Always try to be as understanding as possible with those you meet along your journey.  We all have our faults, our negative points, our addictions.

     When someone you know or encounter treats you unfairly, try to picture them as someone you love immensely, someone you would never speak to in a harsh or unloving way.  Be always ready to forgive.  Life is too short and the time we have too precious to waste brooding away at someone.

     Forgiveness is a gift that never stops giving.  Sometimes we give it, sometimes we get it, but whenever it’s present, there’s always great joy.

— Excerpted from The Truth as I See It: A Collection of Spiritual Writings by Adam Soto (p. 51)

 

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     Don’t be surprised if some people don’t believe you when you talk about God.  Some may say that you can’t have any knowledge of God because of your age—you may be too young or too old.  Others because of your education or lack thereof: “If you didn’t go to seminary, how could you know anything about God?”  Your lifestyle: “You’re not perfect—how can you talk about God?”  Perceived human limitations: “Humans can’t possibly grasp a being as grand as God—how arrogant!”  The many different portrayals of God: “Everyone has a different perception of God; therefore, no one can know the truth.”  Or that we can’t possibly know the truth now: “We won’t find out until we’re dead.”  But believe none of them.  Let no one define your limits for you, and let no one define the limits of God.  If God wants to share a revelation with you, who is anyone else to say that that’s impossible?

     Stay true to God, and have a faith without limits.

— Excerpted from The Truth as I See It: A Collection of Spiritual Writings by Adam Soto (p. 51)

 

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     “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life.”

– Elsie de Wolfe

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1098966-i-m-going-to-make-everything-around-me-beautiful-that-will-be

     Just as we need food every day to stay alive and healthy, so it is with the spiritual aspects of our lives.  Therefore, find things that will inspire you in your relationship with God and those around you.  Study various religious or spiritual sources and put them into practice; they are your food and drink to keep you strong along your journey.

     It is when we are “in-spirit” that we are closest to God and each other, and can find the greatest growth, revelation, and joy.

— Excerpted from The Truth as I See It: A Collection of Spiritual Writings by Adam Soto (p. 50)

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     “Love is your quality. Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”

― Sadhguru, Midnights with the Mystic

Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/30378.Sadhguru

     Good people are good, regardless of how anyone else treats them.  Their goodness has an effect on the people around them, even those who try to use or abuse or take advantage of them.

     Good people must be willing, when necessary, to bear the injustice the world may throw their way and turn it into good, so that through their example, the world can wake up and remember how to live.

— Excerpted from The Truth as I See It: A Collection of Spiritual Writings by Adam Soto (p. 50)

 

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     Some time ago I wrote a quote that says, “There is both good and bad in life; those who are happy concentrate on the good.”

     There will always be bad things in the world and things to be negative about, but there is also much joy, much more joy than sorrow.  It’s never healthy to concentrate on too much negativity.  I’m not saying to bury your head in the sand or close your eyes to suffering, but why dwell on it when there’s so much more to be happy about?

     There’s an old saying that “like attracts like.”  So if you concentrate too much on the negative, what do you think you’re going to attract?

— Excerpted from The Truth as I See It: A Collection of Spiritual Writings by Adam Soto (p. 50)

 

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     When the Master met a group of teachers he spoke long and animatedly for he had been a teacher himself.  The trouble with teachers, he said, is that they keep forgetting that the goal of education is not learning but life.

     He told of the time he spotted a boy fishing in the river.

     “Hello!  Nice day for fishing!” he said to the youngster.

     “Yes,” came the reply.

     After a while the Master said, “Why aren’t you in school today?”

     “Well, sir, like you said–it’s a nice day for fishing.”

     And he told of the report card his little daughter got: “Meena is doing well in school.  She would do much better if the pure joy of living did not impede her progress.”

– Anthony de Mello, One Minute Nonsense

     To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, “You may live with me but don’t become my follower.”

     ‘Whom then shall I follow?”

     “No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.”

– Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_de_Mello

     Try your best not to let anxiety grow too strong in you, whatever the cause.  Instead, entrust your hope with God.  Ask for guidance and understanding in whatever it is that troubles you.  Draw strength in remembering that nothing can separate you from God, not even death.  Therefore, never lose your hope or trust in God.

— Excerpted from The Truth as I See It: A Collection of Spiritual Writings by Adam Soto (p. 49)

 

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