If we are to succeed at taking back authority over our lives, we must persist. After all, we have many years of wrong thinking and negative emotions to see through. As we become more familiar with the wrong powers that have been ruling our lives all along, we discover many disturbing things within. With these new discoveries, it may even feel sometimes as though we're getting worse, not better...
Do you think for a moment that God is ever disappointed with the moment that He has made? Your personal unhappiness is because you are disappointed with yourself. In reality, who you really are is not apart -- not separate from -- the moment that God has made. The moment and you are the same thing. Whenever you can catch anything in you that feels disappointment or discouragement, drop it ins...
No feeling of defeat has legs to stand on until it calls upon regret and discouragement to support its weight.
Disappointment, discouragement, and despair are nothing but the bitter fruit of an unfulfilled expectation allowed to live beyond its time.
The ache of any dark moment -- of any discouraging thought or feeling that wants to convince us we’ll never be free... is simply a lie. Ours is always and forever the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its pain, nor its attending sense of despair -- belongs to who we really are.
Blessed are those whose hearts -- though fully darkened with discouragement -- never lose their hope in God; for this hope is God's hope in them, and in this still small light is their hope fulfilled.
Any conversation you permit yourself to have with dark and discouraging thoughts guarantees you will wind up with a dozen good reasons for why you should feel so dark and discouraged!...
Want to know how free you really are? Good! You're about to be presented with a unique opportunity to learn all about your individual level of inner liberty. Assembled here for your self-study is a very special kind of test. But don't worry! You can't fail this examination. This test is unlike any you've ever taken before. It's designed to help you gaze into yourself and then use what you see...
Every sincere seeker experiences dark times on the Path. Loneliness, hopelessness, false certainty, discouragement -- when we're in the grip of these dark states the Light often seems far away. Don't despair! Once you learn the special technique described inside this power-packed eBooklet, you will find new energy and understanding to expose these unwelcome visitors and banish them for...
It isn't our mistakes that cause us to suffer over them as we do; what makes missteps so painful is our resistance to seeing that we make them.
Conscious persistence perfects those who will suffer through the work it takes to discover that discouragement is a lie. Only then is its deception seen for what it is: a lower level of consciousness that wants us to accept its mediocrity as the only possibility.