Illusions
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Quotes:
- "In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for
which we have chosen this lifetime."
- "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it
work."
- "Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy,
anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a
divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No
exceptions."
- "How about I allow the world to live as it chooses, and I
allow me to live as I choose."
Messiah's Handbook - Reminders for the Advanced Soul:
Perspective - Use it or Lose it. If you turned to this page, you're
forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think
about that. Remember where you came from, where you're going, and
why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.
You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good
training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on your way
to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life
forms, and they'll call you crazy.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible,
but the mark of a fake messiah.
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born?
Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think
about these once in a while, and watch your answers change.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you do or say is published
around the world -- even if what is published is not true.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than
your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say "I've got
responsibilities."
You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature,
the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away
from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything
to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and
choose a different future,
or a different past.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its
hands.
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of
respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one
family grow up under the same roof.
Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.
Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of
one thing : The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at
just such a speed. It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go
now. But the sky knows the reasons and patterns behind all clouds,
and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see
beyond horizons.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to
make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your
sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if
you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear
the pages.
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will
understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than
people with bodies and heartbeats.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have
drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. The
truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it
needs to be.
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished :
If you're alive, it isn't.
In order to live freely and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It
is not always an easy sacrifice.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you
can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is
certain for those who are friends.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice
and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the
master calls a butterfly.
Everything on this list may be wrong.
