Quotes from Gary R. Renard

God's answers are internal, not external. If something shows up in the world it's a symbol. Don't think that God acts in the world; He doesn't. The results of following your guidance can show up in the world as symbols of safety or abundance.

I thought I was good after a few years. After ten years I realized I was still improving.

Let J or the Holy Spirit make your decisions for you whenever you have the time to ask.

Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance?

Like many people, there have been times in your life when you have been concerned about the possibility of going to hell. You didn't realize you were already there. There is an old Hebrew mystical tradition that says hell is distance from God and Heaven is closeness to Him — a thought that is quite valid.

The meaning of love cannot be taught or learned. Love will take care of Itself. Your job, as the Introduction says, is to learn how to remove, along with the Holy Spirit, the blocks to the awareness of the inheritance that you seemingly threw away. The opposite of God and His Kingdom is anything that is not God and His Kingdom, but what is all-encompassing — God — cannot have an opposite.

But if you tell people to choose love instead of fear, they'll think you're telling them to choose their love, and that's not what the Course is teaching. As you will learn, the love of the world and its people is what the Course calls special love,24 and the love of the Holy Spirit is quite a different thing.

They completely overlooked the logic that for God to create the imperfect must either mean that He Himself was imperfect or He deliberately made those who were so they could screw up, be punished by Him, and suffer here on psycho planet.

one of the long-term payoffs of this spiritual path. Even while you still appear to be in your body, it's possible for you to attain psychological invulnerability. As the Course says: The guiltless mind cannot suffer.30 But it takes the illusion of time for you to learn your forgiveness lessons and get to your goal.

a miracle according to the Course being a shift in perception 14 over to the Holy Spirit's way of thinking, and not merely a modification of your own thoughts, forms or circumstances.

As a Sufi Muslim you cultivated within yourself the thought of oneness, or monism, and made progress in experiencing each seemingly separate thing as an illusory veil over the eternal truth. You recognized the reality of God and the unimportance of matter, and one of the verses of the Koran that was the most dear to you was, "All things in creation suffer extinction and there remaineth the face of thy Lord in its majesty and bounty.

We are appearing to you as symbols whose words will help facilitate the disappearance of the universe.

Whatever we think about others is really like sending a message about ourselves to our self. So

Political correctness, no matter how well intentioned, is still an attack on freedom of speech.

The peace of God is the goal of the Course

siempre que quieras ir a casa. J está a la puerta del asilo, llamándote para que salgas y te unas a él, y tú sigues intentando arrastrarle para que vuelva a entrar

recitar oraciones, afirmaciones, renegar de los

One way the Holy Spirit will awaken you is to teach you that what you think is happening is not happening.

life goes on ad nauseam.

and then the incomprehensible power of your mind to make illusions as a perceiver — rather than make spirit as a creator

the world needs another religion like it needs a bigger hole in the ozone layer.

Most people who approach true spiritual mastery are not interested in being leaders. At the same time, there are people who are highly visible when, rather than being true masters of spirituality and metaphysics, they are merely exhibiting the symptoms of an extroverted personality.

Hitler and everyone else in the world, including you, are equally innocent because what you are seeing

knowing the world is an illusion is not enough. The Gnostics and some early Christians called the world a dream; the Hindus call it maya and the Buddhists call it anicca, all meaning pretty much the same thing. But if you don't know the purpose of the dream and how to reinterpret the images you are seeing, which is something we'll get into later, then the general teaching that the world is an illusion is of very limited value.