Quotes from Gary R. Renard

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Misery loves company, but that doesn't mean you have to accept the invitation.

In fact, if you look at the last four syllables of the word individuality, you will see that they spell duality. That's not just a semantic accident.

But your forgiveness is done here, which means you should be practical — and respectful of other people and their experience. In other words, when you're living your everyday life, be kind. Your job isn't to correct others. Just help the Holy Spirit clean up your wrong mind by switching to your right mind, and then leave the rest to Him.

The biggest advances are not made by being a great teacher; they are made by being a great student.

for now just try to remember that if God is perfect Love, then He is not anything else, and neither are you. You are, in fact, the Love of God, and your real life is with Him. Like J, you will come to know and experience that God is not outside of you. You will no longer identify yourself with a vulnerable body or anything else that can be limited, and a body is anything that has borders or limits. You will learn instead of your true reality as pure spirit that is invulnerable forever.

There is a way of living in the world that is not here, although it seems to be. You do not change appearance, though you smile more frequently. Your forehead is serene; your eyes are quiet.

I need to bring my illusions to the truth instead of giving truth to my illusions.

The ego is a master illusionist, and one of the ways it diverts your attention, from the moment you're born, is by giving you — and this calls for another drum roll, please — problems.

You save the world by concentrating on your own forgiveness lessons.

People are always looking for God to answer their prayers. If they knew more about how to pray then they'd know how the answer is given. His answers don't come in the form of physical answers, they come to your mind in the form of guidance — an inspired idea

As far as the ego's plan is concerned, your seemingly multiple problems show up in this world in an attempt to get you to react — to feel bad, guilty, mad, defeated, bored, scared, inferior, self-conscious, annoyed, lonely, or superior and condescending. It's all some kind of a judgment, regardless of the form. As soon as you make that judgment, you give validity to the ego's world and reinforce the seeming reality of the separation and everything that goes with it.

The truth is the truth whether you agree with it or not. The truth is not subject to your interpretation.

You can lead a human to water, but you can't make him drink.

what is all-encompassing can have no opposite."26

I didn't know it, but I was at war with myself and I was losing.

Control of your mind even gives you the power to stop pain

Guilt asks for punishment, and its request is granted. Not in truth, but in the world of shadows and illusions built on sin.10

As Einstein noted, past, present, and future all occur simultaneously.

Heaven, on the other hand, is a perfect, indescribable ecstasy that never ceases.

there isn't really any such thing as a subject and an object, there is only oneness.

but for now just try to remember that if God is perfect Love, then He is not anything else, and neither are you. You are, in fact, the Love of God, and your real life is with Him. Like J, you will come to know and experience that God is not outside of you. You will no longer identify yourself with a vulnerable body or anything else that can be limited, and a body is anything that has borders or limits. You will learn instead of your true reality as pure spirit that is invulnerable forever.

You dream of a desert, where mirages are your rulers and tormentors, yet these images come from you.

As was often the case with the ego's script, the plot added up to "damned if you do and damned if you don't.