By William Cooper
- You are a first-generation child of the God of all creation. So, what do you expect you will grow up to be?
- You are material and spiritual in nature. The material part of you is temporary. The spiritual part survives and continues to grow. What you achieve now toward spiritual maturity is real and lasting.
- This life is the important beginning of your eternal career, not a purposeless occurrence.
- We are supposed to be brothers and sisters, partners in each other’s lives. We are supposed to be linked to one another by love, caring and respect.
- Your personal religion should be unique. It should consist in following the leading of your own Spirit Within.
- Life has meaning. We can choose to be an animal or a noble spirit being. The animal part of us will die. The spirit being will live forever.
- It is a great privilege to experience life on such an uncivilized planet. It will help us understand and serve others in our eternal career.
- We can use our creativity to invent ourselves by imagining the best possible behavior and then managing ourselves to display that behavior.
- God is your parent. Children just naturally grow up to be like their parents. In fact they must work hard to avoid it.
- It does not matter how slow you go as long as you do not stop. (Confucius)
- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. (Confucius)
- Inner beauty is far more significant than outer beauty. Inner beauty comes from loving, caring attitudes carried into action.
- Inner beauty, with a little encouragement, grows eternally and lasts forever.
- You can smell beauty from fresh mowed grass, cinnamon, wisteria, yeast bread baking, sea breezes.
- Practice love, forgiveness, service and respect. They will reward you and all who know you.
- Love is the best action and the best reaction, always. Love does good in all circumstances.
- Every living thing and person responds favorably to being loved.
- Love given and love received are both worthy rewards of living. The joy of love given is ours to take by giving service and caring.
- An attitude of persistent, unselfish love works miracles of values transformation and good health in the person holding that attitude.
- Love grows vigorously when its seed takes root in a love hungry soul.
- Love can transform persons, cultures, and even entire planets. If you want a better world, love lavishly.
- With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love. (Rumi)
- Love serves. It does not exploit. Love is gentle, kind, forgiving, merciful and tolerant.
- Despise the sin but love the sinner.
- Respect virtue even in the sinner. It proves the Spirit still dwells within.
- Love disciplines but it does not hurt, harm, or administer vengeance.
- Love should be our universal mode of behavior. It has magical power on personal, social and political levels to achieve things that are super important and which nothing else can achieve.
- Love benefits both the giver and the receiver and even the observer. All feel richer who recognize that the gift of love has been given.
- Love is the way of the Spirit Within.
- Love rules the universe. Inevitably, love will one day rule this world and every heart in it.
- Slay evil with love. Start within.
- Be aggressive and lavish with love.
- It is better to love too much than to love too little.
- Prayer communicates with God. Faith acts according to his leading.
- Pray for spiritual growth (character development) because that is the purpose of life. Learn to cope cheerfully and graciously with disappointment because that is the fast path to spiritual growth.
- You won’t find anything in life that gives you more pleasure than being of service to others.
- While love is the desire to do good for others, service is the action of doing good for others.
- Service is not just an attitude or desire. It is good deeds.
- A lot of little services by many people will do. Serving as you pass by requires only modest levels of planning and commitment.
- A smile, a helping hand, courtesy, good attitude, cheerfulness, polite assistance; these are all services to others requiring no planning and no sacrifice.
- Don’t resist your urges to service when they arise.
- Service is how love gets expressed through action. It is a primary way we develop our connectedness to others through love.
- Service is helping another achieve her worthy needs and goals.
- Service develops friendships. If you want a friend, be a friend.
- To make a friend of someone, find something you know they want and do it for them.
- A few small services by many people does more to improve the world than the dedicated lives of a few saints.
- Service shows actual willingness to give one’s self and assets for the benefit of another.
- Service builds a mutual sense of relatedness on which all sorts of benefits grow.
- Service is a cause of love and it is a consequence of love. Service / love is emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually very powerful, very attractive, and very inspiring.Service is love expressed in action and it participates in the immense magical power of love.
- Service extends the helpful hand of brotherhood and that is important.
- Allowing yourself to seek vengeance or to hold grudges involves great spiritual costs to you and to everyone related to you. And we are all related to you.
- When you forgive another, you relieve yourself of the ugly burden of assessing the guilt and punishment of the offender and of determining how much they must suffer to pay their debt.
- When you forgive, you reopen the possibility of beneficial relationship.
- Forgiveness does not require forgetting. It does require setting aside the desire to punish, to penalize or to even scores. When you forgive, you are saying “Here is a fresh chance to do right.”
- For inner peace and satisfaction, establish a continuous, constant, eternal relationship with your Spirit Within.
- Your thought will be clearer and higher quality if you meditate and think with God.
- The truth response in your heart guides you and counsels you on all things having meaning and value.
- Continual progress toward excellence of character is the objective and purpose of this life. Excellence of character is not completed in this life, but direction can be reliably set.
- The values you actually live by are the building blocks of your character. Your loyalty to your values stabilizes your character. Your disloyalty to your values proves they have not yet become really a part of you.
- Your values are your attitudes and actions you base your life on. They are the way you distinguish and present yourself to the universe.
- Optimism is your ally. What you believe, you might possibly try. What you try, you might possibly achieve. What you do not try, has no chance.
- Your feelings mean something. Examine them.
- Most of the benefits of forgiving flow to the person who forgives. Forgive as much as you can as quick as you can, even when the offender is unworthy or unrepentant.