
Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

The first step is to realize that life is a process. Our culture leads us to forget this fact and makes the destructive suggestion that we can perfect life and then get it to stand still.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
In the long run, life is intolerable without faith.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
Just to say this plainly: human beings can never be made happy by the material world. We are spiritual beings and can be emotionally healthy only when we are in touch with a higher world. We need higher forces just as we need air. This is not abstract philosophy, it is a description of our nature. But it requires constant work to stay in touch with
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Just to say this plainly: human beings can never be made happy by the material world. We are spiritual beings and can be emotionally healthy only when we are in touch with a higher world.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
We have forgotten that time is sacred.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
nothing new can be brought into the world in a state of complete certainty. Creating requires you to go into the unknown.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
Just to say this plainly: human beings can never be made happy by the material world. We are spiritual beings and can be emotionally healthy only when we are in touch with a higher world.
Phil Stutz • Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You
If you take the time to practice it, you’ll see that it is possible to systematically change your mood. Begin by feeling the heavy, demoralized feeling you have when depressed. Focus on it, and tell yourself that you are going to change that feeling into something positive. Imagine that, up above your head, there is a powerful flow of energy, a jet
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world. The definition of love is that it accepts everything. If you can send love to someone you hate then you can embrace anything in life. You have experienced real love. Not until then can you activate the higher world.