If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

Thought, word, and deed are the three levels of creation.

What you give, you become.

I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did not coincide, did not match up, with my interior reality. And as they were teaching me about that God I was thinking: Who are they talking about? This was not how I experienced God. I gradually began to move away from the God of organized religion.

God is everywhere, and exists in us, through us, as us.

It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.