“The basic message of all the sacred scriptures is the same. What is different is how human beings have been interpreting them. There is nothing “wrong” with having different interpretations. What may not benefit you, however, is separating yourself over these differences, making each other wrong because of these differences, and killing each other as a result of these differences.

The point is there are MANY holy writings and sacred scriptures, and you act as if there is only ONE. It is YOUR sacred scripture that is REALLY sacred. All the rest are poor substitutes at best, and blasphemies at worst. Not only is there one Sacred Scripture, there is also only one way to INTERPRET that Scripture: your way.

This spiritual arrogance is what has caused you your greatest sorrow as a species. You have suffered more – and caused OTHER people to suffer more – over your ideas about God than over your ideas about anything else in the human experience. You have turned the source of the greatest joy into the source of your greatest pain.”

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

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“You have the choice to take on the witness posture in terms of how you view everything going on around you. This includes evens in your neighborhood as well as globally significant events. As the witness, you are refusing to identify with what you see taking place. You are instead being a detached, passive, but noticing observer. You are not the event, you that which is noticing it.

When you become the witness to events in the world around you, you remove your self-importance from what you are observing. You do not see it in terms of how it affects you. You simply notice. You are not attached to the rightness or wrongness of it. You have an inner knowing that, in some mysterious way, it is all in order. You are not questioning God in any of it. You simply notice.”

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, in “Your Sacred Self”

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“If I could boil down what I believe is the key to healing in relationships, it would be FORGIVENESS. As I see more and more how forgiveness works, it is clear to me that the power of forgiveness is far greater than any tool or weapon known to man. Forgiveness is letting go of ideas of sin, guilt, and evil.

When we forgive another, we free not only them, but ourselves as well. Anger, bitterness, and resentment take their toll on he or she who would hold on to such negation. When we let go of judgments and bitterness, we remove from our shoulders and hearts a heavy load of pain.”

Alan Cohen in, “The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”

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“We all have subconscious dynamics playing within us, and the fears and misconceptions that arise from these dynamics deeply affect our conscious state of mind. These thoughts and feelings are there for us to uncover, but it takes tremendous work to bring them to the surface for healing. That is, it takes tremendous work unless your mind is quiet enough, still enough, to recognize a sign when it is receiving one. Your subconscious is always sending you messages, clues to help you unravel the mystery of who you are; but we rarely recognize these signs through the cluttered distractions and compulsive behavior of modern society.

An important step in achieving a more intimate relationship with the self is allowing for more quiet time in your life. In other words, less TV/movies, fewer trips to the mail, fewer trips to the bar or club, more meditation, or at least, more time simply sitting quietly. For many of us, trying to pay attention to the communications coming from within is like trying to hear a whisper in the middle of a rock concert – not working! Do anything you can think of to help quiet your environment.”

Sara Chetkin, in “The Healing Curve”

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“When you look at your life in terms of success and failure, you must remember that these terms are relative and not absolute. The criteria you judge by are spurious, subjective, and based on limited perspective. If you judge success in terms of longevity, then death becomes the ultimate failure. This is a most pessimistic view of your journey down the Great Thoroughfare; it means you are born to fail.

If, on the other hand, you judge success in terms of monetary wealth or status, you too are destined for ultimate failure, as you will lose both money and status at the final crossing. If, however, you judge success in terms of the quality of time spent in full conscious awareness in present-moment reality (the eternal moment), which can also include material wealth and longevity as by-products, you lose nothing at the moment of death and achieve the ultimate success of achieving an unbroken, silken thread of consciousness as you make the grand crossing.”

Stephen Russell, in “Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the TAO”

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