I strive to do things better than is required. I always ask myself to do more than would be thought of as "acceptable." If I'm considering taking on a job or a responsibility, I say to myself, "Don't do it unless you are going to do it the best way you can." That way, everyone involved can rest easy, because I'm doing my personal best to make a project work.

The body is the temple for the Soul on this physical level. For these reasons it is important to keep the body healthy and fit, able to assist you in your spiritual progression and not hinder you. If the body is in a state of disease, pain, or discomfort, it can distract you from the awareness of the spiritual.

If you feel like you can't say, "I love you," to your child or your spouse, go stand in front of a mirror and say, "I love you, I love you, I love you," until you break through that block. If you feel silly, stand in front of the mirror and say, "I'm silly, I'm silly, I'm silly," until you don't care anymore. Don't let your emotions block you from honest, loving expression.

Divine love is not possessive. We express our devotion as "I love you," or "God Bless you," and life begins unfolding. We are not even in an area of discipline anymore; we have bypassed it. We enter the area of divine service and we are part of those who have learned to live in freedom.

My definition of evil is "unnecessary experience." The Soul is here to gain experience, but not all experience is necessary. Some things are a detour, a distraction and yet you must remember that not one Soul will be lost, so in the bigger picture, there is no unnecessary experience. It just depends on how many millions of existences you want to have experiences before you return to God.

With Soul Transcendence, we are speaking of moving the consciousness into the Soul, activating the Soul so it can move more into pure Spirit.

I don't criticize myself. But I do critique what I've done in order to decide how I can improve. There's a big difference in the two. Instead of being hard on myself, I ask myself this question: "If this situation shows up again, how will I do better next time?" That keeps me moving forward in my life.

All of the negative conditions, praise God, are temporary and cannot last. They must come to an end, hopefully sooner rather than later. We might as well go for now.

No matter how much we want to master someone or something or some little idiom of our own consciousness, we do not become masters until we see the face of God and we lift into that consciousness where all things reside perfectly.

The Bible says, "As a man thinks, in his heart he becomes." And one of the laws of the mind is, "Hold the picture in your mind that you want more of and you'll get it." If you hold the picture in your mind you want less of, you are going to get that.

Look more deeply at your creation and responsibility so you are experiencing what is yours to learn from and correct in what you have created that is not serving the highest good.

There is a Game of Life and the Game of Love. Most people are playing the Game of Life, trying to make life work. Life already works. How we bring loving into it is the big key. That's playing the Game of Love, and it's by far the bigger game.

You must continually exercise your consciousness of living free, where you can choose whatever you choose, you can go wherever you go, and you can do whatever you do.

The most balanced action is just to keep the body healthy and in shape so that you are free to move your awareness away from the physical into other levels.

The correct use of the imagination is to hold pictures of completion, and to hold the pictures of what we want more of. Truly, a positive outlook by way of visualization takes place on this imagination level. We can therefore choose to see in our creative imagination everyone doing good, everyone being good, everyone having good - and "everyone" includes ourselves!

Do you get the idea that life, by the mere living of the practicalness of Spirit, does not exclude anything? It includes everything. You may have to find out how to reach in there and get it, but that stops you from being bored - and maybe more importantly - it stops you from being boring. The spiritual life is not boring.

Through divine love we see things in their proper place. Then we simply use our will to recognize it.

Energy follows thought. That means if you are thinking about a hot fudge sundae, all the levels of your consciousness come in line to bring that to you. The same is true for envisioning and moving toward higher awareness and Soul Transcendence. All of your levels will start making that happen.

The good news is, whatever is going on you can handle. Maybe not so well in the psychic material dimensions, but always in who you are spiritually which is of an eternally good nature.

Each of us must decide what truth we will live by. It's important that my personal best be my personal best, and that yours be your personal best. In other words, you do your personal best in terms of yourself - so that you run your own life.