“When you find yourself thinking and behaving in negative or judgmental terms, remind yourself that this is an indication of where you are at the moment and where you are not; that here may be a signal that you are identifying in some way with the judged person. What bothers us most about others quite often is something we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves, or even something we need more of! Try to be more interested in what is causing you to feel judgmental than in what is ‘wrong’ with that other person.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “You’ll See It When You Believe It”

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“The “problems we have in life – if we want to call them that – are always a direct product of our thinking. When we feel stuck in the natural perspective it’s really just because we’re thinking too much and it hurts. As soon as that over-thinking stops, the stress will also stop. You’ll fall back into the spiritual perspective automatically. This switch from the natural focus to the spiritual focus is not complicated, not matter what some people may say. Here it is spelled out clearly:

Thinking too much = Feeling stressed
Not thinking  = Feeling good

Again, this might sound over-simplistic. It’s not. Want a solution to your problems? Don’t think. The difficult part can obviously be in actually doing this. Clearly, we’re not going to completely stop thinking, but the point is we’re capable of thinking much less rationally than we’re normally accustomed to. And it helps to know that all of our stress is simply caused by thinking too much, too rationally.

Without thoughts, there are no problems.”

Neville Goddard and Tim Grimes, in “Manifestation Through Relaxation”

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“Your happiness will never come from arranging and controlling your external world. It can only come from your willingness to know yourself fully, and to express joyfully and freely from this knowing. Escape the illusion that control of your environment is the only path to happiness. Reconnect to yourself. Develop compassion for yourself. People are only cruel to each other when they withhold love and compassion for themselves. As you improve your relationship with yourself, you will improve your relationships with everyone else. So, you give the people your life the greatest gift possible by engaging in this process of self-discovery.”

Sara Chetkin, in “The Healing Curve”

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“Spirituality implies any number of diverse drives to know, enrich, and express our inner life. While religion is our particular, potentially fixed system of beliefs (with all its special rites, language, membership, and worldview), spirituality is soft, unfixed, and potentially embarrassing. After all, how would you describe your spirit? What words do you use to speak about the ineffable core of your creative or virtuous self, you mystical feelings, or that subtle sense of sacredness that drives your quest for goodness, for meaning, or sacrifice for family?

Spirituality is an intelligence in its own right. Much like musical ability, which gives us an ear for melodies others may not hear, spiritual acuity lets us love, forgive, or see our next steps. Our journey from a fearful life to a bold, loving, and contributive one depends largely on spiritual talent. This invites our faith. Without connecting to our healthiest, positive inner drives, we cannot even conceive of the extent to which our own talents might fulfill us.”

Marsha Sinetar in “To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love”

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“The presence of the infinite is everywhere, but if you’re in darkness, you don’t see what is there. You don’t see it because you only see your own knowledge. You guide your creation through that dream, and when your knowledge can’t explain what is happening in your life, you feel threatened. What you know is what you want to know, and whatever threatens your knowledge makes you feel insecure. But the moment will come when you realize that knowledge is nothing but a description of a dream.

You are the unknowable. You are here just to be in this moment, in this dream. Being has nothing to do with knowledge. It’s not about understanding. You don’t need to understand. It’s not about learning. You are here to unlearn, and that’s it, until one day you realize you know nothing. You only know what you believe, what you learned, just to find out that it wasn’t the truth. Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.”

Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz, in “The Fifth Agreement”

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