“If you regret the past, you overlook the gifts it has bestowed upon you. If you see yourself as a victim, you deny your role as a powerful creator. If you feel guilty and believe you should have done otherwise, you are being too hard on yourself.

If you knew better, you would have done otherwise. You did the best you could with what you knew at the time. If everyone had to be a perfect parent before they had children, no more children would be born. You learn to be a parent by having children, and you learn to be yourself by having experiences. Give yourself some credit for the strides you have made rather than ruing the ones you missed.”

Alan Cohen, in “Why Your Life Sucks…And What You Can Do About It

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“Who You Are is life. You are life itself! And what is life? It is a process. And what is that process? It is evolution. . . or what you would call change.

Everything in life changes! Everything!

Life is change. That is what Life is. When you put an end to change, you put an end to life. Yet that you cannot do. And so you create a living hell, trying to do something you cannot do, efforting and straining to remain unchanged, when Who You Are is change itself. You are that which changes.”

God, as spoken to Neale Donald Walsch, “Friendship with God”

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“You attract friends and loved ones whose soul development and lessons are similar to yours. There will be areas where your loved ones are more developed than you and areas where you are more advanced than they. You may increase your vibration to a level where you are not longer at the same point of development, and if this happens you will probably separate. In the meantime, as long as you are with people, view them as equals, even if they don’t do the things you think spirituality evolved people “ought” to do. When you feel superior or righteous, you contract your energy, close your heart, and lower your vibration.”

Sanaya Roman, in “Spiritual Growth”

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“What is really yours? The blessings you bring to yourself, through your spoken or silent word; the things you see with your inner eye. Only your doubts, fears and resentments keep your good from you. If you hate or resent a situation, you have fastened it to you, for your attract what you fear or dislike.

For example: someone has been unjust to you and you are filled with wrath and resentment. You cannot forgive that person. Time rolls on and another person does the same thing. It is because you have a picture of injustice engraved in your subconscious. History will repeat itself until you think you are cursed with misfortune and injustice. There is only one way to neutralize it. Be absolutely undisturbed by injustice and send good-will to all concerned.”

Florence Scovel Shinn, in “Power of the Spoken Word”

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“There’s nothing worse than going to one of those New Age conferences and watching all those people strut about. Grim. Absolutely grim. People have such a strange idea about spirituality. They think spirituality is holy-moly, clanking little bells, putting on vestments and robes.

Spirituality is the garbage man who believes in himself, the bag lady who knows who she is. She’s living an uncluttered life – she’s sleeping under the bridge in Central Park. That’s spirituality, where you become the simplicity of the raven flying overhead, the simplicity of the little animal in the forest – at one and at peace with all things, at one and at peace with yourself.”

Stuart Wilde, in “Infinite Self”

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