Spiritual practice supports the development of personal power.

What you do or don’t do is not what determines your essential value—your growth perhaps, but not your value. That’s why God is totally approving and accepting of you, exactly as you are.

But what we are denying is the impostor within us. Just because we have an honest feeling, that doesn’t mean it’s who we honestly are.

Most of us are so sick of ourselves, in one way or another. It’s unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we’ve prayed to be released from.

Planets revolve around the sun, seeds become flowers, embryos become babies, and with no help from us. Their movement is built into a natural system. You and I are integral parts of that system, too. We can let our lives be directed by the same force that makes flowers grow—or we can do it ourselves.

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

As hard as it is to believe sometimes, we’re always responsible for how we see things.

“Only infinite patience produces immediate results.”

didn’t know what to do. I asked for a miracle. I considered the possibility of another possibility. I gave the situation to God and remembered that I need do nothing.