We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.

anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind—it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.

For the One who sourced the writing will also lead the meeting, if she will let Him! In A Course in Miracles, it's written that we should be less concerned about our own readiness, and more consistently aware of His.

I free the universe from my efforts to control it.

When we do not recognize our cosmic function, our own hearts break, and so does the heart of the world.