A Street Guide to the Higher Power Within Us
1. No matter how well our lives are going, there will be times when we ask
ourselves, "Is that all there is?"
2. When you think the meaning of life has been lost, what you need to find is
yourself.
3. Everyone feels lost and alone at times.
4. The fulfillment we need lies buried deep inside us.
5. Where are you in your life?
6. Why aren't you more like yourself?
7. If we endure the holy insecurities, we can find the higher power within us.
8. No one else can find your higher power for you.
9. When you follow your heart, you will find your way home to your true self and
the people you love.
10. The traveling and the sense of arrival are inseparable.
11. To live your own life, you have to create your own story.
12. If you withdraw from others for a while, you can discover who you are that
they aren't.
13. Making an inner journey is a risky business—it can transform your life.
14. The solitary path to the depth of our souls leads us to the edge of our aloneness
and back to a place among others that is truly our own.
15. Every soul has its own shadow side.
16. In the dark night of our souls, we can begin to see the sparks from the higher
power within.
17. Trying to will ourselves to be different won't work.
18. The only victory lies in surrender to oneself.
19. All of you is worth something, if you will only own it.
20. Accepting our weaknesses frees our strengths.
21. We all experience predicaments that make us feel upset and unprepared.
22. Every crisis presents a crossroads, and paths open up we may never have seen
otherwise.
23. Whether or not life is fair is irrelevant.
24. Asking, "Why me?" is useless. The only question that counts is, "Where do I go
from here?"
25. What if God doesn't want us to be caged in our lusts, but to be free in them?
26. Then whatever goes on in our imaginations is nobody else's business.
27. We want so much to seem normal and nice, we're tempted to hide the very
things that make us singular.
28. The false images we create to conceal our real selves from others may fool
ourselves as well.
29. Until we realize that the monster of others' expectations is just a paper tiger,
we remain threatened by their concepts of who we ought to be.
