Short Bob Quotes and Notes on Spirituality Part 1

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Growing in spirituality means having a deeper realization of your needfor God.

Insecurity and fear come because others do judge and criticize us, and

that hurts. We judge others in the way we fear others will judge us, orin the way we judge ourselves. By judging others, it gives us the powerwe lose from being judged and criticized by others or ourselves.

People use religion for ego power and ego security. It breeds guilt andcompetition just like the work/school/family/friends world.

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Teaching the Faith doesn’t always mean converting people.

People don’t like to feel painful feelings. They use materialism as anescape from unpleasant feelings. They don’t admit that they feeldisconnected from God and are materialistic: relying on job, money,house, family, people for comfort and security.

We say the world is a mess. God says yes, it’s a mess, but it’s a perfect

mess.

There is nothing but God-goo surrounding you.

You can’t be attached to the teaching work, your understanding of theprocess of spiritual growth, your understanding of anything, the workof helping people, your accomplishments, your knowledge, any person,your thoughts or feelings. Just cling to Baha’u’llah—attach to Him only. Then you will know selfless love. No one can generate or produce

selfless love, obviously. We must untangle from our attachments first,otherwise it will always be selfish love. To the extent we are detachedfrom this world is the extent to which we can love others.

Your spirituality is different from your worthiness. Not everyone isspiritual, but everyone is worthy.



I want someone who is made happy by my presence, and whosepresence makes me happy.

You must let yourself feel the pain of God’s judgments (or theconsequences of your actions) in order for it to work as a deterrent forfuture wrong actions. If you numb your pain, you won’t learn or growfrom your mistakes. If the pain is not a result of wrong action orpersonal weakness, then the suffering is a test from God for the growthof your soul. Either way, suffering is a beneficial test from God. But if we numb the pain, repress it, or escape into material pleasures, we willlose the opportunity for human depth, relationship, love, connection,compassion, as well as spiritual growth, love, unity, closeness to God,love for God, feeling God’s love, healing, mercy, and compassion.

People believe in and trust in human love, but not in God’s love, eventhough God created humans, and He is the Originator and Author of love, and His love is infinitely greater than any human’s love.

You play their game to escape from your pain.

We need to shed the husks of ego patterns, and reveal the vulnerablestuff inside—then shed that husk.

We don’t know our destiny; we can’t figure out our destiny. God doeswhat He wills. All we can do is use our gifts and talents to serve Him bysurrendering our all to Him, and by making choices in life that conformto the best understanding of His Word. His destiny for us is that wecompletely trust in Him, and entrust our future to Him without knowingwhat will come of it.

If everything God did seemed outwardly just, then we could never have

the opportunity to exercise our faith in Him.

Most people have a negative relationship to suffering. We want to tryto have a positive relationship to it by embracing it and seeing howGod uses suffering to help us grow spiritually and reach out for Hislove. It also helps us to forge bonds of love with others, and itpromotes detachment from worldly things.



When you become emotionally dependent on someone, it produces asense of expectation and entitlement from the person. When you don’tget what you want from the person, you may get angry with them

because you think they owe it to you—but that is just coming fromyour attachment to them and lack of connection with God’s love.

The more you get hurt, the more your heart breaks open—the greatermeasure of love you can receive from God as you turn to Him forcomfort.

Human beings are like flowers. We need to be continually derivingsustenance from the soil of our trust in God, and opening up our hearts

to the sun of His grace and love.

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