Confessing your Humanity

Confessing your Humanity
Don’t let your spirituality be a defense against your humanity. Don’t try to hide your wounds, your mistakes, your anger, your fear or your sadness in order to win the approval of others. Don’t pretend to be someone you are not.
Move away from hiding and secrecy toward self-disclosure and authenticity. Let yourself be seen as you truly are. Confess your mistakes. Share your feelings. Then you can affirm both your humanity and your spirituality.

Desire

Desire
While prayer, affirmations and other efforts to concentrate the mind sometimes yield results, they do so only when there is a strong desire behind the mental practice.

Asking for something mentally is not enough.

You must ask for it with your whole being.

Less is better than More

In the beginning we think “more” is the answer to our perception of not having enough. More money, more activity, more lovemaking. But, in time, we learn that “less” works better. Less stimulation, fewer relationships, less activity all lead to the deepening of our experience. When we focus deeply on what happens, we assimilate it fully. Then, we feel satisfied. We know that we have had enough. We don’t need more.

Loves Patient Blessing

Wherever you go, the love of God goes with you.

It moves with your legs, reaches with your hands, speaks with your voice and sees with your eyes.

Because of you, love goes forth into the world. Without you, it would be invisible.

Happiness

There is no path to happiness
Happiness itself is the path.

Dancing with the Past

Learn to forgive yourself. No matter what you have said or done, you do not deserve to suffer. Your suffering will not feed the hungry or heal the sick.
Forgive and come back into your life with a clear vision and a strong heart. Your freedom from guilt serves not just you, but also those who need your kind deeds and your compassionate understanding.

Paul Ferrini Weekly Message

Imaginary Limits
The limits you create will be real to you until you learn to step beyond them.
Then they will cease to be real.
Then, you will look back at the reality you used to inhabit and feel claustrophobic, wondering how you were able to stand its narrow confines.

Opening to Love

Every lesson that comes into your life asks you
to open your heart and mind in a new way.
Old defense mechanisms that are no longer
needed for your survival must be surrendered.
Inch by inch, the territory claimed by fear must
open to love’s embrace.

A Gentle Reminder

Your life is not better or worse than someone else’s.
Every person’s life has highs and lows, good and bad, laughter and tears. You don’t have to push away the experiences that come to you.
There is nothing there unworthy of you.
Indeed, if you look without bias, you will see that there
is no lesson that comes without a gentle reminder
that you are loved and valued exactly as you are. - Paul Ferrini