It’s the realness of life that allows us to live freely and love deeply.

Deep within your soul is the God light of reason. Heed it. So you will be good and do good. Emma Curtis Hopkins

Learn what it means to leave those who would punish you with word or deed to the bitter fruit of their own designs. Let go of the judge in you by recognizing we cannot hold someone's feet to the fire without suffering getting burned ourselves. Guy Finley

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"In time, with practice, you will never cease to think of Him,
and hear His loving Voice guiding your footsteps into quiet ways,
where you will walk in true defenselessness.

 For you will know that Heaven goes with you."

ACIM Lesson 153.18

If suppressing feelings doesn’t work, what does?

The alternative is to distinguish the meanings we have automatically and unconsciously attributed to events, which are the source of our emotions, and then dissolve those meanings. When the source of most of our emotions—namely, the meanings we give events—is dissolved, then the emotions disappear also. How to Stop Suffering: Morty Lefkoe at TEDxHoboken

"Peace to my mind.

Let all my thoughts be still."

ACIM Lesson 221

"The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep." — Willa Cather, My Antonia

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

You do not need to look up to anybody. You do not need to govern anybody. You can have but one Lord, and that is Christ. You can govern only one and that is yourself. Emma Curtis Hopkins

Gemma Stone: Sometimes, really hard things happen in life. If you numb out the difficulty with a bottle of wine, four hours of television, a shopping spree, or working 12 hours a day you’re missing a golden opportunity … to be human. You’re supposed to bump into challenges and get bruised by hard stuff. You’re supposed to feel [  more  ]

  "Time seems to go in one direction,
but when you reach its end
it will roll up like a long carpet
spread along the past behind you,
and will disappear.
As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty
you will walk along this carpet,
believing that it leads to death.
And the journey will seem long
 and cruel and senseless..."

ACIM Ch.13.I.3.5-7

How Elizabeth Gilbert Filled an "Eternal Black Hole of Despair"