The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Finally, the Kingdom of God could never be one thing. It had to serve too many purposes and was entangled in too many aspects of traditional religion. I think the only way to solve the riddles posed by the Kingdom of God is to say that God exists in different places depending on your level of consciousness. This becomes critical on the spiritual path, because as your own awareness shifts, God does, too.

Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.

You can align yourself with God-consciousness at any given moment by pursuing these glimpses.

Brooding on your negative traits isn’t going to bring the shadow to light.

To see through the mask of evil, search for the light that is the essence of everything. The fruit of this search is revelation; the light reveals itself of its own accord.

so. How to “Resist Not Evil” Meditation—Sit every day and find the silence inside yourself. In this silence, there is peace without anger. There is no evil, no attachment to revenge or righteous indignation. With practice, you learn to identify yourself with this place. It becomes natural to master anger, an energy like any other. When this happens, evil begins to release you from its hold. Contemplation—The mind plays a large