Tapping Into The Powerful Resource of Effective Prayer
- Our life moment to moment is a ceaseless interaction with a matrix of divine and earthly energies that always respond in appropriate measure to whatever we as human beings put forth into that life.
- Prayer is for the betterment and perfection of ourselves, but it also serves unknowingly as the source of a punishment if we're not aware of ourselves.
- "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" refers to the fact that whatever you hold in your mind, you're going to experience and therefore be trapped in that consciousness that has produced the image.
- We are always in a prayer, because we are always in relationship with something that is bringing forth a life that is, in part, our creative responsibility.
- We think of prayer as a pathway to receive what we think we're missing, and pray for that which will complete us, instead of praying consciously to be in a relationship with the moment that is showing us that we are always being completed.
- There's no moment in which the revelation of what unfolds around us isn't simultaneously revealing some corresponding quality within us.
- Prayer is not about a time to come. Prayer is about being in real timelessness and understanding that I'm always experiencing my nature. We experience what we are.
- Every last thing that happens to me can be for the true benefit of the soul by revealing my false belief that who I am depends upon my environment and my condition and the things that befall me.
- Everything that comes to us is a kind of celestial relationship with the earth to cleanse us of attachments, dependencies, and things that we don't even know live in our consciousness but which serve as seeds of prayer.
- We can't keep anything; love keeps us. If we can keep love first and foremost, then we will be in a right relationship with a kind of ceaseless prayer and ceaseless process of revelation.
- We all know in our heart, even if not yet fully realized, that we belong to something greater than ourselves.
- The real prayer life starts with a wish that we can remain in a constant state of being open to the essential unity of the world.
- "Made in the image of God" means the whole of the divine ray of light, the whole of creation is already an aspect of my being. But something in my consciousness is closing it off, which leads to the process of negation versus affirmation.
- "Prayer in action" means that in any given moment, I am aware of the fact that life is being revealed to me through me, and that I am not separate from what is being revealed and realized as a result of it. It is a singular movement.
- We are here on this earth as a kind of bridge between heaven and earth.
- An epiphany is the recognition that the answer is already somewhere in my consciousness. In that moment, I come into the awareness of an order of myself that was already there, but it was in another time, another kingdom I just wasn't connected to.
- There is a greater intelligence that is always present. You just need to want to surrender yourself sufficiently enough so that you can begin to receive its messages.
- Peace is now or never.
- Pain does not prove that you know what's right. Pain proves you're asleep and have no idea what rightness is.
- Any moment I don't want is the same as an invitation to become aware of that consciousness that first defines itself by what it doesn't want, and then confines itself to the world of resistance.
- Don't allow thought to tell you how to get to a quiet place. The quiet is already there. You just have to remember that and release any identification with all the noise.
- We don't need to think, we need to wake up. We need to be present to whatever is coursing through us and simply let the light of that awareness bring into focus what is trying to pass itself off as intelligence. Awareness is order itself.
- Before we can do anything actionable in this world that would change it, our consciousness must change. It's not "I'm going to change your consciousness" but rather "I'm going to see where my consciousness is incomplete and creating the very conflict that I blame on you."
- You're not here to prove that you know what's right. You're here to discover that you're already in a relationship with righteousness itself.
