The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse

When you allow your intellect to direct you rather than simply inform you, it limits what you can see, what you can do, what you can feel, and what you will experience. This is why contemplative practices are so important: they lift you out of your mind (funny—“out of your mind”).

God never gives you more than you can handle.

Compassion will whisper a greater truth, like “No one deserves to be abused, but you will learn from this and will be able to help other people when you’re on the other side of this challenge.”

Every time you focus on an outer want or need, or on somebody else’s business, it’s like throwing a hook out and attaching yourself to the object of your attention.

A PRAYER FOR THE PAST
Let all those who guide me support me in peeling away
whatever it is that keeps me blind to what’s possible,
that keeps me hidden from my greatness,
that keeps me separate from my loved ones
today I ask you to lighten my heart, to lift my burdens,
my worries, my fears, my anxieties, my grief
so that I may know and cherish all that I am
I see it, I feel it, I acknowledge it right now
and so I know that it is

You first lose your freedom when something penetrates your emotional body and affects you so painfully. And you lose again when you decide to hold on to the bad feelings instead of turning them into powerful fuel for the future.

God, grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.

When you transfer your energy to something outside of your own inner world, you’re literally giving away your peace, serenity, and power.

Ironically, though, when you allow yourself to connect to spirit, you want for very little because you’re so rich and filled up inside.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world