Rae Feutz

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it.

Besides such exercises, one must learn to be concentrated in everything one does, in listening to music, in reading a book, in talking to a person, in seeing a view. The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given.

Do external things distract you? Give yourself time to learn something new and constructive. Stop being whirled about. But you must also avoid being swept the other way, and become a trifler grown weary by a purposeless life, with thoughts and activities flying in all directions.

Anyway, when I don’t write to you I feel as bad as I do when I don’t pray, locked up in myself and choking on my own heart.

“I am rising to the work of a human being. I’m done complaining about doing what I was born to do. Or have I been born to sleep in pajamas, trying to keep warm?”

We are all part of One; we are One. This being so, it should not make any difference whom we love. Love should be essentially an act of will, of decision to commit my life completely to that of one other person.

11. Don’t fall prey to following the opinions of your enemy, search out the truth yourself.

praise? Or spoiled by disrespect? Is an emerald made ugly by lack of attention? How about gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a knife, a flower, a shrub?

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Being separate means being cut off, without any capacity to use my human powers.