Michael Bernard Beckwith

The transition from the egoic self to the Authentic Self requires discipline... The good news is that discipline eventually becomes what I call a 'blissipline' because it leads to playing our part with integrity, dignity, elegance, passion, and deep contentment.

... learn how to ultimately tell the difference between your ego personality that is seeking to survive and avoid being hurt and your character that seeks to confidently deliver your talents, gifts, and skills.

Michael Bernard BeckwithKeeping our hearts and minds free of the debris of resentment and animosity is vital to our spiritual awakening

A cosmic celebration can be localized within you when you realize that life is not a problem to be solved but a magnificent mystery to be lived.

When you know that you are the beloved of the universe, then all of the energy that you have been using to convince the external world of who you are will now be yours to use for the beauty of simply being yourself just as you are.

We are unbounded potential waiting to be realized.

We don’t need to tell God about our big problem; we tell our problem about our big God!

Consciously circulate life-energy in the world, which means expressing kindness, encouragement, compassion, and sharing of your financial resources.

By not biting the bait of societal myths about perfection, you will reveal your own unique character.

You are not here to merely survive but to soar, to express and release the dynamic power of consciousness residing at the deepest center of your being.

Surrender is a bold spiritual stance, the stance of a spiritual warrior, because what we are surrendering to is the next stage of our evolution.

The choice is yours to remain under the tyranny of trends or do the inner work necessary to enter the consciousness of beholding your Authentic Self.

The freedom of discipline means that you agree to free yourself from the limitation of playacting the roles assigned to you by society, family, religion, and education and accept the part that has been written for you since the beginning of time: being your Self.

An enlightened society can only be created by awakened beings.

A healthy ego focuses on creativity rather than competition.

It’s worth repeating that the main point is to start right where you are, confident that you are not alone in your journey, that you are accompanied by an Ineffable Presence called grace.

What we “should” be is pumped into us from outside sources. What we are meant to be is already living at our center and is what we are seeking to discover through the Visioning Process.

Visioning is the means and authentic self-expression is the end.

Getting in the gratitude groove softens the heart, opens the mind, causing even seemingly ordinary things to become sacred.

Embarking on the journey to self-discovery involves your willingness to endure some perspiration as well as inspiration.

The paradox is that it takes some doing to get to authentic being!

To surrender is to yield to the next stage of our evolution. It is saying, ‘I’m available to what wants to evolve and emerge through me and I’m willing to practice and embody what it takes for it to do so.’

This is the crux of what it means to be a spiritual being having a human incarnation: to discover, accept, and express our inheritance of oneness with Source and channel its essence of excellence as we deliver our gifts, talents, and skills in the world.

There’s no race to the finish line; we all evolve according to our own unique pattern of unfoldment and, although it can be accelerated, it cannot be forced.

We can’t feel the wetness of water by looking at photographs of water; we must immerse ourselves in it. We can’t feel the ecstasy of awakened awareness through reading about it; we must find it in our innermost Self.

Consciously circulate life- energy in the world, which means expressing kindness, encouragement, compassion, and sharing of your financial resources.

As the saying goes, ‘God doesn’t provide the vision without the provision.'