I don't think I've ever highlighted a book as much as I did in 'A Return to Love'. Here are some of my favorite quotes that spoke to me. Maybe you will appreciate them too. And if they do resonate with you, I strongly encourage you to read the book. :)
"Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of everyday.
Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven.
Closing our hearts destroys our peace because it's alien to our nature. It warps us and turns us into people we are not meant to be.
Most of us are so sick of ourselves, in one way or another. It's unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we've prayed to be released from.
Surrender means, by definition, giving up an attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.
Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
The question is not, "What kind of God would let children starve?" but rather, "What kind of people would let children starve?"
At the last moment, when things look the worst, God does tend to appear. Not because he has a sadistic sense of humor, waiting until we're totally desperate before showing us his muscle. He takes so long because it's not until then that we bother to think about Him. All this time, we thought we were waiting for Him. Little did we know, He was waiting for us.
We think there are different categories of life, such as money, health, relationships, and then, for some of us, another category called 'spiritual life'. But only the ego categorizes. There is really only one drama going on in life: our walk away from God, and our walk back. We simply reenact the one drama in different ways.
Relationships exist to hasten our walk to God.
Relationships are assignments. They are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. He appraises who can learn most from whom at any given time, and then assigns them to each other.
People who have the most to teach us are often the ones who reflect back to us the limits to our own capacity to love, those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds-- the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal."
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