Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Intimacy With God

God isn’t just demanding our respect and gratitude—He wants us to welcome Him on earth. Create and sustain a place and time where God can dwell in your life and He will always be there for you.

Seeking Peace

Never seek or demand peace or well-being for yourself—that is the surest way to never find it. Seek well-being for God and for those around you, and peace will follow you wherever you go.

The Spirit World

The spirit world is all around us, influencing us, creating the atmospheres in which our actions breathe. However, the natural spirit world on earth promotes chaos and death. Only the one who seeks the Holy Spirit lives in an oasis of peace.

Choose to Listen

The one who listens is more powerful than the one who speaks. Although they never get any credit, the listeners are the ones who create good in the world. The one who listens to other humans grant space for them to discover themselves. The ones who listen to creation opens up new worlds previously undiscovered, although right before our eyes. The one who listens to the Spirit creates a highway between heaven and earth.

Question Education

Most education is a crock. Learn what you need to live on. Learn how to survive on what you do well. It may require some suffering and quite a bit of poverty on the way, but make it a goal to live on what you love to do.

Depending on Others' Self Control

Control yourself, because you can’t depend on anyone else controlling themselves.

Spiritual Slavery

“Do you know what makes people really spiritual? It is when they become enslaved to God and are branded with his sign, the sign of the cross, signifying that they have surrendered their freedom to Him. Then He can sell them as slaves to the entire world, as He himself was sold.”

-Teresa of Avila