“I am sometimes asked how it feels to have exposed the magic trick of the priesthood and robbed people of their faith and belief. I recall the words of Musashi who said, "Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Living only with an outward-looking view is like living in a world of hungry ghosts constantly consuming and never satisfied. It is living with a centralized consciousness.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“For the most part, remains looking outward. We keep seeking things "out there," the latest gadget or technology that we believe will make a difference. We have successfully hacked the first-person perspective.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Matter is neither created nor destroyed. It simply appears in or form or in a sort of self-sustaining soup or what the Indian philosophy call the Dance of Lila. Lila can be loosely translated as "divine play". The concept of Lila is a way of describing all reality, as the outcome of creative play by the Divine Absolute. It is all how one thinks about it.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Who am I? You are not the name on your birth certificate. You are not even your thoughts. You are the one observing. You are the one behind your thoughts. Your mind is not you; you are the one who is OBSERVING and participating behind your mind.”
Source: Aquarius Rising: Christianity and Judaism Explained Using the Science of the Stars
“Trauma buries me. But prayer has a huge shovel.”
“The Bible assumes that we do not know instinctively how to talk with God but rather need some help with knowing how to do so. The Psalter is the Bible’s book of praise and prayer to provide the answer to those questions and meet that need. It is given to us so that we can “adapt and adjust our minds and feelings so that they are in accord with the sense of the psalms.”Eugene Peterson thus comments that the Psalms are where Christians have always learned to pray—till our age!”
Source: Psalms, Vol. 1: Psalms 1-41
“Sometimes it's not about your why, it's about God's why.”
Source: Move Into Meaning: Essential Spiritual Exercises for a Fulfilled Life
“Dear God, help me not to pray in order to get something. Help me to pray in order to do something.”
“The enormity of the decision to either embrace God wholly and with unbridled abandon, or to reject Him with unrestrained ignorance singularly stands as the one decision that we will make ‘in’ this life that will determine every other decision that we will make ‘for’ this life. Therefore, in making this single decision we will have instantly made a million others.”