Vials of Passion : From Wrath to Love
To recapitulate: The first state of awakening causes people to wonder. In this spontaneous experience of wonder, they often have a genuine God-experience and relationship. But then, as they grow more conflicted and fearful and their desires become more urgent, all these emotions and attitudes color the first God-experience and they no longer relate
... See moreEva Pierrakos • Surrender to God Within: Pathwork at the Soul Level
How do we experience painful circumstances without becoming embittered by them?
By seeing them as lessons and not as retribution.
Pat Rodegast • Emmanuel's Book
Divine love is forgiving love. Sorrow must be allowed to blossom into self-forgetful love of God.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
For example, if we accept that anger is part of who we are, when we recognise we are angry we have a chance to construct, dig, build, and carry heavy burdens with the strength that anger builds within us. Likewise too much compassion, and we drown in it. To have compassion is to give, tend and nurture, but in our perfectly imperfect state, this can
... See moreMinmia Smith • Under The Quandong Tree
There is no pain that, if you meet it constructively and with out false ideas and projections, will not prove to be a tunnel through which you go comparatively quickly, releasing beautiful energy, love, and power. There is no hate so ugly, or negative intentionality so awful, that expressing it honestly —rather than acting it out against others —wi
... See moreEva Pierrakos • Surrender to God Within: Pathwork at the Soul Level
Transmute Lower Desires — Use will to elevate instincts into purpose. Instead of suppressing urges, elevate them. Turn lust into creativity, anger into action, fear into awareness.