufficient are as important to your spiritual growth as meditating. Growth for most of you comes from living life fully, not from avoiding life and going off to a cave to meditate all day. You are here to learn from each person, each situation, and every challenge you have. You are here to learn to be fully present and aware of what is happening around you, adding more clarity, harmony, and light to all you do.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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“Neale Donald Walsch: What is the difference between religion and spirituality?

God: One is an institution and the other is an experience. Religions are institutions built around a particular idea of how things are. When those ideas become hardened and set in stone, they are called dogmas and doctrines. They then become largely unchallengeable. Organized religions require you to believe in their teachings.

Spirituality does not require you to believe anything. Rather, it continually invites you to notice your experience. Your personal experience becomes your authority, rather than something that someone else has told you. If you had to belong to a particular religion to find God, it would mean that God has a particular way or means by which you are required to come to Him. Yet why would I require that?”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, in “The New Revelations”

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“Now some of you may think…“I don’t care how people see me.” Perhaps you don’t, but the history you carry with you like a bunch of tin cans on a wedding car are clanking behind you all day long. And until you liberated from the sense of self that was inherited by you, by culture, and family, and dictates of fashion or worth based on external support from others, you will never know your true name, “I am here, I am here, I am here.”

Paul Selig, in “The Book of Mastery”

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