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.

If you practice this new philosophy of action, you will begin to feel the value of every action you take. Start with small steps until this philosophy becomes your natural way of functioning. If you stick to it, you will experience an influx of wisdom that will guide you very practically to your next step. The fact that you learn as much from the f

There’s a name for the correct relationship to the Father. It’s called discipline. Every time you submit to the discipline of committing

Concentration: Imagine love to be a substance spread around you everywhere. Feel yourself sucking this surrounding substance into your chest where it becomes concentrated. Transmission: Send this concentrated love toward the other person. If you are not in their presence, direct it toward an image of them in your mind. It’s like completely exhaling

Be honest. Your own life experiences have been far from ideal. But what you have experienced is what is real, not what you would like to experience. In short, the nature of reality is this: Life includes pain and adversity. The future is uncertain. Accomplishment of any kind requires discipline. You are not special. No matter what you do, you canno

Remember: whatever you are creating, you are not creating alone. Everything new is a co-production between you and the life forces of the universe. A correction means you approached these higher forces in the wrong way. You may discover you are a novelist, not a screenwriter, or that you need to start a different kind of business. Co-creating with

Self-love is the process of accepting the most inferior part of yourself.

Density Dynamic people take more actions in one morning than most people take in a month. The goal is to take many more actions in a given time period than you normally do. Start slowly, try to take even just two actions in a day, and increase from there.

Labeling an event, even just to call it an adverse event, allows you to take advantage of it instead of it taking advantage of you.