The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.

Inspiration is what keeps us well.

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish.

The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we’re going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We’re living life in a more deliberate way. We don’t want to miss a single important event. We don’t want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.

the health of the body is determined to a great degree by our mental processes: what we think of life and especially of ourselves, at both the conscious and the unconscious levels.

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.

I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal... in league with the devil himself.

Because, again, very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life—fears

We’re already living in the information age. Everyone will have to educate themselves the best they can, become an expert in some niche, so that they can be in the right place to advise someone else or perform some other service. The more technical the automation becomes, and the more quickly the world changes, the more we need information from just the right person arriving in our lives at just the right time. You don’t need a formal education to do that; just a niche you’ve created for yourself through self-education.

creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we’re alive, and we’re going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can’t know.

that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.

Only individual opinions are fixed and dogmatic.

because blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

In a world where the people are numbed and distracted, the only thing that sells is the unbelievable.