spiritual-growth

For the being, maybe. But for the spirit, there are no quick sands.

The spirit, my love,is stronger than laughter,stronger than the hungry pantingof reckless lionsthat paw and shuffle underneath the canopy of bowed trees,stronger than the pace of a dying heart, that awaits to be pumped to life by episodes mothered by time,by hands of mankind,by slivers of hopehidden in the common mind.

Your greatest challenge is to not be distracted by that which happens in front of you, or is pulling on you or calling to you, but instead to find your center and magnetize to yourself all those things that are in alignment with your inner being

It wasn__ every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the better.

Those who listen with their hearts will begin to see patterns everywhere.

When Jesus put on flesh, He made human existence __acred._ Thus, when you are inhabited by Jesus through His Holy Spirit, your life takes on the __acred_ characteristic as well. This does not mean that you become God or incapable of sinning like Jesus was in His incarnation. However, it does mean that something is qualitatively different about you at the core.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. Many people will pray when they are required by cultural or social circumstances. Those with a genuinely lived relationship with God as Father, however, will inwardly want to pray and therefore will pray even though nothing on the outside is pressing them to do so. They pursue it even during times of spiritual dryness, when there is no social or experiential payoff.

Everything begins to feel right when we see the world in a different way."Living Beyond the Five Senses

Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child__ definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you__e ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you__e ever acted on before.

My will is free and connected to my Spirit. When I exercise my free will, I am calm, at peace and serene.

There are times I have Doubted. Times I have lost my way- without my anchor I would probably be lost still. Yet I know there is a purpose in all of this-even if after almost a millennium, I still do not know exactly how God works. But I do know that you need to work out this anger, find your anchor, and- unlike the unmerciful servant in the story- learn to forgive in order to be forgiven. Even if God is the one you need to forgive. Even if it is yourself

Transparency has existed ever since there has been a man and the sky above him. For the past ten thousand years every new day has offered a simple experience with its own spectacle; from a day sky into the sky at night; from oneself into the vast universe. Imagine creating the House of Tears where the heart can be educated in the ways of the sky; transcending itself. Transparency is its step, door and fireplace. Becoming one with it, is its windows.

HONESTLY ....I believe people are intimidated with truthful/ outspoken people. HONESTY..... will help you grow and it shows maturity.HONEST.....people will push you closer towards your destiny.

Be within your heart.See and feel with your heart.Recognize your heart within another.Speak words from the heart.Receive the words of another,within those precious chambers.

Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do

Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.