Quotes
AFTERLIFE
TRANSITION
Your awareness and experience of God’s presence is not wholly unique, but it is important for you at this stage in your life. It is helping in your preparation for your next life.
April 15, 1985Life begins with God and earthly life ends with God.
July 7, 1985
There is no break between our two life-forms. One is a smooth continuation of the other.
October 24, 2005We wish it were not so that society considers spiritual life—or heaven or whatever you may wish to call it—as being something separate, something away from where you are. That has always been traditional, but totally unfounded, untrue.
September 9, 1985Being with those in transition and sharing in a loving manner, verbally and nonverbally, is the greatest blessing you are empowered to give to another.
March 3, 2003It is common that many who are preparing their own transition to our life cannot fully respond to the love, the presence, the prayers of others. But you should be fully accepting of the reality that what you give is indeed received.
March 3, 2003There is no instant between the conclusion of the human stage of existence and the spiritual level. Life absolutely continues. The consciousness does not cease and then begin again.
August 19, 1985You all make a transition from life to life. There is no death. When you move from one community to another, those in the first community are aware of your absence, those in the receiving community are aware of your presence, and you are aware of your own continuity.
March 11, 2004A life that may, according to some measurements, be brief has in effect freed the soul to reflect ever brighter. That soul may select another chance for human life in order to increase its ability to reflect, to emanate the warmth of unconditional love.
February 28, 2002Transition is a transition of energy. Love continues…love of individuals, love of all who exist in spirit.
February 21, 2005When a soul is ready to return to our plane, there is great strength, there is enormous love, there is a blinding radiance. It is a joyful, affirming moment, a moment never to be feared.
March 3, 2003When we make a transition from human life to spirit life, we bring with us only one element or experience or ability with us. That single characteristic is our capacity to love. That is all that we arrive with.
October 24, 2005So many beliefs describe the transition as the great divide. In truth, there is no distance. We are no further away nor separated from you than your thoughts are from you. We are around you, we are within you, above you, below you.
April 5, 2005The transition from human life to spiritual life is often very slow to understand and to accept, but the process is so quick and so natural and, yes, so joyous.
December 18, 1983Passing over to our side is a totally natural experience. There is nothing unusual. There is nothing frightening. There is nothing which should provide any of you with the slightest degree of anxiety.
February 12, 1984Transitions are not to be feared. We have spoken of the uncertainty which all experience, but all human beings are guided through the field of love that is God’s reality.
March 7, 2005When a soul joins us for the first time, there is often bewilderment. There is often confusion and sometimes fear, for the environment—what is seen, what is felt—is so much more intense than anything experienced in human life.
January 24, 2002A soul’s first experience on our plane is that of being totally, unconditionally loved.
December 11, 2003Every soul that joins our sphere, our plane of life, is surrounded by souls that are known.
December 11, 2003Every soul is surrounded by familiar souls. There is no sense of loss. There is no sense of abandonment. There is no sense of separation.
December 11, 2003If you wonder whether you will again meet the souls of family members who have joined us earlier, you can be assured that answer is yes. What you may have experienced within a family relationship as less than perfect will no longer be a part of that relationship. The relationship will be all-loving.
December 11, 2003In our plane souls recognize other souls easily. There is no distance because there is nothing physical that describes soul. It is a collection of lights that are at once individual and fully united as a single entity.
December 11. 2003When we first entered our spirit lives, we were surrounded by an intensely loving light.
October 24, 2005There is a greatly intensified awareness when a transition is made. It is as if you come out of a darkened room into a great light.
August 19, 1985For some, the transition to a brighter light is less difficult than for others. For those whose earthly lives have remained essentially in darkness, the contrast of suddenly being in such radiance requires time to adapt. We see this happening so often, yet all do adapt.
August 19, 1985For those who remain in a darkened state of spiritual awareness, the transition seems sudden, and some souls require considerable time to realize their newfound freedom. They often want to withdraw into the comfort of the dark. We let them, for it is they who must choose to remain in the brilliance and adapt. If they wish the comfort and familiarity of the darkness, that is their choice.
August 19, 1985A soul chooses to become a participant of human life, and it is the soul that is ultimately choosing the path of fulfillment that is referred to as this blessing of transition.
March 7, 2005All that your soul has as it reaches our sphere is a result of life prior to earthly life and the experiences imprinted through earthly existence.
March 14, 1982It is the lives that you lead now which furnish the potential for what lies ahead in eternity.
February 12, 1984When you no longer have need for your physical bodies and your lives become purely spiritual, you remain connected to your guides.
December 11, 2003We reach out to those spirit-forms who have joined us. We give comfort. We provide guidance. We give a sense of reality. We take whatever form has meaning to the soul who has arrived.
January 24, 2002You do not just have a guide when you live as human beings. All new arrivals are accompanied by the chief guide who was with them in their human existence.
July 22, 2008We were with you before your earthly existence, and we shall be with you in your next life. Although we may change, you will always have a guide.
April 15, 1985We minister to other spirits. We uplift and support and caress those who join us having experienced great pain and emotional turmoil.
December 11, 2008Some souls join our life-form with considerable confusion—not panic, as you would characterize it, but clearly a discomfort in the newness of their life.
October 8, 2007Just as a baby is aware of surroundings without necessarily an understanding, so it is that a soul who joins us initially is aware of all that is love, but the understanding must evolve.
March 14, 2006All souls who have crossed into a different form of life are being supported, are surrounded by love, are understanding of what it means to be loving, are aware of those they have known and loved, and are always present in the lives of those left behind.
May 15, 2006For individuals whose lives are not characterized as being compassionate, as being loving, for those lives that were primarily self-serving, souls who join us have difficulty in understanding the relevance of their new energy, their new life-form.
March 14, 2006LEVELS IN THE AFTERLIFE
You are aware of the choice you’ll make when you join us—whether to continue development toward God or to eschew such growth.
September 5, 1983It is on the preliminary plane that a soul looks ahead to what lies before rather than remains bound to the experiences of the life just completed.
July 24, 1979Some souls that join us find it difficult to comprehend what it means to be surrounded by the light that comes from nonjudgmental love. These spirits find it easier to maintain a connection with their past lives than to develop into what can be for their future lives, lives within the realm of pure spirit.
December 1, 2005When you end your earthly lives, your spirit enters a preliminary phase of spiritual life whose primary characteristic is one of adjustment to the new freedom that is experienced. This level of spiritual awareness takes on numerous roles of varying length, depending upon the degree of spiritual development at the time of entry.
July 24, 1979
In time, after proper development, the progress of the soul moves to levels of attention or concern which we call spheres.
August 24, 1979There are many levels or layers of spiritual depth on our side of the small divide, but these levels are unrelated to sophistication of knowledge or wisdom, and are more closely understood in terms of their differences of strength, of endurance.
October 8, 2007The Christian has no greater place in heaven than the heathen, despite what is preached. There is indeed no promised land, no chosen race, no single religious philosophy. They don’t exist.
April 29, 1985CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AFTERLIFE
Eternity is not an emptiness, a black nothingness with no sense of life. Eternity is filled with life energy. We are aware of each other as we are aware of you.
July 22, 2002On the spiritual plane, there is no exclusivity. There is no sense of being different from others. There is no sense of belonging to one group rather than another, for all souls are equal in value, and all souls view one another with the equality of total nonjudgmental love.
December 11, 2003Our worlds are very different. All that you experience which is negative has no place on our side. All that is affirming and that gives joy and comfort and a sense of well-being in your world is a part of our existence.
February 15, 2002Every spirit who joins our side is well and whole and healed. Every spirit who joins our side is aware of you. You are watched over, you are prayed for, you are cared for by the souls of individuals whom you have never met, for there is nothing that separates all of us from each of you.
April 8, 2004You retain your awareness of earthly life and you are more intensely aware of the eternal life. It is a beautiful experience and one which should be welcomed but not sought after.
February 12, 1984It is difficult for you to see your lives as extremely brief. It is only when you have completed your human experience that you can clearly observe the moment that was experienced.
May 18, 2004There is no end to a relationship between you and one you have loved who has joined our side.
April 5, 2005For those who are with us, you are more than a memory, for each of us sees your lights. Each of us knows what is in your hearts. Each of us experiences a permanent bond with you. For that reason you are never separated.
May 15, 2006Those who have joined us have no boundary that separates them from you. You are no longer able to see them in the way you saw them before, but that never changes the reality of their presence.
April 5, 2005All loving relationships are permanent.
May 15, 2006On Earth only humans are possessed of a soul, and yet, even on our side, there is all that is present in your form of life, all that is animate and inanimate.
September 25, 1982When a soul joins us, it is part of a continuous process of growth, of healing, a process of learning more about love, a process that leads some to teach as we teach. For others, the process is converting energy more purely into love—the energy of creation, the energy of light, the energy of humankind, the energy of the inanimate as well as the animate.
April 5, 2005When you are no longer experiencing human life, you are fully conscious, you are fully alive, you are fully aware of others, you are filled with great love, with great joy, and an overwhelming capability and desire to give, to nurture, to uphold, to lift up, to comfort, to love.
January 19, 2004
God is not some kind of dictator, benevolent or otherwise, who issues edicts by which you must live to receive God’s given award.
April 25, 1982There is no fear in the spiritual realm. There is only love.
April 17, 2006A soul does not sleep; it is not unconscious at any time.
March 11, 2004The depth of what we study, of what we learn, is far beyond your imagination, let alone comprehension.
April 15, 1985You are a part of a continuum as we have discussed: past life, present life, future life. That is part of this blessing, this grace from God—the fact that you always will be. There is no end. There’s only more growth, more insight, more vision, more understanding and thereby greater love.
April 29, 1985The ultimate goal is a full union with God that we all share in common.
August 19, 1985You can say with full certainty that your soul will ultimately be fully a part of God.
May 26, 2003
BELIEFS
VARIETY OF BELIEFS
There are many avenues to approaching God. One avenue is not necessarily better than another.
February 1, 1980Your understanding has validity in your lives, but there are many others whose understanding, although quite different, is equally valid.
July 19, 2006The world has seemingly unlimited perceptions of God and seemingly unlimited ideas of how best to draw close to God to get a better view. In a strange way each of those perceptions is accurate.
June 12, 1982Each of us, your guides and the guides of others, are vastly different from one another. Our perceptions of God differ both from each other and from your perceptions.
February 25, 1983There is no one religious sect that is centering in more accurately on the target of complete understanding of God.
February 25, 1983The religions of the world each have their perspective of God. There is not one which is more correct than another as long as the ultimate purpose is a greater understanding of God.
September 5, 1982It is not necessary that the God whom you seek must be described by all in the same way. There is no exclusive religion.
July 19, 2006
For countless years human beings have lived in fear of God, and that is not an invalid position if it leads to a life that reflects what they feel to be God’s loving objectives.
January 6, 2009The hub of a wheel is more easily recognized when spokes are present converging from many directions. If the wheel is solid, it is more difficult to identify its center. So it is with the religions of the world.
April 24, 1981Every path, and we emphasize every path, leads to God.
January 22, 2008
It is not important which soul reaches God first. It is important that all souls reach God.
September 14, 1979The pathways leading to God are many, and in the end, all will be united with God.
December 12, 1981No one has a preferred seat next to God.
March 27, 1981CORPORATE BELIEFS
All of humankind and all of the spirit world are one church.
May 25, 1980
The first forms of worship of humankind were motivated in many ways by the same impetus which draws you together now. You are, whether you wish to call it so or not, a little church.
November 2, 1979Those souls who reach out and join other souls in their quest for God will be surer of succeeding in their goals.
September 14, 1979Each of you has the capacity and the strength, if you choose, to serve as a model, to be one who gives strength to another’s quest.
April 24, 1981REVERED HUMANS
There are those among you in an earthly life who have a strong sense of the application of love and they are frequently considered divine, but do not set them apart as special or privileged, for you must remember that each of you is divine. It is only the application of that divinity which separates one from another.
August 31, 1980
No human being is more valuable than another, although the soul of one human being may be more spiritually advanced than the soul of another. The level of advancement of spirit does not indicate a difference in value.
November 10, 2005The place of Jesus is a reminder of your origin—your spiritual origins and your human origins. That reminder, that example of a love that is first and foremost vulnerable, is a lesson that is essential for all human beings to embrace. But Jesus was not the only figure to provide the guidance, to provide the light.
April 8, 2004When Jesus stated that what was done to him was also done to God, he did not mean that he was God when others were not.
March 27, 1981The resurrection as celebrated at Easter is not about a physical resurrection. It is a resurrection of the spirit.
April 9, 2007Being born again means being recommitted to a desire to understand more fully your place in God’s creation and God’s place in your creation. That is a pure birth, an immaculate birth, for it is a birth of spirit.
April 9, 2007SCRIPTURE
The Bible is one of many scriptural texts. Each such text contains within it great wisdom, but neither book nor text nor scroll of whatever spiritual leaning contains what is exclusively the only truth. There are, in fact, many truths.
August 12, 2008The Bible is not a collection of infallible, undeniable truths and nothing more. That document is the result of many interpreting their own spiritual reality.
March 14, 2006
In their ways all of the Bible books are true, but for each section the vision is limited. For that reason, the Bible must be taken in its completeness rather than approached from the viewpoint of which area is correct and which area is in error.
October 5, 1979It is a true statement that the Bible is divinely inspired, as it is true that our messages to you are divinely inspired, but those who receive messages do so according to their own capacities.
October 5, 1979Sacred texts as well as these communications, these messages, these communions are presented in the spirit of what it means to be an effective teacher, for we, your guides, are here to lead you through your own exploration.
August 12, 2008All documents that relate to a life that is loving and that acknowledge a form of energy that is total love are valid.
March 14, 2006UNCERTAINTIES IN BELIEFS
The religions of the world expend seemingly limitless energy sharing, promoting, proselytizing, threatening, cajoling others to perceive God in some definable manner, yet no one sees, no one knows.
July 9, 2009One cannot view any religious sect or philosophy as infallible.
April 24, 1981Any perception of God that leads towards exclusivity, power over others, domination, intolerance, is unworthy of the purpose for which you are given your soul.
August 1, 2006
You are asked in your spiritual journey not to believe blindly but to believe willfully and with thought, to believe through questioning.
April 9, 2007
God not only welcomes your questions, God plants them in your consciousness as a means of lifting those shades.
February 1, 1980
We are pleased with your uncertainties, for too many go through life so fully certain of their own beliefs that they place barriers in the way of their own growth as human beings, as souls, as part of the Spirit Center.
November 16, 2009
Your understanding of life is always temporary.
January 22, 2008
As your lives individually take on different character, your perceptions of God will be altered.
February 25, 1983No one knows all about God, and no one really knows nothing about God.
June 5, 2007
You will not fully know God until you are fully God.
July 9, 2009SHARING BELIEFS
Some human beings say they are comfortable in their faith, and what they often mean is they feel their faith is the correct faith.
December 10, 2009
You cannot confront another’s belief system from the perspective that you are correct and another is incorrect.
August 31, 2009
You cannot be critical of another’s viewpoint of God. Their viewpoint is not of their choosing. They merely experience it.
February 13, 1981
Matters of spirit are not settled in debate.
December 11, 2007Sharing where you are in your own journey is not a matter of changing another’s belief, but rather providing additional context for their beliefs.
February 11, 2008
If you seek to share your faith with another, it can only be shared through the demonstration of love.
February 13, 1981
Accept the fact that those who find fault with your beliefs and ideas are in fact responding to those beliefs and ideas, but not to you.
March 19, 1983
Being saved, according to whatever religion you interpret it, means an identification with God, by whatever name you wish to call the Spirit Center.
April 24, 1981
God does not intend that all perceive God to be the same entity with the same characteristics. God welcomes the variety, for in that variety taken collectively, one learns much more about the nature of God.
February 25, 1983
BODY/MIND
The mind is like a large door. If it can be opened, a tremendous light will enter.
August 31, 1980You can choose to think positively; you can choose to think negatively.
June 7, 2005On our side, thought is only positive. There are no negative concepts. There are no negative thoughts.
June 7, 2005We serve as an extension to your conscious awareness.
September 5, 1982Your conscience is a means by which you are connected to your guides. It is your conscience that helps to choose what to create through your thoughts.
June 7, 2005Your thoughts create your reality.
June 7, 2005All thoughts communicate.
May 24, 2010If you are concerned at any time in your lives that you are placing too much emphasis on the physical rather than spiritual life, that in itself is an indication of the need for change.
April 25, 1982You are made up of much space, but that space seeks its own equilibrium.
February 8, 2010You can learn to raise your body temperature and lower it. Each of you can learn to control many of your bodily functions, the mind is that powerful.
February 27, 1981When you face times of great trial, imagine in the greatest intensity possible the complete resolution to what creates concern.
June 16, 1984The ability to conceptualize results of God’s presence in your life is a force far greater than many of you realize.
June 16, 1984
COINCIDENCES
There are no coincidences. There are events that come together, but nothing is created in your lives that is purely spontaneous, that is purely by chance, that is purely random.
September 27, 2005There is no relationship that is merely by chance.
April 9, 2009When individual lives intersect, it is for a purpose. There are no chance intersections!
May 25, 2005There is no coincidence, there is no chance meeting, there is no occurrence between human beings that is without basis, without cause. Life is not totally predetermined, but you enter life with preconditions.
February 9, 2004It is always difficult to accept when some suffer, seemingly through the chance workings of nature, but it is important to understand that there is nothing in nature that is merely chance. Just as there are no real coincidences in your own lives, all is part of a pattern, a rhythm—all belongs to the dance of creation.
August 29, 2005
CONFLICT
World conflict eventually can be traced to individuals who are in conflict with themselves.
December 12, 1982Try in your lives to diminish your attention on the differences you observe between people.
September 25, 1982To say that you are God-loving but that you hate another is illogical.
March 27, 1981Hatred, in human terms, always comes from fear.
April 17, 2006Rejecting another is rejecting God.
May 22, 1981One soul cannot pull another down—there is simply no growth. The only movement of a soul is forward, toward God.
April 30, 1983No matter what an individual does to you, your growth is assured. No matter what you may do to another, your growth and the growth of another is equally assured.
May 18, 2004Since all that God has created has purpose and meaning, you must acknowledge also that all human beings have purpose and meaning, even those who would do you harm. There is a purpose to that life.
March 30, 2006You offer the gift of understanding to someone who is difficult to understand. That gift is never lost. You may not live your human lives long enough to see that gift acknowledged, but it is given with love and that positive energy is never lost.
April 19, 2004God does not ask that each always responds in a positive, visible manner to the needs of others. Your prayers on another’s behalf are often the most appropriate response.
January 21, 1984Human beings rarely say what they think. They merely reflect what their emotions are, and it is those emotions that are often the first expression of your conflict.
March 12, 2007When you disagree, it is important to recognize that the disagreement is not in principle but in perception.
January 21, 1984Conflict results from a difference in perception of reality. What do you affirm when you are in conflict? You affirm the validity of another’s perspective, not their action, but their perspective.
January 11, 2007If you pray for a war to stop, you are really praying for mutual understanding, for if hostilities are ended and there is no mutual understanding, they will resume.
June 16, 1984The differences which characterize warring parties are essentially differences in perspective.
November 12, 1983
You must govern your lives blind to whatever is different, blind to the need to transform all to be the same. Those differences must be embraced.
November 10, 2005When there is discord, resolution is not through the imposition of one’s perspective, but rather it is through an understanding of the other’s perspective.
July 9, 2009
Embrace your lives, embrace your challenges, embrace those with whom you agree, and embrace those with whom you are in opposition. But above all, embrace.
September 15, 2008
CONFLICTING VIEWPOINTS ON ISSUES
Making decisions affecting the future of the unborn must take into consideration both the welcoming entities and the unborn entity.
August 12, 2008It is simply incorrect to believe that one form of government which is appropriate in one nation is the only appropriate form of government for all nations.
November 12, 1983A philosophical construct may have great meaning for one society yet be irrelevant to another. There is no philosophical doctrine which is truly applicable to all societies.
November 12, 1983
DARKNESS/EVIL/NEGATIVITY
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ENERGIES
God does not create evil. God does not condone evil behavior. Note that we refer to behavior as evil. We do not refer to an evil soul, for no soul is evil.
April 21, 1984Within the most evil human being the soul resembles the creator.
December 12, 1981
The individual who acts with the greatest disregard for the largest number of people is still godly.
January 19, 2004We find it difficult so often to reach you when you are negative.
June 20, 1983Without those experiences that seem so negative in life, without those experiences which seem to impede the flow of God’s love through loving acts, there is no understanding of what love is.
August 31, 2006What is good comes directly from God. What is evil comes from the human experience.
June 22, 2005Negativity comes only from the physical, never the spiritual, although we on the spirit plane are aware of this negative presence even more than you.
February 17, 2010In the same way that love exists as an energy form, hate, greed, jealousy, anger, judgment also have their own energy fields.
June 22, 2005What are doubt and fear and despair but energy which focuses on self, energy which wishes to collapse in upon itself.
December 15, 2005The spirit world is full of positive and negative forces.
September 5, 1982There are many forces on our side which compete for dominance of the earthly plane.
July 13, 1979There is a negative power, a negative force, which exists along with the power of God.
July 13, 1979You may receive the teachings of God, but you can also receive the teachings of evil forces.
February 27, 1981
Your lives are in constant battle between good and evil, between positive and negative forces, between constructive response and destructive response. The choice is yours, but the choice is always there.
November 6, 1982
Negative energy is a vessel waiting to be filled, and its emptiness creates suffering. Its emptiness creates the tensions that you experience as evil.
October 8, 2007We know that evil exists, for it diminishes the brilliance of the light that we respond to, but it has no light of its own.
June 22, 2005Negativism or “darkness” is a state; it is not an intention. Light or spiritual strength is an intention that overcomes that state.
February 17, 2010There is no real darkness other than the darkness you create for yourselves.
June 21, 2007There is no evil force that exists outside what is created by human beings.
October 16, 2008You can think of negative forces, dark forces, as a kind of unpleasant aroma that ultimately dissipates. Part of our mission in our life is to assist with that dispersal by instructing each of you in ways that minimize the painful energy you create as human beings.
February 17, 2010PERSONIFICATION OF EVIL
There is no evil counterpart to God, no Satan, but life, all life is energy.
February 17, 2010There is no Prince of Darkness that is competing for your lives. There are only those who are presently unable or unwilling to acknowledge the light.
February 17, 2010There is no devil, as you may call it, that is out there somewhere encouraging, directing, giving energy and purpose to evil acts. It is not a separate entity in competition with God.
October 16, 2008RESOLUTION OF NEGATIVITY
When you experience what is negative in life, you must find a balance of something that is positive.
August 15, 2006
When there are negative thoughts, those negative thoughts are a kind of darkness that has influence through its presence, not through its energy. Its presence encourages the response of light.
June 7, 2010The darkness of spirit, of worry, of concern serves a purpose because it attracts light, and when that happens, the human experience of darkness is gradually alleviated.
June 7, 2010A single soul committed to what is good carries more impact than the efforts of thousands to deny that goodness. Positive energy is infinitely more powerful than negative.
October 8, 2007
When you gather in this group or when you seek to be open to your guides who are the lenses of God, you must always open yourselves through prayer. When you pray for God’s direction, there is no space in the spiritual channel for that which is negative.
December 1. 2005Experiencing evil and responding with your understanding of God is action of the Spirit made tangible through human life. That is your highest calling.
June 22, 2005
When you are critical, when you are angry, when you generate negative energy in the world by whatever means, you’re inhibiting, you’re slowing down the potential for balance. We are quick to say, however, that such negative energy never stops the achievement of balance, for balance will be met. It is the nature of the soul. It is the nature of God.
April 19, 2004Be willing to suspend all that you perceive to be negative, and allow yourself to stand upon the ridge and look out across the land and know that your destination is bathed in glorious light.
August 21, 2007
DEATH/GRIEF
Death of any kind is a freeing of the soul. It is a removal of the filter. That is one way that a soul learns to fly.
February 28 2002When individuals die to human life, their energy of good is released into the world. It is no longer contained within the body. As a result, the world does become a better place.
November 6, 2002Death, in a way, is a refining fire. It strips away what causes pain and suffering.
December 11, 2008Your life will end when your purpose is accomplished. The life of humankind will also be continued until its purpose is accomplished.
May 8, 1983Since there is no real death, there is no real birth. There is only a change of energy.
May 24, 2010Experiencing sadness, experiencing grief is possible because you have been given that capacity by God. You have been given those emotions because God understands those emotions.
September 12, 2005It is always painful to lose a family member in death, but when you recognize that all that has died is the physical appearance of that family member, and that what is permanent about that family member can still be experienced by you, the loss takes on a different perspective in your life.
April 23, 2002If you lose something which is not permanent and you grieve over it, clearly you are placing your values in an inappropriate container.
April 23, 2002You will grow in your grief, you will be strengthened in your grief, you will be given vision in your grief, you will be empowered in your capacity to love in your grief. Indeed, you are blessed in that grief. Do not wish that it were not so. Do not wish that all life was pure happiness.
September 24, 2001It would be helpful to your own spirit and to the spirit of those for whom you grieve if you encounter those losses as a freeing of what is eternal.
June 4, 2009For those who lose family and close friends through the process of transition to our stage of life, your response of missing is natural but you must also respond through thanksgiving—thanksgiving for the fact that that person’s life touched yours and thanksgiving that that person has been rewarded by an even richer life.
February 12, 1984Nothing is ever lost through what you refer to as death. That individual who you miss is in fact closer than when you were aware of that person with your normal senses. What has changed is the energy form of that other individual.
June 7, 2010What is shared with you comes from God and we are merely lenses for that light, but the lens itself becomes stronger and more sensitive and more able to reflect God’s wisdom as souls enter our life-form.
September 27, 2005
EARTH/UNIVERSE
The universe is a single entity.
October 10, 1981God permeates the totality of creation.
October 8, 1983There is universe that cannot be measured, that cannot be detected, that exists in forms of energy beyond any human understanding, and those forms of energy are as real as your own experiences and observations.
February 9, 2006You are all creatures of God, whether the fish in the tank or human beings in the seas of creation.
March 6, 2008
There are no accidents in creation. Everything that exists is meant to exist—everything that breathes life and all that is inanimate.
April 21, 1984The earth did not always exist; the earth will not always exist. There is nothing that maintains its state of energy, of form, permanently.
July 27, 2005All that has been created is important. There is no hierarchy. You cannot say that humankind is more important than a stone or a bush or a piece of wood.
July 27, 2005Human life is but one corner of creation, but all of creation is interrelated.
March 7, 2005If you are to accept God as the absolute creator, the beginning of everything, then you must accept all that has been created.
April 21, 1984All that you see in your world has been created by God for a purpose and therefore is valid and important.
April 21, 1984The storms that trace around the world transform the physical body of the world, but they also serve to transform the human qualities.
August 29, 2005Your bodies and live plants are dependent upon sunlight.
October 16, 2008
There is no species on earth that is more important than another. There is only interdependence.
January 22, 2007You must value all that has been created, for it is being transformed.
March 30, 2006It is difficult to see, it is nearly impossible to imagine, but the components that make up human life are absolutely no different than the components that make up the rest of what is on earth and in the planets, in the stars and beyond. All is created by God, and therefore all has the potential for becoming love because the energy of each entity experiences a slow but steady transformation.
January 26, 2006
ENERGY
The very communication that you experience in this group is a blending of energy.
May 10, 2010As we reflect God’s love to you, we also refract that love. We take the energy that is God’s and transform it into an energy that can be received, that can be a nourishing force, that can be an illumination.
May 10, 2010You cannot have a thought of any kind without an impact. Thoughts are energy. That energy is never wasted. It returns to you.
March 24, 2008
Thoughts are energies that radiate outward. “Positive thoughts” radiate positive energy. Negative energy exists with the same potential.
February 17, 2010Faith is a form of energy.
August 31, 1980We don’t see your physical being, for that is of absolute unimportance, but we do see your energy, your spiritual energy, and that energy says much about what you experience, what you fear, what gives you reason to rejoice.
August 26, 2008
Just as warm air expands, an energy force that is loving can only expand. It never contracts.
April 23, 2009Balance is essential to all that is created. Every molecule, every atom, every subatomic particle depends upon balance. It is the natural state of all that is created.
May 4, 2004
FAILURE/GUILT
You must see yourselves as seekers of God, not as one who fails objectives.
August 28, 1981You never really fail. What you define as failure is simply a set of circumstances that you are now provided with that are other than what you anticipated or hoped for.
March 24, 2008
Not being successful does not mean you failed. It simply means there is more to be done.
October 16, 2008
You as individuals may choose to do things which you later regret, but your spiritual growth does not retreat, for growth is growth. When you take one step forward, you have advanced and there is no step backward. There is motion and non-motion but that motion is always carried forward.
March 19, 1983Guilt is not a path to growth. Forgiveness is.
October 16, 2008
Guilt plays no part in the dealing with God. It is in fact a wall between your perception of God and God’s effort to give you comfort and strength.
June 13, 1980We have said there is no place for guilt in one’s own view of oneself. Stating that, it is our purpose that you acknowledge two facts: one, that guilt is important, and two, that the overcoming of that guilt is essential.
March 24, 2008Reject pride, for that only serves to slow the movement of your souls. Reject guilt, for you are not below any but stand on equal footing with all.
May 8, 1981All human beings are innocent.
July 13, 2005
FAITH
DEFINITIONS OF FAITH
Faith is not a firm belief in something never having been evidenced as real. Faith is an acknowledgment that what is real and good will ultimately prevail.
February 8, 2010Faith is not so much an affirmation that all is well, rather faith is an acknowledgment that God is and that you are, and thereby you are blessed.
April 22, 2010Faith is your response to God’s love. It is not a blind hope.
February 27, 1981Faith does not mean moving forward with your eyes closed. Faith implies moving forward with a sense of understanding. This understanding comes through patience and prayer.
May 16, 1980Faith is a function of the soul. Understanding is a function of the mind. The soul and the mind are vastly different, so do not confuse the actions of one with the territory of another.
April 10, 1981
Faith is an acknowledgment of the reality of peace, and an acknowledgment of your capacity to find peace when surrounded by all that you may fear, by all that creates anger, by all that creates anxiety.
January 28, 2010
APPLICATIONS OF FAITH
Life is the exercise of faith.
November 7, 1981You do not ask for a lack of opportunities to exercise faith. That would be similar to denying food in your lives, choosing merely to live but not to eat.
April 25, 1982Letting go means removing your own priorities. Letting God means inviting God to be your priority.
September 18, 2006Believe in your ability to distinguish which are your goals and which are God’s goals working through you.
September 18, 2006We have often urged you to believe and to live accordingly to the fact that you are where you ought to be, and you are evolving as you must evolve, and you are receiving the vision that is necessary at the time. You can have faith in the direction of your lives.
August 1, 2006A statement of faith would be: “I firmly believe that God is a part of this, and I want to know that presence.”
May 15, 2006Being faithful is listening to the presence of God. It is keeping your heart open to know the presence of God in all things.
May 15, 2006Seeing with the heart is knowledge through openness. It is not knowledge through reason or logic.
February 8, 2007
Faith implies the connecting force which joins a knowledge of God, from whatever perspective, to the feeling of the need to act.
November 7, 1981Faith is really exercised when you do not see God’s presence and must only believe that God’s presence is there.
April 10, 1981You achieve the conviction of a spirit presence in your life through experience, and it is when that conviction is tested that faith can flourish.
June 5, 2007Allow those moments when your faith is weak, and embrace those moments when your faith is strong.
September 13, 2007If you accept that God is always a part of everything, you eliminate fear, you eliminate anxiety.
May 15, 2006When you work to substitute faith for fear, you are giving your pattern in the tapestry of God’s creation its color, its vibrancy.
April 17, 2006
You must have faith that whatever is offered in goodness and love will add to goodness and love, just as whatever is offered in fear will add to fear.
June 22, 2009
There is no simpler truth, there is no more difficult goal to seek and to devote your lives to…faith and love, faithfulness and loving.
September 13, 2007
Be faithful every day. Begin your day full of faith.
September 13, 2007
FREE WILL
The gift of choice is a gift from God.
October 29, 2007We are given power by God, but you, dear souls, are given choice—choice to listen, choice not to listen, choice to listen and live through what you know, choice to listen and to ignore what you know.
October 24, 2005There is nothing in your lives that is predetermined. Were that the case, there would be no need for choice.
November 12, 1983There is only one predetermination that belongs to human life, and that is the guarantee of being a part of God.
March 11, 2004You cannot change what life is, but you can control your attitude toward it.
January 21, 1984You create the experiences that shape your growth in faith. You create the experiences; you do not create the events. You create how you experience what events occur in your lives.
June 22, 2009Choice is important, and for that reason you and we are kept from a full vision.
November 20, 1982You can choose to deny the reality of your soul. You can choose to deny the reality of God. If one makes those choices, one is given more opportunities to learn.
October 24, 2005
GOD
GOD IN ACTION
God continues to speak.
November 12, 2007
God communicates with all, even those who do not recognize God.
November 15, 1980
It was God’s intention, if you wish to humanize it, to create all that is.
February 9, 2006All that God creates is equal.
October 10, 1981God created the world. God created many worlds. God created many entities that are unknown on the sphere on which you live.
July 27, 2005God did not create for the purpose of idle amusement. God created so that what was created would continue to create.
August 29, 2005God determines what we can see and what you may know.
October 10, 1981God does not strike bargains with humanity.
November 20, 1982God loves because that is all God can do.
March 23, 2009The very nature of God is to create and transform.
November 16, 2009It is God that organizes, it is God that creates, it is God that transforms, it is God that forms an evolution of one energy into another.
February 9, 2006God directs all of creation in a kind of general way.
January 8, 2008There have been moments in each of your lives when God has stepped in, in a way of which you were not aware, but which was vital to your life at that moment. God has preserved your lives—yes, God has saved them.
January 9, 1981If it is God’s desire, God can always intervene. God can always alter the direction of events. You must therefore accept all that happens as being somehow within the framework of God’s ultimate control.
October 10, 1981All of you have reason to rejoice in your relationship with a loving God who is challenging, yet always forgiving, who is always present and yet waits to be called.
June 13, 1980God blesses each of you and illuminates your soul with radiance as a sun surrounds a plant in a field. Grow towards that radiance, receive it and give beauty to the world.
October 26, 1980THE NATURE OF GOD
God is present everywhere because God is not physical.
June 25, 1982There is nothing theoretical about God. God, love, spirit are as tangible in their manifestation as a flower.
June 9, 2004God is fully aware of the meaning of human life, for nothing is created, nothing occurs outside the Spiritual Knowledge that is God.
July 27, 2005God works a way into the fabric of life in such a manner that no one can completely block out or shade oneself from God’s light.
October 23, 1983God is not human. God does not experience anger. God does not experience hate. God does not experience the “dark side,” as you have wondered. There is nothing to God that is other than light and love.
August 15, 2006God does not tire, God does not need refreshment. Neither do we, your guides.
March 29, 2004God is not only a power but a feeling entity as well.
February 12, 2008What each of you senses is but a faint glimmer of a presence which is all-consuming, all-knowing, all-loving.
January 9, 1981The love of God is all-powerful, but it, too, grows. It, too, evolves. It, too, transforms because of the impact of the human experience.
March 30, 2006Without the love of each individual soul, the total love that is God would never expand.
December 15, 2005It is not God that expands, but rather what God has created that is good…that expands.
December 15, 2005You are dependent on God, but God is dependent on you.
August 28, 1981The God Center, the Spirit Center, is by definition aware of all.
September 12, 2005Nothing occurs beyond the view of God, but likewise not all that transpires is the action of God.
October 10, 1981God is the source of all knowledge, spiritual and temporal. When you suddenly gain insight into a matter of importance to you, it is not you who have generated that special knowledge. It is the result of your soul’s opening itself to an understanding far greater, tapping a resource.
February 27, 1981You are continually in the presence of that loving light and gentle hand that leads you across troubled waters to the other side, to a resolution of conflicts, and to a greater understanding of the purpose of your journey.
January 8, 2008INCLUSIVENESS OF GOD
God is. It is not that God was and is and will be. God simply is.
October 5, 2009
If you know that God Is, then you accept that All That Is is also God, for the God that we speak of is the God of all creation.
February 8, 2007
Respect everyone as being a part of God.
June 13, 1980
We are God as much as a drop of water in the ocean is the ocean. All that the ocean contains is found in the drop. All that is God is in each of you.
October 26, 1980
You are always as close to God as is possible. We who have completed our earthly existence are not closer to God than you. God is within you. God is also within us. It cannot be closer than that.
June 12, 1982
Everything you see, everything you experience with your senses, is a part of what God is.
September 29, 2008
God is a collection of all that is.
February 16, 2009God is the sum of all that is created. What is created and the Creator are a single unit.
May 24, 2010The God of whom we speak is not just a single entity. God is a collection, an accumulation, a joining together of all that is good, all that is loving.
May 15, 2006
All of you collectively are the body of God, and all are equally important.
November 20, 1981Without your souls, God’s power is diminished, for your souls collectively are a large part of God. It is the massive number of souls on earth and in spiritual planes which serves to provide God with the means of doing God’s will.
August 28, 1981
As you become more attuned to God’s will, God’s power on earth becomes greater. Each of you then has a direct influence on God’s power over all people.
February 1, 1980PERCEPTIONS OF GOD
It is difficult for you to perceive the truth of the statement that God is as you perceive God.
January 14, 1983
Whether you perceive God as the father, the mother, the brother, the sister, the neighbor is of relatively little importance. What is important is that however you perceive God, you perceive that same God in all that is around you.
August 13, 2009Observe God’s presence around you, and be committed in your acknowledgement that if God is everywhere, you have nothing to fear.
June 9, 2004When you perceive God, the first concept which comes to your mind is love, even more than power or light or forgiveness, for the power comes from love, the light is an evidence of love, and forgiveness is the exercise of love.
February 26, 1984When you seek God in your daily life and do not find, your inability is created as a result of your inflexibility. If you seek God in an illness, look at a flower. If you seek God in a forest burned to oblivion, see God in the love of another. If you fail to see God in a friendship, watch a sunrise, listen to music, enjoy a painting, read a poem. Find other ways that you can experience that magnificent and loving warmth that is God.
February 8, 2007A country or a leader who claims that God is on his or her side does not reflect an awareness that God is on all sides.
June 9, 2004
GUIDANCE
There is no compartment of your lives that is incapable of being guided.
August 17, 2005Whatever you do, whatever you think, whatever your beliefs are, whatever your reactions to life around you are, can be influenced and given meaning through guidance.
August 17, 2005Guidance, at times, is indeed knowing what to do, how to act, what to say, what to believe, but more importantly, true guidance results in the establishment of inner peace.
August 17, 2005Your conscience as you call it, God’s guidance as we call it, is most freely felt when you can separate yourselves from the temptations of self-service and self-need.
November 2, 1979Every human being is capable of being guided, but too many live with the barriers of fear, judgment, disbelief around them, and those barriers then repel what is within, what is beyond.
November 29, 2007The compelling nature of God’s voice in each of you is infinitely stronger than a hunch.
November 2, 1979The voice of guidance, God’s voice, directed through your guide, is always present.
September 21, 1980Your guides help you to hear God more clearly, but it is God who speaks.
September 5, 1982The guidance you receive is ordained by God, generated by God, blessed by God and sent on its way through us.
October 5, 1979When you ask for guidance, when you ask for direction in your own understanding or for the understanding of others, you must be fully open after prayer to what is given to you, and then consider that gift with prayer.
February 21, 2005Even if you have not prayed for guidance, you will be given guidance.
October 9, 2006When you feel an urge to communicate with us or to open yourselves to God, it is often we who are providing the impetus or desire for communication.
October 27, 1979
From our perspective with you, we know more about you than you know about yourselves, and it is for this reason that we are able to tell you certain things about your lives that you cannot necessarily believe or else you perceive that information to be fortune telling.
November 12, 1983Your choices are not so much between a good decision and a bad decision, but rather whether or not you choose to ask for the guidance.
November 12, 2007Channeling, as you call this, can be for the benefit of a higher good, or it can be merely self-directed.
February 21, 2005
GUIDES
Each traveler on its journey has a captain, has a guide, someone to help chart its way through the difficult seas and changing tides that are part of human life. We offer this guidance.
October 9, 2006ASSIGNMENTS OF GUIDES
Each of you has had guides since your birth.
May 15, 1982We who guide you are given the responsibility of directing one person.
December 14, 1979Each of you has a chief teacher or guide or guardian angel. It is not important what we are called. In our human lives, we have had many names.
May 25, 2005Even though we are not forever your individual guide, we are always with you and we always are in support of that spirit that has chosen to shepherd your lives through the human condition.
April 5, 2005We are assigned to each of you by God, but our response in communicating to you is one of letting go, of letting our energy flow freely to each one of you. That is how we reach you. It is done with unrestricted love and the desire for sharing.
May 29, 1982It is God who determines from what level your guides will be forthcoming.
July 24, 1979
Some of us become guardian angels for spirits on our side, for in addition to being surrounded by those who have loved you and those whom you have loved, spirits are also surrounded by guides. We have our guardian angels. Our guardian angels have their guardian angels. The life of spirit is a life of shared giving to one another, teaching, loving.
April 5, 2005There have been times when children have become the guides of parents or parents the guides of children.
February 26, 1984Each human being can be the recipient of the loving spiritual presence of more than a single soul. When you attend a school, you do not learn from only one teacher.
April 30, 2007
In the course of your life you may be given scores of guides; you may be given a handful. That is God’s decision.
December 14, 1979We, your guides, remain with you for long periods of time.
April 24, 1981We, your guides, are always with you.
April 30, 2007You are never alone. Even if you reject our presence, we are always with you.
August 21, 2007It is not by accident that we are given the opportunity to be your guide. We choose on the basis of your light, for your light is an energy and that energy pulsates, it resonates, and those of us who are connected resonate, pulsate sympathetically. We move, as it were, as one with you.
May 30, 2006
The light that we have is quite understandably brighter, more intense, more positive, more loving, more compassionate. And it is because of our light that we are able to light and affirm your spirit.
May 30, 2006Precious few human beings know of our presence.
September 27, 2007There are countless human beings who cannot accept our reality, who cannot accept that there is a loving life-form beyond what is perceived through the human senses, but that lack of perception has virtually no impact on our reality.
February 9, 2006We can educate your soul even when you are not aware of our presence. It is what we lovingly do.
March 30, 2006THE NATURE OF GUIDES
When you sense an angel is with you, you are sensing your guardian angel, your guide.
April 5, 2005Our existence is merely a step away from yours.
August 24, 1979There is no geographical description which accurately indicates our presence in your lives.
March 20, 1982As close to you as you can imagine another to be, we are still closer. Your space and ours are virtually the same.
June 22, 2005No spirit, no guide, exists in a self-contained location, just as you cannot say the light from the sun exists in an area fully contained, beyond which it cannot expand.
June 4, 2009It is not important that you know who we are or what we have been or what we shall become.
July 24, 1979It is not who we are but rather it is what is done for others that defines our growth spiritually.
May 30, 2006Your guides are not at the lowest level of spiritual development. We are not on the first sphere, but we have experienced the first sphere.
April 5, 2005We know your thoughts without their being expressed.
November 12, 1983We recognize all emotions that you have, for although those emotions are an immediate function of the human brain, they are given character, they are given an identity, they are given an energy, positive or negative, through the presence of the soul.
May 30, 2006We are concerned for matters of the spirit but also those of the body.
June 12, 1981There is, in fact, nothing about you that we do not know, for all that is to be known exists within the totality of God’s creation.
January 22, 2007The specific characteristics of your physical appearance are so unimportant to us that it is as if you existed as souls without bodies.
October 5, 1979As you have been blessed with the capacity to hear us with your inner ear, we have in turn been blessed to hear God through our inner ear.
October 5, 1979We do not see God, but we feel God’s presence as you feel God’s presence, with one difference: for us there is no doubt of God’s presence. It never enters our consciousness. For you, it is normal to have periods of doubt.
October 5, 1979We evolve as spirits just as you do.
May 30, 2006Our period of existence or stage of development is centered on learning. We are not all-knowing, but our souls are on fire with a faith in God, creating a tremendous light.
October 5, 1979We study the insight from spirits who have reached a higher level of development.
December 14, 1979The fact that we, your guides, are limited in our perception of God should not change or affect the value you place on the messages which are received, for it is God alone who determines each of your guides.
June 13, 1980As we transmit God’s wisdom, we absorb it. It is as important for us to absorb the teachings as it is for you to do so.
October 5, 1979Our lives were as your lives, and your lives will be as ours.
June 13, 1980All guides at some point or another have experienced human life. We could not serve as guides if we had little understanding of what it means from your perspective to be human.
November 20, 2006We are spiritual, but once were also human or human-like.
May 10, 2010We must experience other life-forms which do not exist on your own planetary level. There are many forms of life that contain the spirit. You, as human beings, are not the only element of creation endowed with spirit.
November 20, 2006When we are to move on to another plane of development, we take with us what we have learned in our association with you.
April 8, 1984We learn, we grow, we evolve, we transform through love, only love.
April 17, 2006When we are totally only love and not just loving, we are in fact God—not a part of God, but God.
August 17, 2005We do not have to see one another in a physical form to recognize each other. We are aware of another soul through the light which is reflective of God’s total presence.
May 8, 1981There are many activities for us, but our main form of communication is through thought.
October 5, 1979We don’t speak, but we communicate.
December 14, 1979FUNCTION OF GUIDES
We are God’s servants.
April 24, 1981Our activity of serving as your guides is an act of love and compassion.
September 27, 2005The primary function of your guides, each of us and the countless others that are assembled with us, is to guide you according to those needs that are permanent, are crucial, that are spiritual.
July 19, 2006Our sole purpose at this stage in our own spiritual development is to focus God’s brilliance upon you.
May 30, 2006It is easy to imagine that in some way we stand between you and God, but in reality we are like a window which transmits the sun’s rays to a room within.
July 7, 1979We are not intermediaries.
September 25, 1982When we speak to you, it is God who speaks, for we are transparent. We are the medium of the message. We are not the giver of that message, but we vibrate sympathetically with energy that vibrates as God.
February 8, 2007We, your guides, enable you to be open, clear receivers of guidance that comes from God. We do not initiate truth…we communicate the truth.
August 17, 2005We do not initiate what is shared with you. What we offer to you is a gift directly from the center of Spirit, from God.
June 15, 2006We receive God’s word as you receive God’s word. We merely help to focus it.
January 10, 1982We are, as it were, messengers, not the message. All therefore, are guided by God.
August 17, 2005Those spirits who serve as guides serve as a lens of God. The souls do not initiate the material.
October 8, 2007We are in effect a lens, a spiritual lens through which God’s light is focused.
October 5, 2009Our function for you is as a lens. Your function for others is also as a lens. Do not neglect the importance of each of these.
October 5, 1979Our purposes as guides are to serve as spiritual maps.
June 12, 1982We do not become teachers unless we are committed to the importance of knowledge. Those who do not recognize the value of knowledge are given other responsibilities by God.
August 24, 1979We, your guides, are actively protecting you.
May 15, 1982When we protect you, we protect you not from what may be threatening. We protect you in that we strengthen what is good in you.
December 11, 2008We do not wait for prayer in order to serve your spirit, for we serve, nurture, we strengthen regardless of your complete awareness or lack of it.
August 21, 2007At times in your lives you need God but do not ask. We recognize those moments and our prayers to God are for you.
June 12, 1981We pray for you. Yes, prayer for us is important too. We have a clearer understanding of God, but we first pray for you. Each of your guides prays for you.
December 12, 1981When you are in need and do not pray, we pray. We open your channel.
May 29, 1982When we pray for another, we are suddenly in the midst of that other’s soul.
January 10, 1982You should pray for your guides. Pray for us that our vision of God will be clearer and that we will be able to transmit God’s strength and light to you more clearly.
December 12, 1981There are guides who care for, nurture, communicate with other life-forms beyond your own awareness. There are many guides at many levels who serve to support all that has been created.
February 9, 2006The rock does not have a guide per se that communicates with the rock, for the rock does not have a human-like consciousness. But the rock does have a guide that serves to organize its energy and to slowly transform that energy.
February 9, 2006What we share is a view of God, and that view is offered to all who wish further understanding of their own lives within the creation of God.
June 22, 2009We are entrusted by God to clarify light to you, but while our vision may be clearer, we cannot impart to you all of our understanding for you would not understand yourselves. You would build a wall resisting the power of the ideas. Therefore, our function is one of gradually helping you to tolerate the brightness of God’s presence in your lives.
February 27, 1981All human beings have an ability to be receptive to the guidance of their particular spirit guides. No one is incapable of such guidance, in fact those who deny us, are still guided by us, for we guide by love—not by reward.
September 27, 2007RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GUIDES AND HUMANS
It is not unusual for young children to claim that they saw God or that they heard God. It is not uncommon that children are aware of their guides.
April 8, 2004Our relationship with you as your individual guide is a strong one. Each guide whom God has chosen loves you as you love God and as God loves you.
June 12, 1981You and we who have completed our earthly life are virtually one.
October 26, 1980Our attachment, our connection to you is actually a connection to your spirit. It is not a connection to the body.
May 30, 2006Your guides focus God’s light, and for you to be capable of receiving that light, it is necessary that your soul’s aura vibrate sympathetically with that of your guide. You do not have the capacity, however, to make great changes in the vibrations of your souls, but we, your guides, can alter our vibrations to match yours.
May 8, 1981We are the bridges that get you from joy through despair to a continuation of that joy of spirit.
August 21, 2007Allowing yourselves to be open facilitates our ability to provide energy for your growth and also for ours.
May 30, 2006Every individual has many guides, but there is one with whom you most often can communicate. The multiplicity of guides consists of the souls of all you have loved.
May 30, 2006All of us who are your guides collectively are in some way connected to you personally.
May 30, 2006Listen to the voice inside, for it is providing you with a view along the sides of your path, and is enriching, fulfilling, providing warmth and love to the spirit.
January 22, 2008When we choose to communicate with you, it is a choice made only in love. It is never a duty.
September 27, 2007You should never hesitate to ask us, to ask any spirit for help, whatever that help may be for you. We, your guides, indeed all spirits, are strengthened when our help is openly sought.
December 15, 2005
HEALING/WHOLENESS
The truth of human existence is that whatever happens, regardless of how it is viewed at the time, leads to healing and wholeness and ultimately to love.
March 6, 2008If you are concerned for your own health, we may reassure you that you will be healed, that you will achieve balance. That is a certainty. Does that mean that in a restoration of health all will be as you wish it to be? That cannot be predicted, for you are beings of choice and you can therefore choose what your expectations and anticipations may be. When you are reassured of healing, you are reassured of balance. This balance may be physical, it may be emotional, but it is always spiritual.
April 19, 2004When you pray for health, you pray for balance, you pray for a vision that brings comfort, that brings a confidence in the rightness of what follows.
April 19, 2004If you are balanced in your connection to God, you are in total health. All else is insignificant. You may be in pain and yet be healthy, for that pain no longer has the sense of permanence, for your vision is of the permanence of your relationship to God.
June 9, 2004Healing can best be defined or described as a clear vision of God in one’s life.
January 19, 2004Yes, it is God who heals, but God is always present to heal. It is the individual who chooses to be healed.
August 31, 1980
HUMAN BEINGS
EQUALITY AND INTERCONNECTEDNESS
There is no human being that is more richly blessed than another.
November 20, 2006There is no individual who generates a brilliance greater than another. There is no individual who is favored more than another. There is no individual who is more gifted than another. There is no individual who is more deserving or entitled than another.
August 17, 2005One must never compare oneself, one’s mode of living, to another and judge it as unworthy somehow, nor judge it as unfair. None of you is being cheated in life.
October 23, 1983Your lives are no different in their potential for reflecting God than those of great leaders of the past.
March 20, 1982Each person experiences all that another experiences.
December 12, 1981The value of your human life can only be measured in its progress through the growth and development and betterment of the human lives around you.
November 7, 1981Essentially, there is no difference between a saint and a criminal. The soul of the criminal is at a different point in its development than that of the saint, but is not less a soul.
April 21, 1984Can you readily see God’s presence in the man who shot the President?
April 10, 1981God created human beings and it is not God’s wish that human beings be destroyed. The energy that is a human being is not lost in the destruction…it is changed.
January 22, 2007You must respect the right of all who experience life to continue that life.
July 13, 2005Throw back desires for personal gains. God provides all that you really need for a full life. Resist the temptations for competing, to put another down, for making yourselves feel more worthy.
October 24, 1981You cannot condemn another’s viewpoint, and you cannot ever feel a sense of self-righteousness, for your progress through life can best be measured by the progress of others.
November 7, 1981You have all always been. You have all always been together. You will all always be together. There is no separation.
March 7, 2005Everything you do, everything you believe has an impact on all of creation.
August 29, 2005RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND GUIDES
Your lives cannot continue without a heartbeat. That heartbeat is your connection to God.
February 9, 2006You are a partner with God.
March 4, 1984Your experience of God’s presence goes through many changes as you progress through life.
September 5, 1982Just as you do not deserve God’s love, no one else deserves your love. God loves you because you are, and for the same reason you love others because they are.
March 30, 2010When you live alone, you very often become more aware of God’s presence than when you are with many people. You can feel God’s presence being alone, you can see God’s presence by being with others, and you can be God’s presence through your relationships with another.
June 25, 1982What is beyond the comprehension of humanity is that God is involved with every aspect of existence equally as much as God is with human life.
October 10, 1981If your priorities are centered on God, you cannot have shadows in your life.
October 24, 1981So often we speak of the need for being a witness to God by what you do. Such witness is faith put into action. It is not words.
September 18, 1981Live God, don’t merely talk God.
February 13, 1981You cannot lose, you cannot fail, you cannot fall behind, for we are always there to lift you in our loving arms and carry you forward to that wondrous loving God.
March 12, 2007UNIQUE QUALITIES
You are, during your earthly lives, a kind of embodiment of our reality on our plane of life.
May 10, 2010Human beings are basically good.
April 8, 2004The most natural response of an individual to another is compassion.
May 24, 2010Human beings are no more important than any other element of God’s creative work.
May 4, 2004Human beings, unlike other life-forms on earth, are the only elements of creation that are capable of collectively considering something beyond themselves.
March 12, 2007
Human energy is not the most advanced, the most sensitive, the most insightful of energy forms.
May 24, 2010You are not the only corner of creation that knows of its Creator.
May 18, 2004You are creation, you are created, and you are creators. Blessed indeed is this trinity.
March 6, 2008AWARENESS
Human life-form will become more aware of conscious life elsewhere when human life reaches a stage that is appropriate for such awareness. That can also be said of these other conscious life-forms.
January 26, 2006
If we, in our earthly form, had but an inkling of vision of the reality of spiritual guides and of the real and enduring power of God, our lives would have been much richer, more meaningful.
June 12, 1982If you were somehow able to physically see all that is described by us, your lives would be immediately transformed. Your priorities would be astonishingly clear, and your relationships with others would be harmonious in all ways.
June 12, 1982For humans it is patience and prayer which lead to perception, and it is perception coupled with faith which leads to action.
May 25, 1980
When you proceed through your human lives and are spiritually starved, your lives lack perception, and such a life ultimately loses meaning.
May 29, 1983Your responsibilities in human life are to seek ways of being loving. It is that straightforward.
September 21, 2009If you wish to measure the appropriateness of a response to a feeling that you have, ask first whether it is destructive.
February 12, 1982DIVINITY
There is absolute truth. That truth is: God Is; You Are God.
April 5, 2005All that God is, you are too. All that is in the ocean is in that drop.
May 22, 1981Yes, you are human beings, but you contain within something that is one hundred percent divine. You have something within you that is one hundred percent peace. There is something within that is one hundred percent love.
January 11, 2007
You are divine because you have been created, and you have been created because you are divine. This is the truth of All That Is.
September 29, 2008
You are evolving and becoming God, and you are God to the extent that you share something in common with God…your spiritual center.
May 30, 2006Recognize the God in everyone and be willing to accept your own divinity.
April 24, 1981Self-love really means the love of God within.
February 12, 2008You may or may not live godly lives, but you remain forever a part of God, just as a hand or a foot or an ear is a part of who you are.
September 29, 2008
You are all the hands of God, not because of what you do but because of who you are.
March 30, 2010It has been said that you are the hands of God, but you must remember that each finger on the hand has a different ability and a different function, a different purpose and a differing way of reacting to what it touches. The hand of God is only complete when each of you responds to the world honestly according to your own God-centered, faith-connected abilities. A hand which is all thumbs cannot be as effective.
November 7, 1981Whatever you do in the pursuit of balance, regardless of the type that is sought, is an act reflective of God.
May 4, 2004
LESSONS FOR LIVING
Spend less time making a difference and more time being the difference.
March 30, 2010
What you seek is reflected by what you do, not by what you say. If you seek an honest friendship, you must be willing to be an honest friend. If you seek compassion, be compassionate. If you seek support, be supporting. If you seek an environment where listening to others is critical, is crucial to your lives, then you must be good listeners.
September 15, 2008
Learning is achieved by listening, by being a part of what it is you fear, for in the process of learning more of what you fear to be wrong, you may find your own beliefs transformed and your sense of what is godly will be a new combination of part of what it was you feared and part of what it was that gave you strength.
August 31, 2009
You learned before you became human, but human life provided and continues to provide the context for what you learned prior to human life and what you continue to learn during human life.
April 5, 2005You’re given life to have faith. You are not given life to know all.
You’re given life for insight. You are not given life for perfect vision.
You’re given life to grow. You are not given life to be perfect.
You’re given life to learn to be loving. You are not given life to become love.
October 30, 2008
If you accomplish many things and have not loved, your life is vanity. If you accomplish little of a material nature and yet respond to the world with love, then your life achieves its purpose.
February 26, 1984It is not enough to know the truth. It is essential rather to be the truth.
August 13, 2009
Questions that you have concerning your life’s priorities are kinds of warnings from God which say in effect: take another look, examine where you are going, and with whom you are, and who you want to be.
March 19, 1983Your human lives receive strength from your spiritual lives, and your spiritual lives find progress as you continue through human expectations. The interaction is close and the balance is so essential for each of you.
March 19, 1983
You have no reason to fear that if your lives are going well, you are not learning. And there is no reason to fear that when your lives are filled with challenges, you are somehow failing.
March 12, 2007
No human being is a failure.
February 12, 1982Growth implies, growth requires change.
April 9, 2007
Accept and welcome moments of doubt, moments of unclear vision. Embrace those moments as important to your own growth.
April 9, 2007
When you find worry, seek joy. When you find anger, seek love.
February 16, 2009All create—all create good will or ill will. All create excitement or pessimism or a feeling of not caring.
April 6, 1983
JOY
It is the nature of the soul to rejoice.
December 14, 1979Real joy is not fully realized unless it is shared with another.
September 28, 1979
JUDGMENT
GOD DOES NOT JUDGE
Contrary to the teachings of many, there is not a definitive judgment which is made on the quality of your life experiences.
June 17, 2003God does not judge, God only gives.
June 13, 1980There can be no judgment in the presence of love.
September 5, 1983God is not judgmental, and yet God can be disapproving, just as you may be disapproving of another and yet nonjudgmental of another’s worth.
March 19, 1983For individuals whose lives have been characterized in great measure by the exercise of behavior that is not according to the natural energy of God, that individual is not judged to be unworthy, but rather is given another opportunity to learn.
June 17, 2003There is nothing that you can do or fail to do that will lead to being judged. This is an absolute truth.
December 10, 2009
There is judgment which takes place in your next life, but you are the judge.
November 15, 1980
If you truly believe in the nonjudgmental reality of God, then you can become comfortable in that reality, for there is no place for fear and guilt, no place for animosity, no place for competition.
December 10, 2009
HUMANS SHOULD NOT JUDGE EACH OTHER
You do not judge God, therefore you cannot judge another.
September 29, 2008You cannot judge another because there is no other. That person you see across the room is you. All that exists, All That Is, is a single entity with many transformations.
October 5, 2009
When you criticize another’s actions as an indication or a measure of the amount of goodness one has in comparison with your own sense of self-worth, you place yourself above God. To judge another is to judge God.
March 27, 1981Risk being open. Risk it in the faith that such openness is received and meant to be received without judgment of others.
September 5, 1983It is not wrong when steps are made to alter another’s behavior, if that is what is appropriate, but that is not what we mean by judgment.
September 18, 1981You can judge the manifestation of behavior, but you cannot judge the person. You can punish the behavior, but you cannot punish the person.
June 7, 2010Since all human beings belong to what God actually is, judging another is the same hypocrisy as judging God.
February 16, 2009
The human form of life provides the opportunity for the soul to learn what it needs to learn to become nonjudgmental. It means placing the soul in situations where being nonjudgmental is most difficult.
November 10, 2005You cannot learn to be nonjudgmental unless it is in an atmosphere that would normally encourage, and may even seem to require, judgment.
November 10, 2005Nonjudgmental love ignores what is negative and recognizes all that is positive.
December 11, 2008Capital punishment, as you refer to it, has no place in the purpose of God.
June 7, 2010
KARMA/REINCARNATION
Some souls require a training period involving more than one earthly life, but not all.
January 11, 1980There is life before human life which is equally rich and important, as well as life after human life.
October 24, 1982Before your human experience, you were Spirit. After your human experience, you are Spirit. Following that spiritual life, you may again experience human life and then return once more to spiritual life.
May 2, 2005When souls choose to return for the purpose of experiencing human life, there is an awareness of the potential that is a part of that human life. No life is fully determined or preordained, and yet every human life is provided with the same potential.
December 15, 2005Most souls experience human life more than once, but there are countless souls who entered the human life experience as highly developed, highly evolved spirits. For them, there is less need to once again experience human life. They are ready to continue on with their journey to the center of life, to the foundation of all life, to the center of love…God.
March 11, 2004It is not essential that you know of prior physical life—whether or not it is true for you, and if so, its nature—for the life that you are given at this time is to be perceived in the present with a perspective of the potential for growth.
October 24, 1982You may experience an unexpected feeling that it is almost as if you have known that person somehow in the past. The truth may be “you did.” The truth may be “it was in a prior human life and it is only now that your paths again intersect in meaningful and appropriate ways.”
October 9, 2006
The Indian concept of karma contains much truth, but not fully Truth. You are not punished by what you don’t learn. You are each simply given another chance and then another and yet still another until the learning has taken place. It is not a matter of working off what was bad, but rather living to learn what is good.
November 20, 2006Karma: It is not a punishment, it is not a paying back of some kind of moral debt. It is rather a blessing received to learn what must be learned.
August 1, 2006Ultimately every soul, every spirit is able to transform the human experience that it accompanies into a state of being loving, into a state that is a clear representation of its own lovingness. Individuals sometimes succeed quickly. Others take numerous incarnations.
August 15, 2006There are events in the human plane that cut short the human experience. Those events are not predetermined, and when a soul is not given the opportunity to learn what must be learned while connected so intimately to that human life, there is need for further experiences, further opportunities to learn.
November 20, 2006For young children whose human lives are but brief moments, the souls that accompany such brief lives are given more opportunities to learn and to grow.
May 25, 2005One may reach considerable age in human terms and yet not learn what needs to be learned, so that soul is given another life to grow through the experience of the human condition.
May 25, 2005Since all spirits belong to the same single Spirit Center, we cannot actually say that human beings have a different spirit in a previous life from that which accompanies them in the present life.
October 5, 2009
LIFE
This is a particularly important juncture in the progress of the human condition. Many are being drawn toward the truth that frees each of you toward a life of compassion and nonjudgmental love.
February 8, 2010If there is a secret to life, it is seeking your center.
May 18, 2004Life is not the pursuit of perfection but the search for a divine awareness.
May 8, 1983If you feel restrained in your attempt to achieve a goal that is important to you, taking a more distant view of your own life, you may realize that goal was, in itself, unimportant. As a result, the barrier to that goal has no meaning, and therefore is no longer a barrier.
May 18, 2004You are part of the goal you seek.
April 22, 2010Life is not about you. Life is about your soul. Life is about spreading the power of love.
November 20, 2006Your human lives and your spiritual lives are two parts of the same entity. You cannot separate your physical from your spiritual. What is physical impacts the spirit; what is spiritual impacts what is physical.
July 13, 2005In addition to providing your souls with an opportunity for growth, the purpose of your lives is to serve as a vehicle for transmitting God’s love to another.
February 13, 1981You are not victims of life, but creators of life.
January 9, 2006Human life can be seen as an effort to transform from imbalance to balance.
July 13, 2005The purpose of your human lives is to transform your vision of a life of challenge to a life of love.
May 11, 2009
Life is not about comfort.
Life is not about certainty.
Life is not about predictability.
Life is not about a certainty that all that is good is immediately evident.
Life is ultimately about transformation.
March 6, 2008Try to imagine looking from a distance at your lives. Do you see a direction, a character which is formed which provides purpose?
May 18, 2004No soul is actually given human life in order to teach another spirit. Each soul is given life to learn.
May 30, 2006You are not given life so that others may learn, but others may learn because of how you live.
August 31, 2006Your purpose in life as you engage with others is to be there. It is not for you to to change another.
May 30, 2006Life is, in fact, the application of God’s teachings directed by your soul. It is not only a challenge; it is the rich soil for the flowering of your spiritual lives.
June 12, 1981It is not essential that you control your life for the simple reason you cannot control your life. Only God controls your life.
June 4, 1984Living fearfully and governing fearfully is being controlled by defensiveness.
January 29, 2009
Temporal knowledge is only valuable when it is used in combination with spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge finds its fulfillment in its application to temporal matters. This is why you are given the blessings of life.
February 27, 1981There is a need in each of your lives for simplification. Too much occupies your daily activities.
March 4, 1984You sometimes wonder where major new discoveries in science or other disciplines come from. Your spirit center, your soul, is not responsible for your sudden insight into a new discipline. The source for much of that seemingly unexplainable insight is from another life-form. Some life-forms serve as kind of teachers.
November 30, 2006You live to be transformed.
You live not to prevail, but to change.
You live not to take, but to give.
You live not to absorb, but to reflect.
You live not to destroy, but to create.
You live not to hate, but to love.
You live not to be guided by fear, but directed by faith, by a belief, by a conviction, by a commitment.
April 17, 2006You live to become loving, and in the process of becoming loving, ultimately you become Love itself. It is at that point that you are in complete union with the Spirit Center, God.
June 4, 2009Each of you has opportunities that you refer to as peak experiences. They are a glimpse of what is really permanent in God’s creation.
November 30, 2006Know that your lives are like flowers that continue to open and expand, allowing the brilliant light and love of God to enter within, provide strength and beauty and meaning.
January 17, 2005
LIGHT
ORIGIN OF LIGHT
The universe as you’ve come to understand it had a beginning, but before that theoretical beginning, there was light. There was energy. There was an existence.
May 6, 2008
God’s light is a beam of energy which controls all matter, not just human life. It governs the heavens which are visible, and matter which is far beyond any human understanding.
October 10, 1981God’s light is everywhere. There may be trees with shade, but the sun is shining and the world is bathed in light, not shadow.
June 12, 1981
There are really no shadows created by God’s light, because the source is not from a single point.
April 8, 1984NATURE OF LIGHT
The light that is God’s light expands because there are conditions where such light is not recognized. That is the sole reason that light expands, that light is disseminated.
June 7, 2010It is the nature of light to overcome darkness spiritually.
February 17, 2010You shine a flashlight in the dark—the light does not disappear; the darkness does. The reality of God’s creation is centered upon this simple acknowledgment that light always overcomes darkness.
August 26, 2008
The soul’s light illuminates your view of your own life. The stronger the light of the soul, the more far-reaching the view.
January 9, 1981Your house may be shuttered, tightly closed. The sun continues to shine, and the time will come when those shutters are opened and the light comes pouring in.
December 11, 2007
Your opportunity in human life is to throw open the shutters and let the light come in.
May 30, 2006It is a way we have of identifying each of you, for each soul emits its own light because each soul has its own intensity of energy. You might compare the nature of your light with a fingerprint.
December 26, 1980
Our lives are lives of brilliant, beautiful light with colors far more intense, far more beautiful than anything you can experience in human terms.
October 24, 2005We learn to be more loving because we are surrounded by this light, and gradually the light that we emit as individuals, as identifiable entities, becomes consumed within the totality of that light that is around us, and we ultimately become the light itself that surrounds us, and there is no longer a separation.
October 24, 2005We recognize each other through our light. Until we become absolute Love, there are always differences in the light emitted from each soul. Once a soul becomes pure Love, the light is absolutely white. There is no distinction of any kind of one white light from another. All is unified.
May 30, 2006
You know something of energy being transmitted through light, communication being through light, but we are aware of a strength that you refer to as love being transmitted, communicated, by light.
October 24, 2005The greatest light that you can provide is one that allows another’s light to develop and expand on its own, so it can in turn illuminate the light and therefore the life of another.
August 26, 2008
Open your eyes to God’s light and allow that light to penetrate and radiate outward through your own beings, and in so doing, you will provide that context of what you know to become who you are.
June 22, 2009
The two responsibilities, sharing your light and seeking light, are essential to following a life directed according to God’s wishes.
September 28, 1979
You may choose at times not to be loving. In those moments, you are not a loving light, but you are nevertheless a light, a needing light. You become a light that attracts the lights of others.
October 24, 2005Grow with the light, go with the light, and you will become the light for others.
January 11, 2007
You are in the light. You are the light.
June 3, 2008REFLECTED LIGHT
You emit light as evidence in part of your spiritual consciousness, but you must also understand that you do not originate that light—you reflect it.
November 15, 1980This radiant energy which you lift upward to God receives its reflection from God through us. A mirror can reflect light through lenses in varying density and color. It is the result of your searching outward that God uses us as lenses to help focus the light into a pattern which is perceivable by you.
August 24, 1979All souls are like mirrors that reflect at many angles, that take light and spread it outward and create an illumination that provides light to and from all creation.
April 5, 2005The reflection that we see is a combination of what you receive and place around you and before you, and the light that comes from your own individual soul. It is the individuality of that light that we use to identify you.
May 19, 2008We help to illuminate your lives by focusing God’s light upon your souls, but we in turn are illuminated as you reflect God’s light.
June 16, 1984COMMUNICATION USING LIGHT
You have only recently become aware of the ability of light to transmit information, voices, numbers, and the like. The insight which brought about this scientific revelation came from God.
December 26, 1980The light that we speak of so often is actually a light of communication, not specifically a light as you think of it.
March 30, 2010When you receive these words of God, you receive them through light.
December 26, 1980Rejoice in your lives as you share in this dance of light!
October 24, 2005
LOVE
GOD IS LOVE
If God is love, how can God choose to love? It is an apparent dilemma with no logical explanation. The truth is that God’s commitment to love is so total that as a result God is love.
January 14, 1983God is love, yes, but perhaps more significantly, God is experienced through love.
January 14, 1983God gives you life, not so that God can grow, but so that love can expand.
December 15, 2005The greatest reflection of the divine in each of you is love.
August 31, 1980
THE NATURE OF LOVE
It is love that defines the power of God in the universe. It is love that we see as light.
October 10, 1981No loving action, no loving thought, no loving wish is ever orphaned.
December 11, 2007The absence of love is fear…it is not hate.
January 6, 2009When there is all love, no place for fear exists.
March 22, 2007The light of love is always brighter than the light of loving.
May 30, 2006Love must be exercised. It must be used. It is not unlike a muscle which when left unchallenged or unused becomes functionless.
February 26, 1984All that you do that is done in the name of love is permanent. All else is temporal.
February 21, 2005Love always prevails. Love always disarms hatred. Positive always disarms negative.
October 8, 2007The presence of love now is more powerful than in previous centuries, for more have experienced it.
February 26, 1984EVOLUTION OF LOVE
As souls are created and evolve to becoming all love, the power of love is expanded.
December 1, 2005You must learn what it means to be loved before you can become loving.
March 12, 2007It is God’s desire that eventually the need to be loved is elevated to a need to be loving.
December 12, 1981Loving nonjudgmentally is the single lesson that can only be learned in human form.
October 24, 2005To be unconditionally loving means that you fully acknowledge the part of God that is in each of you. It is in its nature an imperfect part of God.
November 10, 2005You’re asked to be loving, and in becoming continually loving, you ultimately arrive at being Love.
January 29, 2009Each of you will eventually become pure love. As pure love you encourage the presence and development of the loving state, and that state is the goal you all must achieve, either in this life or in another, or a series of many lives.
August 31, 2006There are in history a great many individuals whose lives are characterized as fully loving. The soul’s development for these individuals has become so refined and so complete that the individual becomes fully aware of the reality of the divine spark within.
August 15, 2006SELF-LOVE
Love one another, yes, but first of all love yourselves, for in loving yourself you will know the benefit of peace and insight and strength, and will draw from that well in your love of another.
May 5, 1984One who does not love oneself is incapable of fully loving another.
February 21, 2005Human nature is such that you cannot love another unless you can love yourself. You cannot love yourself unless you have been loved by others. The circle is unbroken.
January 29, 2009To love another, you must love yourself, but in loving yourself you abandon the importance of self and embrace the value of another. You become a part of another. And in your joining with another, in your joining with others, you become nonjudgmental.
November 10, 2005EXERCISE OF LOVE
You are loved for who you are, not for whom you are like.
June 21, 2007
Life is sacred. Love is even more so. You live to love; you don’t love in order to live.
October 29, 2007
You do not live to work and you do not work to live. You live to love.
May 29, 1983When you arise in the morning, say to yourself, “I choose to love today,” and then see how different your life becomes.
May 29, 1983Love all that you come in contact with.
Love all people. Respect and honor human life.
Love all of nature. Respect and honor nature.
Love what is inanimate as well as what breathes.
Love all forms of energy that are positive.
Love all forms of energy that you identify as the creation of God.
In so doing, you embrace all of God’s creation.
July 13, 2005Your lives will become far richer by the unselfish expression of unabated love to even one other.
March 20, 1982What does it mean then to dedicate a day to love? It means, above all else, being a listener.
May 29, 1983If you are so busy that you cannot take time to listen within or without, your life has no love to give.
May 29, 1983Love is not merely an acceptance of what is but a willingness to change, become flexible—in short, to become another.
January 14, 1983
Love may be central in importance, but it is forgiveness that allows love to flourish.
May 25, 2005When you recognize the divinity of another, you communicate love to that person.
March 27, 1981All that God has taught you through us focuses beyond all else on the exercise of love.
December 12, 1981
MESSAGES
Without prayer it is difficult, nearly impossible, for us to speak to you.
January 10, 1982Not all are given the ability to receive messages, and not all who have such ability exercise it.
December 12, 1982The value of these messages to you is not to give you a glimpse of the future, but an understanding of the present.
January 11, 1980These messages provide the map by which you negotiate your lives, but you must translate the markings in the map into action.
May 5, 1984These messages are not intended to be looked at once and put aside. They need further study.
November 6, 1982It is important for each of you who is the receiver of God’s guidance, either directly or through others, to take time to consciously study previous messages in search of the truths which are contained therein, for the wisdom expressed through statements and analogy are not understood lightly, but need study to be absorbed and to serve as a vehicle for true spiritual growth.
September 2, 1979You may see these communions, then, as a school of fire prevention, in that as you become more aware of the possibilities of coping with the environment (in other words, your own lives), you are thereby more effectively protected from damaging influences. It is for this reason that we suggest careful reading of past messages, for despite the specific differences in subject matter, the basic truths toward which you should all strive are constantly present.
September 2, 1979Some of God’s messages cover areas that are greatly foreign to your experience, but it is God’s will that we transmit such content to you. It is God who determines both the content and the timing.
May 22, 1981
The nature of many messages may at times seem repetitive, for they deal with the process of spiritual communion or contact explained in different ways by different guides.
October 27, 1979God chooses the proper time, the appropriate opportunity for presenting new truths for consideration.
November 6, 1982You must have faith in the fact that all you experience in this matter through these messages is valid for you and not assume it has either validity or meaning to another.
September 5, 1982Your expressed interest in finding ways to put together God’s teachings as received in this manner is both appropriate and possible.
January 30, 1982Your assembled group also seeks to share with others what you have been given, and that effort is fully justified and fully blessed.
September 27, 2007
There are those who would willingly discredit these words of God because of their inability to surmount the question of process.
October 9, 1980
It is the content of these messages which ultimately proves its own validity.
October 27, 1979The substance of these communions is in fact directly from God, focused onto your souls through our love.
September 18, 1981
You are getting the direct word of God in as direct and immediate a manner as is possible.
June 13, 1980
PEACE
Peace is a state of awareness; it is not a condition of complacency.
January 28, 2010You practice peace in order to achieve peace.
August 17, 2005When you pray for peace, you pray for wider vision.
January 30, 1982If you pray for peace assuming that means the complete cessation of war, it is an admirable goal, but it is not a goal that is reached in short time. Praying for peace is praying for that vision of what makes for peace, namely mutual respect, nonjudgmental love.
June 9, 2004Peace is moving sympathetically within the realm of all that is.
November 30, 2006God can always be seen in the efforts of others to achieve peace of all kinds. When you seek beauty in the relationships of people to one another, when you seek beauty in the experience of life, when you see individuals concerned about the resolution of misunderstanding, the alleviation of hatred, you are experiencing a glimpse of God.
February 9, 2004If you want peace, you must be challenged to choose love. You must be willing to work for it and with it and because of it.
January 14, 1983Yes, blessed are the peacemakers, but that is a peace, that is an inner peace with understanding, an inner peace illuminated through the love of others.
March 30, 2010
Peace on earth comes only through peace within. Peace within is only achieved when one recognizes the absolute unity of all spiritual creation.
September 25, 1982Make an effort to find time in your lives daily for settling back and being at peace.
October 8, 1983When you feel you are unable to find peace within your daily lives, the problem is not with God but with your priorities.
January 30, 1982If you can only stay tuned to God’s presence, then your response throughout life will be steady and sure, and a peace within will be strengthened to become a peace evident from without. Our function in your lives is to help foster, to help nurture that inner peace that it may grow and spread to dominate every corner of your lives.
January 21, 1984Peace is an acknowledgment of darkness and an affirmation of the indomitable strength of light.
January 28, 2010It is the peace in your lives which should generate your activity rather than activity limiting your opportunities for peace.
September 18, 1981The great spiritual difference between your life-form and ours is the presence of peace. You seek peace; we exercise peace in order to understand peace.
August 17, 2005The peace which is referred to only exists when you realize that that which causes your anguish or discomfort is not of ultimate importance.
February 12, 1982
PRAYER/MEDITATION
BE STILL AND LISTEN
Be still and you will know God.
September 18, 1981The mechanics of prayer are very simple: you simply listen.
June 22, 2005When one prays, it is more efficient, more effective to listen than it is to direct.
November 26, 2002God is not waiting to be asked. God is waiting to be heard.
November 26, 2002Your soul grows through your prayers, but your soul grows most profoundly in your silence. Allow for total silence in your life.
January 15, 2001God’s voice is not a powerful voice that is loud and dominating, but rather it is a voice that is heard most clearly by everyone in the greatest of stillness.
January 24, 2002Although God’s voice dominates all that has been created, it cannot be heard in the noise of conversation. It can only be heard in silence.
January 15, 2001There is a magnificent hugeness to silence. The vastness of that silence brings you face to face with God.
January 15, 2001It is through stillness that we hear the thunderous voice of God as a gentle breeze.
July 24, 1979When you seek silence and attempt to be open to God, you can allow yourselves the opportunity of being open to the union that exists between you and everything else.
June 13, 2001To achieve inner peace, you must learn to be quiet. You must learn to listen to yourselves and thereby hear God.
August 30, 1988It is for many the greatest of difficulties to quiet oneself and to allow oneself the luxury of listening to the sound of life, listening to the sound of love.
November 26, 2002By finding your place of peace, you are ready to receive all that God wishes.
January 29, 2001These communions, these opportunities for channeling, are really the transmission of prayerful energy from God through us to you.
July 11, 1988To achieve silence, you must withdraw from activity, but you can withdraw from activity while remaining present. It is a matter of consciousness. You are able to locate places of peace, quiet and tranquility regardless of your physical location. That silence then transmits spiritual realities to the soul.
January 29, 2001The result of the nurturing of silence is growth. It is an expanded capacity for loving. It is renewed compassion. It is a sense of balance—what is important in life, what is less important in life. The silence benefits both the physical and the spiritual.
January 29, 2001Being in prayer is a state of being. It is in being quiet, it is in the elimination of tension that you are in prayer. Being in prayer means being receptive to God.
June 20, 1983There are many opportunities to hear God, for God has not stopped speaking to human beings; rather, many human beings have stopped listening to God.
April 8, 2004In listening within, you know God and in listening without, you may see God.
May 29, 1983In seeing, one may believe, but in hearing, one acts. Your lives are ultimately given meaning, not by the limits of what you see but by the depth of what you hear.
March 11, 2004Your lives must be dedicated to love, and that love can only be given growth through listening.
Respond to a friend, and you are responding to God.
Respond to a stranger, and it is God whom you meet.
Respond to your inner impulses, and it is God whom you hear.
May 29, 1983Consider prayer to be more beneficial when you listen than when you keep asking.
May 22, 1981You can only become aware of God in your lives through listening.
May 22, 1981Every day you must find a moment when you can listen. You must find a moment of quiet. It does not have to be of great length, but in doing so, find that place in your awareness that is peaceful.
October 30, 2008To fully listen, human beings must somehow remove themselves from their daily concerns about self.
January 19, 2004Your souls need the human experience to grow, but you need the experience of silence in order to recognize that growth and to recognize the purpose toward which all living things grow.
January 15, 2001You may not have answers, but they shall be forthcoming from God if you can but keep a measure of stillness, for it is in such stillness that you can hear the quiet voice from within.
October 23, 1983If you close your eyes and open your souls, you will sense the brilliance that surrounds you.
July 2, 2001COMMUNING WITH GOD
Everyone can hear God. We emphasize can, for unfortunately, few people do hear.
May 23, 2001God speaks through your conscience, through nature, through others, through light, through peace. God speaks most clearly through prayer.
April 6, 1983
Our communication with you is through prayer. Your receptivity, whether in a group or as individuals, is only through prayer in the broadest sense of the word.
July 11, 1988If you seek one method of reaching God and find it difficult, try another.
December 12, 1982God speaks a language that is understandable by all. There is no interpreter that is necessary.
March 11, 2004If you don’t know what direction to follow, it is not because God is not speaking. It is because you do not allow yourselves to listen.
May 23, 2001God’s strength is always there, but it is given only when asked for.
June 13, 1980God speaks to you most strongly when you feel lost in some way, for what you hear is then the result of your seeking, of your listening.
January 19, 2004Turn to God in praise as well as in times of crisis.
July 13, 1979Until you search for God, we are powerless to step in. We guide you and protect you only though God’s name. You may cry out to God, or another may pray on your behalf, but with no reference to God, we cannot act, and so we watch and wait, ever ready to serve when God is sought.
September 21, 1980God does not simply pass out decisions to all who need help, whether asked for or not, for one of the powers belonging to human life is the ability to block out the beneficial help available from God. It is in the asking that you enable yourselves to be open.
December 18, 1983You ask God for comfort, for direction, for healing, for any number of things, but it is always important for you to acknowledge that God provides all of this for you, even when you do not request it. But by requesting it, you open your spiritual eyes to encounter God’s guidance for which you pray.
December 1, 2005We strongly recommend to each of you to seek time in your daily activities when you can quietly ask God, “Is this important? Is this essential?”
March 4, 1984There is nothing in your lives which is insignificant to God. Be it interpersonal relationships, help, career, money, emotions, whatever your concern, it is always appropriate to share with God.
December 18, 1983When you pray to God, you pray for nourishment, nourishment of your life or of the life of another.
April 25, 1982PRAYER
Prayer is the food of the spirit. It is the nourishment of the soul.
December 15, 1989There is no influence in life more powerful than prayer.
December 21, 1986Each of you has a great power, greater than you think, for you have the power to open others, you have the power to open yourselves to God’s presence. But you also have the power to prevent yourselves and others from being open through negative thoughts. It is an awesome power beyond armies, governments.
August 21, 2001Prayer is the most important means by which you receive the light of God. Continue to use it. Continue to believe in its strength and influence.
April 6, 1983Prayer is very concrete. There is nothing theoretical about it. It has direction, it has purpose, it has results, and those results are concrete.
October 4, 1986Prayer must be experienced to be believed.
October 4, 1986All questions, all concerns, all troubles, all worries belong before God.
March 11, 2004Prayer is, quite simply, your personal acknowledgment of God.
June 3, 2008
Prayer is the strongest union between souls.
September 14, 1979Prayer is the greatest opportunity you have for exercising love in life.
June 20, 1983There is no need to pray that God may somehow come to you as if God were away. You need only pray that God’s influence will be in your life and you can be assured of that influence.
June 4, 1984You can never be pushed into a corner of irrelevance when you are centered through prayer.
October 15, 2001Part of your own spiritual development—strengthening, if you will—is your capacity to create in your thought that for which you pray.
June 7, 2005In your thoughts, as you conceive of a life for which you pray, you are creating that environment, you are preparing the garden for God’s loving nourishment.
June 7, 2005Prayers open you or others for whom you pray to a recognition of the response that is always present.
June 22, 2005If you pray on behalf of another, you benefit another and in turn are also benefited. If you pray for yourself, you will receive benefit which may in turn enable you to enhance the life of another. Prayer is a kind of circle. It never exists functioning in a single direction. It emanates in all directions.
July 11, 1988Prayer is not like a laser beam in its restrictive sense. The prayer which is offered for whomever’s benefit will be supportive of the souls of all present.
July 11, 1988Both the prayer itself (as a way of opening a channel) and your thoughts (providing the reality for the prayer) together are an enormously powerful force.
June 7, 2005Your thoughts are the means by which you create the reality that brings your prayers to fulfillment.
June 7, 2005When you are in need and do not pray, we pray. We open your channel. We search for ways to allow God’s light to shine through.
February 25, 1983Perhaps it seems strange to think of our praying when we already exist in a purely spiritual form, but prayer is the great strength, it is the unifier that crosses the boundaries between human life and spiritual life.
December 13, 2001When we experienced human life, we thought of prayer as being a request of God for something—health, comfort, patience, compassion. We felt that brought us closer to God. But here we are, next to God, yet we pray.
December 13, 2001What you are doing when you pray is actually praying to be open and receptive to what is already there.
April 9, 2009When you pray, do not feel that you are in some way activating God. You are only allowing God to come through.
November 20, 1981It is important to pray for the ability to transcend problems not only when the problems arise but before they are known. In so doing, the spirit acquires a kind of armor or shield of protection and additional strength.
July 7, 1979If you wonder how best to respond to events in your life, praying for the knowledge to make a decision allows you to make that decision with the confidence that what you do is what you must do.
October 30, 2006When you pray for health, you pray for balance.
April 9, 2009
When you pray for health, you pray for an inner sense of peace, a lack of anxiety, a commitment to the connection you have with God.
June 9, 2004Praying for peace, praying for what you believe in is really an opening of your spiritual vision to what accompanies you on your path, and it is that vision and your response to that vision that helps bring about what it is you seek.
February 11, 2008
When you pray for peace, you are really praying for dignity. When you pray for peace, you are praying for a loving understanding of the value of others. With such a loving understanding, there is no reason for war, as you may define it.
August 20, 2002One doesn’t merely pray for peace in the abstract. One prays for those who are empowered to bring about conditions leading to peace.
February 11, 2008
We grow when you pray. Our lights are brighter because your prayers send out a great illumination. We mirror that warmth, we mirror that light back to you and back to countless others.
April 5, 2005Your own soul grows when your neighbor prays for his or her own soul.
June 30, 2008When you do pray, you are more receptive. That is the relationship between prayer and God’s action.
June 20, 1986Prayer does not activate God’s presence. It merely sensitizes those who pray and those for whom prayer is offered.
January 14, 2010Give thanks to God for life and for all that life brings you—all that is easy, all that is difficult, all that brings joy, all that brings anxiety, frustration, anger. Grow in your ability to overcome those negatives, and realize that those negatives are necessary for that growth to take place.
June 9, 2004You all seek a smoother life, not an easier life but a life that you can accommodate, that you can accept. If it is a life of difficulty, so be it. You pray for the ability to accept those difficulties, not to have no difficulties.
April 29, 1985As you mature, the goal of what you pray for becomes less immediate, and the subject of those prayers becomes significantly deeper.
October 4, 1986We are not here for you to pray to us. You pray to God, and we pray for you. It is we who do the serving, and you who receive.
October 9, 1980We use prayer to communicate with one another, to hear God and to reach you.
June 20, 1983By praying first and then being open to whatever Light that shines upon your spirit, you allow yourselves to be fully open to your own guides.
January 6, 2009With prayer, feelings of anger are transformed into compassion and love. The process is a long one. There are no time restrictions.
September 24, 2001Prayer is love.
May 2, 2005The ultimate form of prayer is Being, Being with a capital B. It means existing wholly, existing as a complete entity. When you live your lives acknowledging the wholeness of life, you are living prayerfully.
December 13,2001A life of affirmation is a life of prayer. It is a life reflecting God. There is nothing about God that is negative.
December 13, 2001Prayer, prayerful presence, even a presence surrounded by silence is a profound gift, a profound blessing for all.
March 3, 2003WHEN AND HOW TO PRAY
Prayer which is done appropriately means prayer in which you can recognize God’s response. It has nothing to do with the words you use or their order or syntax.
May 8, 1983Prayers need not be verbalized. For many it is a great help because it focuses conscious thoughts toward the compassionate embrace of others. To the extent that that can be accomplished through the suggestion of culturally agreed upon conventions of prayer, so be it. It is all right. But you must realize that it certainly is unnecessary.
June 30, 1988Prayer does not consist of an introduction, a main body, and a specific closing. Prayer need not be verbalized, nor is it necessary to be conceived of in words that are thought. Prayer is an energy, a force, emanating from your spiritual being, often activated by conscious thought, but also given direction unconsciously. The energy which is prayer can be considered to be a state of being, an attitude. When you respond compassionately to another, selflessly and with no ulterior motives other than the benefit of another, that is prayer, for it is energy translated into a loving act.
June 30, 1988Prayers do not have to end with set phrases, regardless of religious practice or teaching.
June 22, 2005Turn to God daily and ask for insight. Ask for peace. Pray for our ability to focus God’s power on your souls. Pray for God’s healing hand to be laid upon all those who need God’s comfort.
September 22, 1985God’s peace is with you at all times, but it only becomes yours with the asking.
December 8, 1985If you are worried about yourself, pray for peace. The worry will dissipate. If you worry about yourself and do not pray, the worry controls everything.
July 11, 1988It makes no difference whether you pray specifically for peace or to be healed. It makes no difference whether or not you are aware of the need for peace when you pray for healing. In the final analysis your prayer is really an outcry for peace.
July 11, 1988To achieve an inner peace, you must be emotionally at peace, providing an environment for the peace which comes from a physical balance. The interrelationship between the mind and the body is inseparable. One cannot pray for physical health while being torn apart emotionally. Balance in both spheres must be achieved in order to attain balance of the whole.
August 30, 1988When you pray for God to be a part of your life, you are asking that your life be a part of God, for it is your life that can be altered, not God’s presence.
December 22, 1985You do not pray for blessings; you pray to be aware of the blessings you have. You do not pray for your own health; you pray to be aware of the health that you have.
December 13, 2001Acknowledge deeply and personally that you are blessed. Don’t occupy yourself with efforts to identify each and every blessing. It is fully sufficient to know that you are blessed.
November 26, 2002Your prayers can be a celebration. When you are in pain, celebrate that which is not in pain. When you are ill, celebrate that which is healthy. When you are sad, celebrate that part of your life that brings joy. When you are alone, celebrate what brings you to others. That is what prayer does. That gives balance to life.
December 13, 2001Bring prayer into your lives as an affirmation. It will speak louder than words. Such affirmation moves mountains, touches the soul, and leads to a greater awareness of God’s presence.
December 13, 2001When you are faced with tests—tests of your faith, emotional/physical stamina—return to the well, pause and reflect. Be willing to be open to God’s light being focused by many guides upon your lives.
April 15, 1988For any issue that concerns you, the first approach is prayer, not that the issue will go away but that your response will be the right one.
June 1, 1986When one is sick one should not pray that the illness will just vanish. One should pray that one approaches the illness in the right way.
June 1, 1986Seek out those with whom you differ and find a way to love them. Seek out those who cause irritation or remorse, bitterness, anxiety, jealousy, and through prayer feel a union with their souls. That is the first step toward peace. It is a difficult first step, but absolutely essential.
June 1, 1986When you listen to another, do so with prayer—prayer for the one you listen to, but also prayer for your own openness that welcomes God’s strength, God’s guiding light and supportive warmth.
October 15, 2001You must pray for creation.
August 3, 1988It is good to give thanks to God, not because God asks for it, but because it is kind of a reminder to you that you recognize what God has given.
December 22, 1985Seek ways of offering selfless prayer, selfless imaging, a selfless surrounding of another. The ability to exercise such prayer is greatly enhanced when you are at peace within.
October 4, 1986When you pray for another, you are indeed helping that person in a means far greater than anything else you could do.
December 21, 1986Prayer is the only way that one can give peace to another.
June 13, 1988The best that you can pray on behalf of another is for their peace.
June 13, 1988Your prayers for those who make decisions affecting peace, as you define it, are helpful. They do make a difference. They are necessary.
August 20, 2002God is not a relay station for prayer. God is a facilitator for strength. Consider rather your prayers to be directed in a straight line through God to another.
January 10, 1982When you pray on behalf of another, you are not actually asking God to intervene as if God were standing on the side waiting for an invitation. You are really praying that another may be open or that you may be open to the help, to the healing, to the strengthening that is already present.
August 21, 2001God’s function, in a sense, is a lens for your prayers on behalf of another.
January 10, 1982Your prayers on behalf of others unite your souls with others.
September 14, 1979Selfless prayer is the greatest gift one can give to another, for in it are all the ingredients of what you call love.
July 13, 1979When we say surround one with prayers, think of it as surrounding one with love offered with the faith that God has answered your prayers.
May 22, 1981It is possible to utilize the energy of prayer with no knowledge of God. Individuals may not have thought about God and yet respond to another compassionately, respond to another with care and concern and gentleness, with love. Whether those individuals recognize God or not does not in any way effect the reality of their prayer in the broadest sense.
June 30, 1988Prayer is of the highest importance in reaching out to help another in agony, but prayer should not merely be for an immediate cessation of suffering but for the capacity for growth out of the experience.
May 16, 1980You pray for others who are suffering and who need God’s special care, but so often your concerns are then put behind you, assuming that somehow it is in God’s hands. In truth it remains in your hands.
October 23, 1983When you pray on behalf of another who suffers from a particular ailment, more important than just praying that the ailment disappear is the need for praying for emotional strength, because it is that strength which helps place the suffering in perspective and provides an environment suitable for physical recovery, if that is what is ultimately best.
August 30, 1988As you pray for the healing of another emotionally, physically, you are really praying for the openness of another to healing, the nature of that healing taking many different forms. One can be healed in the spirit and yet lose the body.
August 21, 2001When you pray for another, pray that God’s strength can be permitted to enfold the life of another.
May 8, 1983If you pray to be instrumental in helping another, you are instrumental in helping another.
December 11, 2007How you envision another has a direct bearing on the condition of that individual.
June 7, 2005When you pray for God to heal another, you are actually praying for God’s healing power to reach another.
November 20, 1981When you pray for peace to surround another, be willing to accept that such peace may come in a form not readily recognizable by you.
October 4, 1986Prayer appears to us as light. It is a spiritual, not a physical, light and yet it has characteristics similar to physical light, for there are colors more radiant than any you have experienced. The brilliance carries a warmth and transmits a love which you can only think about but never experience in your own life-form. Therefore, when you pray for another, you provide light for another, and that light emits warmth and love, that light illuminates the surroundings of the soul.
November 5, 1989When you pray for another, your light becomes stronger and it will reach the one for whom you pray.
December 26, 1980When you pray for your neighbor, your aura finds the neighbor, and the neighbor’s own light is enhanced by the energy that you have sent forth.
May 19, 2008Prayer is energy which is emitted with light. When you pray to God on behalf of another, you emit light. It is seen by us as light. It is a form of energy analogous to the energy of visible light. That energy, that light, radiates outward with great intensity. Light carries with it warmth. Warmth can increase the intensity of light and it is also a manifestation of light. When you pray for another, the soul of that other person is warmed by your light, and in turn radiates a stronger light.
June 30, 1988In addition to being open yourselves, each of you has the power to open the channel of others, to clear away the debris, the fog, the murky light. That is another aspect of prayer.
November 20, 1981When you pray for another, the soul of that individual is very visible to us, for as you pray, the soul strengthens its radiance, and we see that.
July 22, 2008When you pray for an individual, the prayer effect moves in two directions: toward the one for whom the prayer is offered and toward the one from whom the prayer is offered.
March 3, 2003If you pray for another, you are incapable of killing another.
August 20, 2002Those prayers that you offer us give us strength…indeed, it is almost confidence.
July 18, 1985PRAYING FOR THE DEAD
Those prayers that you offer are a help to all souls as they join us. They illuminate the vision of souls that have entered a new life.
November 5, 1989Grieving, as you know, serves only to make the transition of the soul more labored. You must elevate your souls through prayerful thanks and thereby provide a spiritual buoyancy which carries the soul of the one for whom you pray forward. In essence then, you have the opportunity of serving as a meaningful support for the soul of another, for all souls are connected.
November 5, 1989What do you pray for on behalf of another who has joined us? You pray for comfort.
January 14, 2010When you are at peace and you offer a prayer to a soul who has joined our lives, you’re connecting to that soul in a conscious way.
July 27, 2005When you pray for another who has crossed to this life, you are providing food for that soul. You are supplying the sustenance which gives the soul the capacity, the strength, vision and keenness of awareness to recognize God’s path.
August 28, 1981When you pray for someone who has joined with us, that soul of course acknowledges, recognizes, and feels blessed in being recalled, in being thanked, in being prayed for.
March 30, 2010Holding one who has transitioned to us in a loving light that is peaceful, thankful, and asks only for the best for that soul, provides a support beyond your imagination.
April 5, 2005COLLECTIVE PRAYER
When you pray alone, the beneficiary of that prayer is not only what it is that you pray for—an individual, cause, a condition—the beneficiary is also the self, the individual who offers the prayer. Praying collectively, the beneficiary, in addition to what is prayed for, is actually the collective of those in prayer.
January 14, 2010Prayer as a group is ordained by God. It is God’s intention that the reaching of the soul be done in unison with others.
September 14, 1979When several are gathered prayerfully, opening themselves to God, the light is stronger than solitary prayer. It is for this reason that you find messages received in a group to be more encompassing than those received alone, for it is easier for us to transmit a powerful reflection than one whose brightness is somewhat less.
August 24, 1979You all have the capacity to reach for God individually, but the sureness of your reaching is so much stronger as a group.
September 14, 1979If many are gathered in prayer, then many are creating the energy that blesses all that has been created. The impact as a result is stronger, not because God responds more strongly, but because of the energy resulting from your collective prayer.
January 14, 2010RESPONSE TO PRAYER
God’s response to prayer is immediate. It is your recognition of God’s response that takes time.
April 24, 1981Following prayer comes silence, and then thoughts emerge. Those incoming thoughts are part of God’s loving response.
June 22, 2005Insight that you can have total faith in comes only through prayer.
June 1, 1986If you spend all of your energy pleading, there is nothing left to hear God’s response.
June 9, 2004If prayers are motivated out of selfishness, then there is no positive component. God’s response can only be positive.
August 21, 2001God responds to your prayers through love. It is not a response because you asked for a specific prayer, a specific response, a specific outcome.
January 26, 2006It is so foolish to expect that God would respond in kind to the specifics of every prayer that is offered, for those specifics are not the real goals. They are only indications of the purposes which motivate that prayer, namely the achievement of peace.
July 11, 1988God responds through prayer, not because of prayer.
April 6, 1983If your perception of God is in one who intercedes constantly, who takes action and steps in, then your lives will be riddled with many disappointments. But if you see God as one who can provide you with the strength, the insight, and the peace to endure and move ahead and grow, you will never be disappointed.
February 28, 1986Praying that God will change something or that God will intercede does not move God to such change or intercession. Rather, it moves individuals to look for God and in seeing God, that change, that intercession is realized. God is not placed into action. It is human beings who are given vision.
June 9, 2004God responds to you as you feel, not according to what you say. When you pray to God for the help of someone else, you are really praying as an expression of your love and concern. God’s response is not the result of your desire that one be completely cured. God’s response is to the reflection back to God of your love for another. God responded to your thoughts, to your feelings—not to your words.
July 7, 1985Our response to your needs and God’s response to your needs comes without your prayer. Your prayer, your asking for assistance, is a way of your becoming aware of that very help.
October 30, 2006Your prayers serve to open the lines of communication, to clear the channel so that you are enabled to be the recipient of God’s love, to be the recipient of God’s care and guidance.
November 20, 1981
If you receive all answers to all concerns, you have been gratified but have not grown.
May 22, 1981There are so many souls who ask for God’s strength but remain closed to receive it, and we stand by with a feeling of remorse and regret and a desire to do all we can to open those souls so that they may receive God’s light.
April 24, 1981If you remove your pride and vanity and listen to what your conscience is instructing you to do, you will then be guided directly by God.
May 22, 1981God provides each of you with the equipment, the antenna, the receiver, to focus in and receive Divine direction, but you must activate the circuitry. You must decide that is what must be done.
October 24, 1981You must have faith that God answers your prayers. God’s response is immediate. It is your perception of that response which takes time.
November 2, 1979The truth is that God responds to another soul because God is God and not specifically because you ask God to respond.
November 20, 1981One does not often specifically get what one specifically prays for. The reason, quite simply, is that when you pray, you frequently pray for the wrong things.
May 8, 1983Prayer is really the only effective means of achieving those moments of peace which strengthen your spiritual lights.
January 9, 1987MEDITATION
Meditation does not have to be words or sounds. The most beneficial meditation is an emptying of the clatter of the mind. It is the willingness to be, not to do.
January 29, 2001Meditation, when preceded by prayer, is the word of God speaking to your soul in the same manner as we do.
May 30, 1979Meditation takes many forms, but the most helpful for your growth is one that allows you to suspend all thoughts, to suspend fears and anxieties. Allow yourselves the luxury of existing. Hold that place as long as you can. You will know what it means to be supportive of your spirit as a result of your work in silence.
January 29, 2001Even five minutes of just being a part of life—not trying to control it or respond to it, but being able to float, as it were, in a sense of timelessness—allows you the opportunity of drawing enormous spiritual energy. It also allows you the chance of regaining physical strength and endurance, for you are allowing the physical side of your life to back off and not to dominate, thereby providing a chance for the spiritual part of you to come to the front as a controller of your life.
October 8, 1983When you approach events in your life in which you must achieve an understanding which is not part of your daily experience, seek ways to find inner peace, ways to find an abiding sense of calm. Imagine yourselves being warmer. Try to feel the physical warmth and clear your minds of your concerns or anxieties. You will find in this manner your insights will grow.
February 27, 1981When you encounter challenging moments each day, first seek peace and you will be guided on your path.
October 30, 2008Allow yourselves to be submerged in the loving bliss of spiritual presence, even if it only lasts but a moment, you will know what it means to be in direct contact with your soul.
January 29, 2001There are those who are successful in their meditation, in their listening, when such activity is but a moment. What you are doing is catching a glimpse of your spiritual energy. Fortified by that glimpse, you are able to move forward.
November 26, 2002
RELATIONSHIPS
You are close to God. You are as close to God as you are to us. That is ever so much closer than each of you to another.
June 12, 1981Each of you is related to the other in no greater sense than you are related to all matter that exists on earth or throughout the universe.
May 8, 1981As you become more sensitive to another, you are becoming closer to God, for God is that other person.
March 27, 1981You can look in the eyes of a stranger and see God.
May 15, 2006If you seek in some manner to find the good in another, the redeeming quality of strength and faith, then you are seeking God.
March 27, 1981You may meet someone for the first time and believe that is the beginning, but we tell you that is not the beginning. It is only when circles intersect. Your lives intersected as Spirit before they intersected together in human life.
May 2, 2005Those whom you know in life you have known previously, for all souls recognize one another.
May 25, 2005Your connections to one another are the product of your history with one another—the history that precedes your human experience.
June 7, 2005You know all whom you meet, you know all whom you do not meet, for in your prior spiritual life, you were together.
May 2, 2005It is the realm of relationships that provides the richest soil for the growth of spirits.
May 25, 2005Your lives are given purpose, they are directed, they are given meaning and impact because of whoever is next to you.
February 9, 2004Think for a moment how you reacted to someone recently. The impact can be understood by positioning your thoughts to the perspective of the other.
April 19, 2004Your responsibilities to others are in support, not in competition; in caring and not rejection; in giving, not taking; in listening and not speaking; in accepting and not rejecting. These are the ways that you touch another’s life in a way reflective of God’s presence. You are mirrors of God.
February 12, 1984
What you see with your senses is but a kind of window dressing that gives you an opportunity to identify one another, but you are given human form so that you may ultimately feel an identification with all human beings, regardless of race or belief, regardless of age, place within society, regardless of whether male or female.
March 29, 2004For sacrifice to have purpose, it is beneficial to both another and to yourself.
January 26, 2006COMMUNICATION
Communication between individuals and groups, societies, nations, communities is effective when all feel free.
July 9, 2009
It is the one who listens who most strongly demonstrates the presence of love.
October 8, 1983When you listen, you hear God. When you listen to another person, you hear the God in that person.
October 8, 1983SELF-CONCERNS
Loving means accepting who you are and where you are, and accepting who another is and where that other is.
January 29, 2009The purpose of accepting oneself is so that you may accept another.
May 8, 1983
Your inner vision is clear when you are committed to understanding, to listening, to sharing, to loving, to being totally unselfish.
August 1, 2006Selfishness, in whatever manifestation it may be seen, is ultimately a denial of spirit.
May 18, 2004Difficulties in relationships always emanate from self. If you have difficulty with the actions or beliefs of another, the difficulty is yours.
February 19, 2007
In order to be able to respond positively, constructively, toward another, you must eliminate that sense of self which is fed by pride and vanity.
November 20, 1981Selfishness in its broadest sense is the attitude of putting oneself first.
November 20, 1981Selfishness has no part in your relationships with others. It is not an expression of your soul; it is a matter of human choice.
May 22, 1981CHALLENGING RELATIONSHIPS
When you are met with praise, it is to be received with humility, and when you are met with criticism, it is to be received with compassion.
May 25, 2005You become stronger through the use of muscles in activity, in meeting resistance, be it gravity or some other kind. It is in engaging that resistance that you become physically stronger, and it is likewise in engaging resistance in your relationships that you become spiritually stronger.
February 19, 2007
If someone accuses you of something that you feel is unjust, it is appropriate to begin a discussion by reflecting back what you understand has been communicated to you.
March 12, 2007
If you have disagreements with another, you certainly can express them, but take a moment before expressing them to acknowledge what you respect, what you value in another.
March 24, 2008
Impatience toward others is judgmental—impatience toward oneself is destructive.
May 5, 1984
When you reach out to another and you are not met, continue to reach out. You enrich both lives.
June 12, 1981Fences, alas, do not make good neighbors.
November 29, 2007
SERVICE
You wonder whether there is a fundamental truth that should underlie your life. That truth is to care.
June 15, 2006Your lives must be shaped by caring, for in caring, the love that is God is made into human form, and you are empowered in your caring to bring strength and light to souls around you, and to bring focus of God’s light upon your own soul.
June 15, 2006Give to others what God gives you. That is your purpose in life.
May 8, 1983You live ultimately to serve others because God serves you.
November 12, 1983Growth occurs through service to other souls.
May 30, 2006It is in giving that you truly receive.
January 10, 1982In achieving balance in life, the channels to spiritual growth are pointed in many different directions, but they all result in the growth of the spirit. Therefore it should be in the consciousness of all to provide assistance, to provide a means for helping others to achieve balance.
April 19, 2004You must learn the importance of being vulnerable, allowing yourselves to have needs, allowing yourselves to receive the light from others. You are in reality strengthening yourselves to be a servant of the needs of others.
June 7, 2010Being freed of a burden means you are freed in order to serve.
February 9, 2004There is nothing that we provide you which must remain with you, for all that is given must in turn be given away. You are channels, just as we are.
May 8, 1983SERVING OTHERS IS SERVING GOD
You are living to serve others, and in so doing, to serve God. It is only then that your soul develops.
September 21, 1980There are those who claim to be serving God directly, and yet they close the door to their neighbor. They are not serving God; they are serving themselves.
May 29, 1983You serve God by serving another, but it is also true that in treating another in your mind with love, you are also serving God.
January 21, 1984You are a part of God—all of you are a part of God. By serving another, you are serving God because the other is God just as you are.
February 13, 1981If you knew that someone close by was God, and that person was in difficulty, you would never hesitate to offer your help. The truth is everyone is God in that everyone has that spark of the divine.
May 15, 1982HOW TO SERVE
You can affirm and support and uplift and give love without a word in exchange. Words in themselves have less power than the act of being present.
June 15, 2006
When serving others, it is often most helpful to just sit and be, sit and listen, sit and watch. You offer nothing but your presence and your presence is the most loving of acts for you expect nothing in return.
March 30, 2010You pray for strength, not to be stronger, but to serve, to function, to give, to support, to encourage, to reinforce and affirm.
December 11, 2007
The answer to “what is best for me” is “what is best for you,” because in doing what is best for you, that is what is best for me.
October 29, 2007Give others a sense of worth, of value, of hope, and, most important of all, of achievement, for with that comes self-respect.
February 29, 1980
If a pebble from the path is offered with the palm up, the hand reflects the light above it. If the pebble is offered in a fist, it is offered in darkness. All gifts to another must be offered with the palm facing upward, illuminated and warmed by light.
February 11, 2008
As you respond to others in compassion, you are a part of the light and love that is God. Your energies are enmeshed with God’s and there is no distinction.
December 11, 2008
Love is offered freely, and when what you do is offered lovingly and confidently, even if it does not meet the specifics of what has been asked, your response is a godly response.
January 26, 2006In no way does caring for the afflicted eliminate opportunities that are essential for their spiritual growth.
April 19, 2004When you feel discouraged, downtrodden, sad, search for ways to help even one other person.
September 28, 1979
If you feel the need for a diminished outreach, that is God’s way of preparing you for a new service at a later time.
November 12, 1983
If you wonder whose lives are more beneficial, look to those who serve others.
February 16, 2009Be open to evidence of godliness experienced by someone toward another.
August 17, 2005True achievement is the elevation of some aspect of humankind, not of one person.
February 29, 1980It is good to be concerned when you see injustice. It is good to be concerned when you see insensitivity. It is good to be concerned when you see evidence of ignorance or a lack of caring, for that is the motivation to act out your faith, and in so doing, you become the vision of someone else’s sight, you become the objective, you become the example, you become the hope. It is your actions that give evidence of God to others.
June 9, 2004When you know what it means to be ministered to, when you know what it means to be cared for, when you know the touch of a healing hand, when you know the care of an enfolding arm, you are becoming aware of the true Giver of those gifts. God gives gifts through others.
April 19, 2004Giving with no possibility of receiving in response is the ultimate kind of gift, for you are giving because you are responding as your spirit, your inner soul, responds.
March 30, 2010You are blessed when you give with no hope of receipt, but you are also blessed when you receive with no current hope of giving back.
March 30, 2010
SOUL/SPIRIT
DEFINITION OF SOUL
Soul is the infinite and permanent capacity to love.
May 15, 2006
Your conscience is your soul.
January 9, 2006Your souls begin long before the experience of human life. Your souls are created by God, but they are not yet God.
December 1, 2005A soul is not born. It is an eternal entity.
December 12, 1981The soul does not have a beginning and an end. It is part of what always has been and shall always be.
April 30, 1983Your souls have existed always within a context of your always having been a part of God. God did not have a beginning and therefore your souls have no beginning.
October 24, 1982In our plane, we refer to souls being young or old. It is not meant in a chronological sense. It is meant in terms of development.
April 30, 1983All souls originally existed only in spiritual form.
November 20, 2006The nature of the soul prior to experience of human life is one of an undifferentiated personality.
October 24, 1982The soul that is your mate on your journey remains with you, but a soul is a different kind of entity from human life. The soul is a combination of many and varied spiritual experiences. There is no boundary to your soul.
June 30, 2008Your spirit is not limited only to human life. Your spirit is capable of many layers of love, many layers of awareness, many ways of belonging.
January 11, 2007All that exists contains spirit. All is therefore sacred. The sacredness of things seen and things unseen cannot be violated.
May 24, 2010Has your spirit center, your soul, inhabited another animal, or will it inhabit another animal? The answer is no, but all animals have a kind of energy that reflects God, and that energy is of equal importance to your own spirit source.
January 22, 2007Your soul has light, and when the light from your own soul emanates outward, it becomes part of spirit.
May 19, 2008Your souls are brighter when they are active, when they reach out and use the energy available to them from God.
August 28, 1981You are identified through your souls, for your souls are all that are permanent about you.
January 11, 2007More than any other factor, your personality is governed by your soul.
April 18, 1980Your soul remains with you always, but we can also tell you that there are times when another soul joins together with your spirit center and can have great impact upon your life.
April 30, 2007SOUL/GOD CONNECTION
You are the temple of the soul, and the soul is your direct connection with God.
December 12, 1981The seeking of the spirit is a desire to return to its creation.
April 22, 2010It is your soul that provides the thread that joins the Spirit Center of God to the human center of your own lives. In that sense, your soul is divine, but no soul residing in human form is perfect.
November 10, 2005All souls, all spirits are created from God and all spirits return to God.
October 8, 2007Each of you is a part of God, as your souls are a part of God.
January 11, 1980Your souls are a part of God. They always have been a part of God.
December 12, 1981All souls eventually grow to become the love that is God. This is an undeniable statement of truth. There is no merit placed on growth being achieved quicker than another, for in a sense of spiritual development, there is no time.
December 15, 2005You know that your souls are a part of God, but because of that, there is no way that God’s presence can be removed from wherever you are.
April 8, 1984All of us collectively, as souls, are God.
October 26, 1980All spirits or souls belong to God, as your hands belong to you.
January 11, 1980All souls are related as a brother and sister to the same parent.
April 18, 1980All of you are souls united in the family of God and absolute equals.
October 9, 1980Your soul does not feel separate from the soul of your neighbor. For your soul, the neighbor’s soul is the same.
June 30, 2008Your soul that you accept as your own is merely the connection point between your human lives and the collection of spirits that is comprised of all souls.
June 30, 2008Spirit grows and therefore God grows.
March 7, 2005Spirit, with a capital S, the totality of all souls, is not unchangeable.
March 7, 2005God knows the strengths of each of your souls, and therefore the potential each of you has for responding to God.
October 10, 1981Your souls are attracted to the magnetic of the Spirit Center, God.
March 24, 2008No soul is separated in any way from the God Center.
December 1, 2005Your souls have different identities, different experiences, different gifts in order that Spirit that affects all of creation may be enhanced.
March 7, 2005Souls from the body of God or from the mass of God were infused with human life. The spiritual entity resulting from being placed by God in a human form has always resonated with the presence of God.
April 30, 1983You are endowed with souls. Those souls have emotion. Those souls have a personality. Those souls have a consciousness. There would be no purpose for such characteristics if they were not also shared with God.
September 12, 2005SOULS CHOOSE LIFE
Your souls choose you to accompany the human life experience, for each of you has a unique set of potentials, and it is in the exercising of these potentials that your soul is strengthened and given wisdom.
January 9, 2006A soul chooses a particular life-form for its potential. That potential may be influenced by where in the world that life begins. It may be influenced by the experiences of the family of that new life-form. It may be influenced by many factors, but nothing is preordained to happen to that life-form.
April 19, 2004You are given life so that your soul may grow. You are not just given a soul so your human form can flourish. It is the human form that serves the soul, and it is the soul that benefits from its attachment to human life.
November 10, 2005We choose to incarnate because we are aware of the lessons that need to be learned. Only we can make that choice, for that choice is never made in isolation, it is never made alone. Such a choice to join human life is made with the loving support of other spirits.
November 20, 2006Your soul chose to accompany you on this journey and that accompaniment works in two directions: the soul nourishes and guides a human life, but the human experience brings depth and understanding to the spirit.
May 30, 2006The spirit, the soul center for each of you, is never in need of refreshment, renewal, but your sense of connection to that presence is.
March 29, 2004Do we choose you as individuals? Yes and no. We choose to join your human life, but we don’t make this decision with a full “picture” as it were, of what your life will be like, for we cannot predict your choices.
November 20, 2006Your soul does not pick you because you are destined to have a difficult life or a less burdened one, for your life is not predetermined.
October 9, 2006The training ground, so to speak, for one soul may be vastly different from another. That opportunity to grow comes from an engagement with spiritual energy. The human experience is one kind of spiritual energy.
May 24, 2010There are souls who are given other life-forms that are beyond your imagination. These life-forms exist elsewhere. They do not exist on bodies in the universe that you are aware of.
December 1. 2005FUNCTION OF SOULS
Your souls govern your lives.
December 12, 1981
It is the soul that gives an individual the power to love.
February 21, 2005It is difficult to have faith in what seems to be intuitive rather than rational, but your spirit center, your soul, does not communicate with your consciousness through rational processes.
July 27, 2005Your spirit is the primary energy source for your human life, and because of that your place in the world of energy exchange is important.
November 12, 2007When the battery is charged, it is capable of assisting the production of great light. Think of your spirit as a battery, but the kind of battery that never gets weaker and only gets stronger with use.
February 19, 2007Your soul is a kind of anti-matter. It grows through challenge. It grows through illness. It grows through difficulty. It grows when used.
February 19, 2007No matter where you are in your life’s journey, no matter what character your human journey takes, the soul within you constantly points toward the proper direction.
April 30, 2007EVOLUTION OF SOULS
It is through you that the soul learns to become what the soul already knows.
August 13, 2009The spirit, while growing, is still in a condition of near perfection.
June 12, 1981You evolve…you become spirit. Spirit evolves and finally becomes pure love.
March 30, 2006The spirit does not evolve through emptiness. Spirit evolves through commitment, through action, through difficulty, through rejoicing, through frustrations, through fear, but most of all spirit thrives through love.
January 17, 2005Only physical evolution can be studied and analyzed by humans. We on our side see spiritual evolution as it occurs. We are aware when your souls move forward, and we are aware when no progress is made.
April 30, 1983No soul is lost because no soul is alone.
May 4, 2004Souls develop at different rates. There are souls who do experience life one time. There are souls who experience life many times.
May 4, 2004There are spiritual beings who seem to evolve without the need for a human life as you experience it, but there must nevertheless be some contact with human life.
October 24, 1982As your lives become enriched spiritually, they become more enmeshed with the Spirit Center. This spiritual entanglement, this sharing of space, this sharing of presence, intensifies throughout your lives. This connection, this entwinement between human and soul, ultimately leads to an identification of self as soul.
January 9, 2006
SPACE/TIME
In our existence, there is no space, all is unity. Space means separation, and for us there is no separation.
May 8, 1981As there is no space, there is no distance. All guides, all spiritual entities, are constantly united.
October 24, 2005Many life-forms exist in the same space, as you would call it, as human beings exist, and yet are undetected. It is those individuals, those individual entities of a different energy, that carry the benefit of thought to another. You emit an energy, but these other life-forms serve to transmit what you send to those who can benefit.
May 24, 2010Eliminate the sense of time.
August 31, 2009
Time for us, as you perceive it, is virtually nonexistent.
December 14, 1979Time has no meaning to us. It is only movement.
January 9, 1981We have no concept of past, present, future. We only see what is.
July 22, 2008
The reality is there is no past or future or present. It is all a single reality, not split into three conditions.
January 22, 2008
The concept of time is a human-made concept. All that exists is now. The past is merely the reflection of the present. The future is only a reflection of the present.
April 19, 2004What’s past, what’s present, what’s future, in your terms are really collectively in the present.
July 27, 2005The past is the present. The past is the future. It is merely enough to say there is no past, but there are many forms of the present.
October 5, 2009
There is nothing that exists in the future, for the future is a series of nows. The past is a series of nows.
January 29, 2009There is no time, there is no future, there is no past. All exists in the here and now. It is for that reason that we are able to communicate, for there is no distance, there is no physical barrier, there is no separation between you and God, between you and those who have gone before whom you love, between you and your guides.
May 30, 2006
SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
All spiritual development, whether through human form or spirit form, is really the evolution of loving presence.
April 8, 2004There are various levels to spiritual awareness. All is not revealed instantaneously, but is rather gleaned through patience, through love.
September 27, 2005Your approach, the sincerity in the intention that you bring in your spiritual search, is what remains particularly right in the view of God.
August 17, 2005The development of your spiritual selves indeed leads to the elimination of a sense of ego, and of course you should be working toward that end.
March 14, 1982Certainly our primary calling is towards spiritual growth, but whatever specifically is important to you holds within it the potential for spiritual growth, and therefore is of importance to God and to us.
December 18, 1983Growth is achieved through application, not theory.
June 12, 1981We can assure you that there are other life-forms associated with spiritual growth.
January 6, 2009There is a kind of evolutionary consideration to your spiritual progress, and that is measured in terms of character.
April 30, 1983It is not how fast you progress but only that you do progress. The speed is in part immaterial, and yet is frequently of great concern to you.
April 30, 1983We are concerned about spiritual development of all, and we tend to view particular problems in the earthly phase with a degree of detachment. We do not imply a disinterested approach, but we view the importance of the spiritual matters of earthly life rather than being weighted down by the physical and temporal matters of that life.
July 24, 1979There are human beings of course whose behavior is counter to God’s wishes, whose behavior inhibits the development of others. But for that individual, that is only one brief moment in the spiritual development that is occurring.
May 18, 2004Ultimately, all goals are spiritual.
June 20, 1983
SUFFERING/ADVERSITY
God does not see the infinite value of humankind being bereft of need.
January 28, 2010
It is difficult to accept the fact that pain is a blessing, but it is true.
May 16, 1980Life is given grace by the growth that takes place through adversity, but it is given character by how you express that growth to another.
February 9, 2004
By descending to a depth of an abyss, you become more aware of the perspective of the sky. If you stand on a mountaintop and look upward on a clear day, the perspective is lacking. And so it is with the mortal experience of pain.
July 7, 1979The suffering of any individual is not given by God to be endured as a way of repayment for prior debts or future debts spiritually.
March 14, 1982No individual is being punished and therefore experiences a life of great difficulty. There is no punishment.
April 19, 2004None of you experience affliction as a negative result of your efforts to live your lives as best you can. Certainly there are issues of lifestyle that can affect medical conditions, but those matters of lifestyle are not necessarily matters of faith.
January 19, 2004No one deserves to suffer…no one, whether military or not, rich, poor, evil-doing or devoted to what is good.
July 13, 2005It is not God who causes suffering, but it is God who permits it, and it is God who gives each of you the strength, the commitment, and the ability to grow.
May 16, 1980
It is not God’s will that there be suffering, but it is a part of God’s plan that through suffering there is always growth, there is always renewal, there is always transformation.
January 17, 2005When times are difficult and when you are beset by concerns, believe firmly that you do not face those issues by accident. Be willing to accept that God has placed you in those circumstances and have faith in God’s ability and desire to provide strength and guidance.
November 20, 1981If you accept that pain, that suffering, is indeed inevitable, then you can more readily turn your attention to how you can approach suffering.
May 16, 1980You are not defeated by illness; you are challenged by it. Illness has within it the seeds for growth and strength, the potential for a kind of spiritual victory.
April 25, 1982You are not singled out to be ill, but your suffering, the illnesses that you experience, are part of the fabric of growth, are part of the fabric of spiritual development, are part of the fabric that leads to an understanding of what it means to be comfortable.
December 10, 2009
Pain and anxiety, suffering are all part of the human experience. It is why you are given that experience, for through that you grow in a way you could not grow if all was in seeming balance.
November 10, 2008
It would be nice not to be burdened by the uncertainty, by the pain, by the loss, by the frustration, by the fear, but you must understand that it is only through such experiences and their transformative impact on you that the soul grows.
August 13, 2009
When you observe chaos, when you see tragedy, when you recognize suffering and fear, be committed to the fact that in you God has given all that is needed for you to radiate stability and magnify God’s presence in the world.
October 10, 1981When you feel so concerned about your own well being, try to switch your awareness to the needs of someone else.
March 20, 1982You cannot approach those who create suffering with anything other than compassion and a desire to provide what is needed for balance. Punishment is not the answer.
July 13, 2005The challenge for all is to find within chaos the presence of God.
June 9, 2004God’s greatest potential for help is when you are down, when you are discouraged or concerned.
May 15, 1982You cannot learn the meaning of compassion unless someone has been compassionate toward you. For someone to give compassionately to you, there must be need. That need is never created when all is going as one would hope.
January 17, 2005The tragedies that surround human life worldwide provide such magnificent opportunity to transform your own lives from being loved to being loving.
January 17, 2005What you consider to be great trauma, great difficulty, is but the briefest challenge imaginable.
May 18, 2004If you are gravely ill, it is common for your soul to be joined by a community of spirits which strengthen spiritual energy within and help guide the Spirit Center on its own journey through the human suffering that is encountered.
April 30, 2007
UNITY
The union between God and those of us on our side and you is complete and continuous.
September 25, 1982You are not merely one another’s brother or sister—you really are the same.
September 25, 1982You are united with the homeless and you are united with those of the most lofty offices.
February 9, 2004If you are committed to the reality of your own spirit, your soul, there is no possibility of thinking that you are in some manner separate from another.
May 18, 2004You are all one, really. You have different purposes in life. You have different lifestyles. You are at different stages in your development, but you are still really one, just as an eye and a toe are ultimately part of the same body. You are part of the same body.
October 23, 1983When there is injustice somewhere in the world, that injustice, that suffering, does not take place in a vacuum. It resonates everywhere. When there is hunger, all human beings share, at some level spiritually, that hunger.
May 18, 2004The spiritual life is fully unified. We are all part of a single entity, just as you also are a part of that entity—that entity of God, that entity of pure love.
September 27, 2005If you truly embrace the truth that you and God occupy the same time and space and are indeed one, a total unit, your priorities are then determined, for all of your responses are God’s responses, and in turn all responses are directed toward God.
October 24, 1981All of creation is equal. That means all, but it does not imply that all creation has the same purpose.
May 22, 1981The soul of one individual is in no way separated from the soul of another. We may have individual characteristics but we are in no way separated.
April 8, 2004There are no islands, for all islands are ultimately connected. Emphasize how you are connected, and pull your eyes away from the evidence pointing toward uniqueness.
November 16, 2009
As your awareness of your own spirituality grows and deepens, you become more keenly aware of your connectedness to all other human beings.
May 18, 2004The presence of the individual awareness is vital as the soul develops its strength, but it is only in the loss of that individuality that the soul achieves its ultimate potential—the complete union with all other souls.
October 24, 1982When souls are joined in their earnest traverse through life toward an awareness of God, there is a strength in unity which exceeds beyond your imagination. This sureness, this sense of purpose, makes it more difficult for life’s contours to alter direction. It is for this reason that corporate worship and gatherings such as yours are necessary.
September 14, 2010You are asked to join hands with one another in spirit, in prayer, in your dreams, your hopes for a world motivated by the search for peace.
January 22, 2008Race does not exist with spirit. Race does not exist as a component of the soul contained within the body. What you perceive with your own eyes is precisely what is unimportant.
May 19, 2008You cannot identify yourselves as being separate from any object, animate or inanimate.
March 7, 2005Every soul achieves ultimate unity with all other souls and with the Spirit Center that you call God.
May 25, 2005Every human being shares as a participant in the same single unified spirit.
February 19, 2007You can only recognize all souls are one when you are in balance.
May 4, 2004Your spirit is felt to be permanent, but nevertheless you and your spirit guide, you as human beings and all of us as spiritual beings, are really the same single entity.
October 5, 2009Our blessing is to look inward to see God, and to look outward and see you, for you are part of the same entity.
May 10, 2010