ENTERING THE CASTLE: AN INNER PATH TO GOD AND YOUR SOUL
Caroline Myss
Using St. Teresa of Avila's imagery of the Soul as an interior castle, the author guides us from room to room of this inner castle, preparing us for the ultimate encounter with God and our own divinity.
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"You are watched over and guided down to the smallest detail of your life."
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"There is a divine purpose that moves in tandem with every event in your life."
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"Spiritual sweetness flows eternally from a divine source, requiring no human engineering. The water is abundant and endlessly fills the basin – meaning you."
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"Begin to dedicate daily prayer to those who have harmed you, to those who do not pray for themselves, and to the well-being of the human community."
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"Your soul is a vessel of sacred graces: compassion, harmony, wisdom, love, endurance, humor, patience, healing, and vision….these are the essence, the building blocks of your highest potential."
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"You are part of the one collective soul of all species on the planet."
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"Your link to the divine cannot be broken….it is a sealed, eternal bond."
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"So seamlessly does the world, sacred and profane, arise in one piece that I can find no boundary – anywhere in the entire universe." Ken Wilber, Foreword
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"Where there is hatred, sow love. Where there is pain, sow love. Where there is chaos, sow love."
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"Your role is to empower the life you have and the person you are – and the person you could be – with the energy of grace that listening to your soul gives you."
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"You have a biological and spiritual need to experience the awe of the sacred."
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"The inner self lives in a timeless, eternal now." Ken Wilber, Foreword
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"The divine is always present – always."
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"The mystics reassure us, as the Buddha taught, 'On life's journey, faith is nourishment and virtuous deeds a shelter.'"
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"The overall number of inner selves is but one." Ken Wilber, Foreword
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"Of all the many gifts in life that bring joy and grace to the soul, among the greatest is the choice to see the people in our lives as gifts from God."
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"You are a container for God in this world."
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"Pray to be open to the experience of divine love."
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"Even though you may not think you see or hear him, God is always present."
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"The choices you make are always and only motivated by either faith or fear."
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"You are more infinitely beautiful than you can imagine, and more infinitely gifted and blessed than words can describe."
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"Every single action generated by every life form affects the whole of the universe."
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"We cannot stop our longing for the quest for a deeper spiritual experience, because the attraction to the divine is the most basic force of our lives. Kahlil Gibran called it 'life's longing for itself.'"
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"Open your soul to the wisdom and truth in all traditions."
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"Every second offers a choice either to channel grace or to withhold it."
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