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![]() Excerpts from "A Twelve Step Program for Spiritual Enlightenment" by Phil Bolsta STEP ONE RETHINK YOUR WORLDVIEW
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper - Eden Phillports The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. - Marcel Proust (1871-1922) French Novelist STEP TWO KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT SEPARATED FROM GOD You are literally a drop of God in a sea of God. - Donald Schnell Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin STEP THREE KNOW THAT YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE LOVED As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson A person desperately searching for love is like a fish desperately searching for water. - Deepak Chopra STEP FOUR ALWAYS CHOOSE THE PATH OF MOST LOVE Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond STEP FIVE FOLLOW YOUR GUIDANCE As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Alas for those who never sing and die with all their music in them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes STEP SIX CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce. - Deepak Chopra We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin STEP SEVEN ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE God gives every bird its food but He does not throw it into the nest. - J.G. Holland Being ungrateful for what you get never gets you more. - H. Glasow STEP EIGHT DETACH FROM OUTCOMES Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. - Art Linkletter Leap and the net will appear. - Les Brown STEP NINE LEARN TO WANT WHAT YOU HAVE We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them. - Charles C. West 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. - Richard Bach STEP TEN SEE EVERY MOMENT AS A GIFT The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. - William James You may be the only Bible somebody ever reads. - Mark Twain STEP ELEVEN CONCENTRATE ON BEING, NOT DOING Often, people attempt to live their life backward. They try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. - Shakti Gawain What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes STEP TWELVE RECOGNIZE THAT EXTERNAL SECURITY IS AN ILLUSION Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable. - Deepak Chopra When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: There will either be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. - Anonymous For the full article, please go to http://www.edgenews.com/issues/2001/11/soul/bolsta.html Phil Bolsta can be emailed at philb@worldcommail.net To learn more about The Edge log on to http://www.edgenews.com
Originally published in Project X Newsletter #66
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