Small Secrets (page 2)
Pain is a temporary thing, joy is forever.
Teach by your actions not by the need to speak out and be heard.
An important lesson is to lessen the need to make your life look like your past experiences.
You can easily make yourself invisible by not listening to the little voice inside of you that says something is not quite the way you want it to be.
You begin to argue right and wrong the moment you defend your belief systems to another.
To be a total individual in this world, you have to be almost totally ineffective.
The law of the Isness is more; everything seeks change, no thing wishes to stay the same.
If you are not involved with your life, you cannot receive the joy and pleasure of it.
All things have consciousness. If you understand their consciousness you will understand how they might control you.
No one takes your power, you give it away. You give it away by losing the focus of your intentions.
If you perceive physical need you deny joy. If you perceive non-creative ability you must deny pleasure.
Embrace anger and love it for what it teaches you about yourself and for what you can change.
If you were supposed to know the answer, you wouldn't have been given the ability to learn.
Allowing both persons to be right is giving up the idea that your truth is wrong if someone else disagrees with it.
You will react and defend the laws of your universe more quickly if you think you are going to gain something by projecting those laws on someone else.
If you have two conflicting laws or belief systems in your relationships, there is a third law that you might discover.
If you are in a place of want, rather than need or desire, you will not have to give up anything or have the need to oppress another.
A fear that is not recognized will be perceived as survival.
Knowing all the wisdom in the universe will not help if you perceive you are opposed by another, or that you feel you must conquer in order to manifest your desires.
A friend is one that will not take upon them, as if it were their own, what is yours.
Anything that doesn't serve purpose and intention is not part of the agreement.
Change comes when you realize that what has happened has happened, it's over, it’s in the past and nothing can be done about it; and then doing something about it.
If you think it is the other person that you are going to convince of your way of thinking, you may almost guarantee yourself that someone or something is going to be very painful.
If you define an agreement someone is going to be a slave. If you discover an agreement both will be free.
If you are in a place of having to defend yourself, so there is a place for you to stand, you stand on ground that is not capable of supporting you.
In motion too much looks like anxiety and over-responsibility. Emotion too much looks like self-judgment, depression and lack of involvement.
You can spend an awful lot of time trying to make someone else be your picture of happiness, if you think they are the source of your happiness.
Utilize the contemplation and allow yourself to see the truth without the need to judge yourself or another.
Selfing is the willingness to accept interrelationship with another thing and allow and involve yourself for the greatest receiving possible.
When someone feels unpleasant in your universe, it is a law that doesn't work at that time. Don't try to use it; look for a third law that considers all of the other laws including the third law.
The place where you may see a part of yourself is the place that says, "I am capable of accusing, and sometimes I am incapable of seeing where my accusation was not the truth."
Never accept that you are the one that will validate or invalidate someone else's laws or beliefs.
The principles of balance must start within.
When you perceive you are going to be denied something, all you have to do is identify what you perceive you are going to be denied and know you can't be.
To be impeccable is to have a conscious understanding of your fears.
Defense is the same thing as offense. Both are attack.
The most perfect relationship you will ever have is the relationship with
yourself.
Limitations can forbid you pleasure.
You cannot give unless you first receive.
The source of your happiness is involvement in a relationship, not the other
person.
If you lessen your need to make it look like the past, then you simply accept that you want to make it look like the past because it makes you more comfortable if it does.
The reason you get to learn something new is because you are going to be involved with it sometime.
You can easily make yourself invisible by not listening to the little voice inside of you that says something is not quite the way you want it to be, something is not quite harmonious.
Fears represent opportunities for self-control.
Friend is one that does not want to stand as the adversary under any circumstance.
Friend is one that can stand as an ally when an ally is needed.
Cooperation comes from agreements, not conflict.
When you place your love outside of you, you are not joined to it, you are bound to it.
You can be most effective in your life by being extremely selfish, but it means you must move very often because you have made many adversaries.
A common path is a path where everyone's laws are considered and included.
Looking for the third law is fun, if you allow it to be fun.
Friend is one that will not try to take from you what is yours.
Oh Good! Something gets to change!
You make adversaries in your life by unfocusing yourself from the intention,
and by making agreements that you have no intention of keeping and have
every intention of escaping as soon as you can.
You do not have to judge another to have love for self.