There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If we trust ourselves, we know how to avoid interfering with nature and how to live in harmony. When we know God as an unseen, loving, and accepting power at the heart of everything, allowing us to make our own choices, then God is a trusted part of our nature.
Interpretation
Trusting in our innate nature and divine connection leads to harmony with the world.
Wayne Dyer's quote emphasizes the importance of trusting our inherent human nature, which is intertwined with the divine. When we recognize that we are part of a greater spiritual force that allows us freedom of choice, we can live in harmony with ourselves and the world around us, avoiding conflict with nature and promoting a peaceful existence.
In practice
During a meditation workshop, to illustrate the importance of inner trust and connection to the divine.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything...
Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.
Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
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