The surrendered body-mind is a vehicle for God within to experience and express through

• The body-mind is the infinite having a finite experience. Leo Hartong
• Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe. Frederick Lenz
• Let God worry about your survival. If it serves the Self to dump the body, so let it be. David R. Hawkins
• Operationally, the body could be viewed as a temporary ‘space probe’ of the linear dimension. David R. Hawkins
• The spiritual creature having need of a body is God. The spiritual creature living in a body is us. Bernard Haisch
• Each person’s life – each life form, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. Eckhart Tolle
• The whole physical and nonphysical universe is the “body” that the Creator uses to experience itself from an infinite number of perspectives. Ziad Masri
• The physical body is a manifestation of the One Self who, in experiencing this dimension, had temporarily forgotten its reality, thus permitting the illusion of a three-dimensional world. David R. Hawkins
• The spiritual creature which we are has need of a body, without which it could nowise attain that knowledge which it obtains as the only approach to those things, by knowledge of which it is made blessed. Bernard of Clairvaux (12th-century French abbot)
• Now I will explain to you the ultimate mystery: your exact and true relationship to Me. YOU ARE MY BODY. As your body is to your mind and soul, so, too, are you to My mind and soul. Therefore: Everything I experience, I experience through you. Neale Donald Walsch
• The mind is a device for Consciousness to experience a world of form. And it’s been created especially for that including its mind patterns and identity creation. Anthony Lambert
• The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the body and mind, the trees could not see themselves. Usually we think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree does not get to see itself. We are sensing instruments of the Divine. Adyashanti
• Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument. Vishnudevananda Saraswati
• When the mind of the human form lets go of thought and pure awareness emerges, it is God that wakes up through the form and becomes aware of itself through “you”. When the mind lets go and there is a deep sense of wonder and love for it all, it is God itself delighting in the world through “you”.  When the mind lets go and creativity and inspiration flows, it is God itself creating through “you”.  When the mind lets go, and there is a recognition of the infinite depth and sacredness in another, it is God delighting in the loving recognition of itself in another form.  When the mind lets go and the heart opens in love, it is the life affirming and healing energy of God that flows into the world though “you”.   Anthony Lambert

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Allow God to live in you as you…

• God dwells within you as you. Swami Muktananda
• Let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart
• What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life. Rumi
• Truth wants nothing more than to live through you! Shelly Bullard
• It is not so much that you are God — it is that God is you. Alan H. Dawe
• Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? A Course in Miracles
• God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you. Meister Eckhart
• Source not only resides in us, but is Us. Source, God, Universe, whatever your choice of Name is, it’s all the same. In the inception of the Universe, Source became curious and chose to make Itself vulnerable to the experiences of Its choosing. Hillis Pugh
• The universe is living through you at this moment. With or without belief in god. Deepak Chopra
• I live, yet not I, but Christ – the eternal Logos – liveth in me. St. Paul
• ‘I live, yet not I, but Christ in me.’ Or perhaps it might be more accurate to use the verb transitively and say, ‘I live, yet not I; for it is the Logos who lives me – lives me as an actor lives his part. In such a case, of course, the actor is always infinitely superior to the role. Aldous Huxley
• When we stop playing God, God can play through us. Julia Cameron
• Life is a process of entering into God. Swami Krishnananda
• Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart. Teresa of Avila
• Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me. Meister Eckhart
• The Christ in you is very still. He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. A Course in Miracles
• The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity. Edgar Cayce
• We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives. Eric Ludy
• You should know (God) without image, unmediated and without likeness. But if I am to know God without mediation in such a way, then “I” must become “he”, and “he” must become “I”. More precisely I say: God must become me and I must become God, so entirely one that “he” and this “I” become one “is” and act in this “isness” as one, for this “he” and this “I”, that is God and the soul, are very fruitful. Meister Eckhart

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…allowing God to experience and explore through you…

• Our purpose is to be God’s eyes, ears, and minds, its instruments for exploring and understanding itself. Brendan Punsky
• Join me as I explore the handiwork of an extremely ingenious God who, nevertheless, can only experience material reality by living in and through us and all beings everywhere. Bernard Haisch
• Life is an endless experience of God’s. Frederick Lenz
• God has the experience that comes from billions of years. James Cook
• We are embodied aspects of Brahman experiencing Itself. Sri Aurobindo
• The main purpose that God-Consciousness has for His universe is experience. Alan H. Dawe
• Who exactly is the ultimate experiencer — the Self or the Unknown? The Self, of course. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Life is an endless experience of God’s. God doesn’t even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms. Frederick Lenz
• We are God-Consciousness incarnate. That we are individual expressions of God-Consciousness, each having our own experiences, and that having those experiences is the purpose of life. Alan H. Dawe
• Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging judge in robes.  Richard Grossinger
• Creation is about Absolute Pure Consciousness, or God, coming into the Experience of Life as we know it. The Void itself is devoid of experience. It is pre-life, before the first vibration. Godhead is about more than Life and Death. Therefore there is even more than Life and Death to experience in the Universe! Mellen-Thomas Benedict
• God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity. Peter Altenberg
• We are all God, Godding – experiencing Our Self through the experiencing of Our parts. We are God expressing Our Self. Neale Donald Walsch
• Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a sensory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form. Adyashanti
• Essentially man is not the mind but the Self or Atman. The Atman is ever free, infinite and eternal. It is pure consciousness. In man, the free agent is not the mind but the Self. Mind is, as it were, an instrument in the Self’s hands, through which the Self apprehends and responds to the external world.  This instrument with which the Self comes in contact with the external world is itself constantly changing and vacillating. When the vacillating instrument is made motionless, it can reflect the Atman.  Swami Budhananda

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…and express through you

• Consciousness is the intelligence, the organizing principle behind the arising of form. Consciousness has been preparing forms for millions of years so that it can express itself through them in the manifested. Eckhart Tolle
• The brain does not create consciousness, but consciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression. Eckhart Tolle
• Consciousness needs a vehicle and an instrument for its manifestation. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom. Paramahansa Yogananda
• When I no longer confuse who I am with a temporary form of “me,” then the dimension of the limitless and the eternal—God—can express itself through “me” and guide “me.” Eckhart Tolle
• Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God. Thomas G. Bandy
• Divine Consciousness is constantly seeking ways to express itself through us. Sonia Choquette
• I could only believe in a God who could dance… And now a God dances through me. Friedrich Nietzsche
• God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. Miguel Angel Ruiz
• As God is the Essence of our own being, we cannot truly express ourselves until we learn to manifest His presence within us. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Our ultimate destiny is to re-connect with our essential Being and express from our extraordinary, divine reality in the ordinary physical world, moment by moment. Russell E. Dicarlo

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Become an instrument for God

• We are all but instruments of God. Stonewall Jackson
• We are all pencils in the hand of God. Mother Teresa
• We are all strings in the concert of God’s joy. Jakob Bohme
• God has His own way of choosing His instruments. Mahatma Gandhi
• Be an instrument, a multiplier of God’s blessings. Robert Muller
• We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works. Martin Luther
• There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God’s hands. Dwight L. Moody
• You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change. Louis Farrakhan
• God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them. Bob Goff
• Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God. Radhanath Swami
• To feel one’s faculties expanding the soul is one of life’s most sublime experiences. David McKay
• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi
• God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself. Mahatma Gandhi
• God is always working through you; the important thing is to become conscious and co-operate. Mother Meera
• Do all you can to awaken to God within you so the form you take can become an instrument for God’s grace. Anthony Lambert
• Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will. C. Sproul
• No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is. Sheri L. Dew
• Man is merely an instrument, and the Lord is the operator. Blessed is he through whom the Lord gets His Work done.  Swami Turiyananda
• The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again. Nirmala Srivastava
• Lord God…use me as Your instrument — but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all. Martin Luther
• Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor. Pope Francis
• If it serves Providence, this bodily life continues, and if it does not, then it ceases. The eventuality is up to the Presence. David R. Hawkins
• As the God you are within form wakes up from a dream, the form you take becomes a beautiful instrument for God’s grace to flow through it. Anthony Lambert
• I had no personal life—my personal will no longer existed. I was an instrument of the Infinite Presence, and I went about and did as it willed. David R. Hawkins
• You have been created by God and for God and someday you will stand amazed at the simple yet profound ways he has used you even when you weren’t aware of it. Kay Arthur
• God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages. A. B. Simpson
• I order you to remain simply either in God or close to God, without trying to do anything there, and without asking anything of Him, unless He urges it. St. Franfois de Sales
• Become an instrument for love, healing, peace, joy, wonder and inspiration. Become a Space for the grace of God to flow into the world and bless all living beings. Anthony Lambert
• Prayer is the link between God’s inexhaustible resources and people’s needs…God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. Charles Stanley
• The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. Emmet Fox
• If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way. Mahatma Gandhi
• But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here. Paulo Coelho
• The goal marked out for us and the call upon us is to grow into the image of God, to dwell in Him and with Him and be a channel of His joy and might and an instrument of His works. Sri Aurobindo
• True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God. Sri Chinmoy
• We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully. Jack Canfield
• Real religion is not about being a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. Real religion is about loving God, and dedicating ones life to be an instrument of Gods compassion, kindness towards other living beings. Radhanath Swami
• He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God’s hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things; but he who acts otherwise can never do any good. Paul of the Cross
• When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement. Peace Pilgrim
• Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be. Oscar Romero
• Be willing to be used by God; be willing to be used by Truth. Be willing to be an instrument through which Truth reveals Itself, but do not attempt to use God. Never try to use God, Truth. If you understood the nature of God, never would you pray to God for any thing. Joel S. Goldsmith
• I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me.  I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me.  I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me.  I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal. A Course in Miracles
• God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength? Charles Spurgeon
• Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God’s hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to grasp the significance of ‘all is His’. and you will immediately feel free from all burdens. What will be the result of your surrender to Him? None will seem alien, all will be your very own Self. Anandamayi Ma
• God is the Inner Ruler. He goads the body, mind and senses to work. Become an instrument in the hands of the Lord. Do not expect thanks or appreciation of your work. Do actions as your duty and offer them and their fruits to the Lord. You will be freed from the bonds of Karma. Your heart will soon be purified. Swami Chidananda
• You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you. Abraham Verghese
• The most fulfilling experience possible through the human form is to become an instrument for God to experience and express through. God, when awake in a human form, expresses through the form, like music from a flute, as a flow of love, peace, creativity, joy, wonder etc. and in so doing greatly blesses the experience God is having through multiple other forms too. Anthony Lambert
• Become an instrument for God to experience life directly, undistorted by the lens of mind forms. Become an instrument for God to delight directly in the beauty and wonder of this world of form. Become an instrument for God’s healing energy to flow into the world as love, peace and joy.  Become an instrument for God to create, tapped into a divine flow of inspiration and creativity.  Anthony Lambert
• God, please use me” is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker’s prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it’s already been given you. The fact that you’re alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you’re a vessel of God. Don’t worry about what to say or what to do. He’ll let you know. Marianne Williamson
• I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do – using me as an instrument. I believe that anyone who is fully surrendered to God’s will can be used gloriously – and will really know some things – and will probably be called self-righteous. You’re called self-righteous if you are self-centered enough to think you know everything – but you may also be called self-righteous by the immature if you are God-centered enough to really know some things. Peace Pilgrim
• During the years spent in inner silence, the strength of the Presence grew. Life was no longer personal; a personal will no longer existed. The personal “I” had become an instrument of the Infinite Presence and went about and did as it was willed. People felt an extraordinary peace in the aura of that Presence. Seekers sought answers but as there was no longer any such individual as David, they were actually finessing answers from their own Self, which was not different from mine. From each person the same Self shone forth from their eyes. David R. Hawkins

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Become the eyes of God…

• The eye of God is inside us. It’s looking through us and it sees whatever we look at. Sometimes I think we could give God better things to look at, don’t you? Frederick Lenz
• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. Meister Eckhart
• The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. Meister Eckhart
• We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody’s eyes, you’re looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self. Alan Watts
• The supreme being is looking from everyone’s eyes. Mooji
• Awareness is the sight in all eyes and the ‘person’ is the way Awareness sees from a certain perspective. Leo Hartong
• God’s purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye…  Rumi

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…and the hands of God…

• The hand that held the pen was an implement too, and the brain that controlled the hand. They were intermediaries, instruments, just apparatus. Leo Hartong
• God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God’s. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe … Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind. Lawrence Kushner
• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ. George Bernard Shaw
• We often talk about how we are God’s “hands and feet,” which is true. That being said, we can’t fall into the trap of thinking God needs us like we need Him. He’s God – which makes the reality that He wants to use us and be in relationship with us an even sweeter, more profound truth. Mark Hart
• Only kindness matters. We are God’s hands.  Jewel

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…and the ears and voice of God

• When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee.   Jakob Bohme

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Allow God to use the mind

• The mind that serves spirit is invulnerable. A Course in Miracles
• The mind is an instrument for God. Empty it so God’s inspiration and intelligence can flow through. Anthony Lambert
• Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. The only limit put on its choice is that it cannot serve two masters. If it elects to do so, the mind can become the medium by which spirit creates along the line of its own creation. If it does not freely elect to do so, it retains its creative potential but places itself under tyrannous rather than Authoritative control. As a result it imprisons, because such are the dictates of tyrants. To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true Authority. A Course in Miracles
• The miracle joins in the Atonement by placing the mind in the service of the Holy Spirit. This establishes the proper function of the mind and corrects its errors, which are merely lacks of love. A Course in Miracles
• Whenever you are afraid you are deceived, and your mind cannot serve the Holy Spirit. A Course in Miracles

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The purer we become, the more God is able to be God through us

• As the soul becomes more pure and bare and poor, and possesses less of created things, and is emptied of all things that are not God, it receives God more purely, and is more completely in Him; and it truly becomes comes one with God, and it looks into God and God into it, face to face as it were; two images transformed into one…. Meister Eckhart
• The purified mind is the faithful servant of the self. It takes charge of the instruments, inner and outer, and makes them serve their purpose. Nisargadatta Mahara

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The more we surrender, the more God can do through us

• For this form to be an instrument of love and beauty, I must surrender to my true Being. Anthony Lambert
• The essence of surrender is getting out of God’s way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us. W. Tozer
• The basic lesson that each Religion teaches is to surrender to the sovereign-will of God and leave the consequences of deeds, well done, to the Lord Himself. It is His will and your only duty is to shape yourself into a fit instrument. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself. Marion Woodman
• Stay as the mind and say “Your will Life.” In reality, there is no separate self with a mind; there is only God.  However, this works to allow God You are to gain power over the body mind. Anthony Lambert

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The more we awaken, the more God’s power flows through us

• After a spiritual awakening occurs, what naturally follows is called: embodiment. Embodiment is when the awakened sense of self (or awareness of yourself as love) starts to settle-in and live through you; bringing the awareness of oneness back into your body, life, relationship; everything you do. Shelly Bullar
• Each of us is here to discover our higher self or our spiritual self. We must find out for ourself that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity. Deepak Chopra
• Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it. Swami Vivekananda
• Practice stillness and presence and let go of all identification with thought. In so doing, you become the formless space in which all experiences of form arise and subside. You realise you are that aware Space.  The illusion that you are a separate self falls away.  You awaken to the extraordinary realisation you are nothing less than God having an experience of life through the form you take.  You realise you are one with everyone and everything for all forms are an expression of God and contain God.  This is not a conceptual realisation but a direct knowing.  A direct experience of the heart and soul.  A state of being that emerges in which all shame and pride fall away to create an exquisite sense of freedom.  Anthony Lambert
• All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs through us. Sannyas means to let this understanding become the foundation of your life: We are not, God is. Let the ego disappear, evaporate, and you will find infinite contentment. With the ego there is only misery; without the ego there is only God; and God is bliss, and God is benediction, and God is ecstasy. Die to the ego so that God can live in you. Rajneesh
• Then let the Son of God awaken from his sleep, and opening his holy eyes return again to bless the world he made. In error it began. But it will end in the reflection of his holiness. And he will sleep no more and dream of death. A Course in Miracles

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Surrender and allow God’s will to be done through you

• All real pleasure comes from doing God’s Will. This is because not doing it is a denial of Self.  A Course in Miracles
• Everything is the will of God – we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept. Frederick Lenz
• With progression of consciousness from selfishness to selflessness, the quality of prayer shifts to the willingness to be a servant of the Lord and a channel of His Will without trying to specify the what or the how it is to be done. David R. Hawkins
• I am happy doing only God’s will; serving Him who is residing for a time in this body, and who is in the forms of all.” So this is a different aspect of devotion: To do everything completely detached, while striving and enjoying only to do the will of God. Even if anything untoward happens to the body, the devotee is anxious to make it right only because God is in that bodily temple. Paramahansa Yogananda
• You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. Rick Warren
• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God’s will in us. Teresa of Avila
• Passivity, not activity; relaxation, not intentness, should be now the rule. Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all, and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing. William James
• There is no question but one you should ever ask of yourself: Do I want to know my Father’s Will for me?’  A Course in Miracles

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Allow universal intelligence to take over your life and bless the world

• Artistic creation, sports, dance, teaching, counseling — mastery in any field of endeavor implies that the thinking mind is either no longer involved at all or at least is taking second place. A power and intelligence greater than you and yet one with you in essence takes over. There is no decision-making process anymore; spontaneous right action happens, and “you” are not doing it. Mastery of life is the opposite of control. You become aligned with the greater consciousness. It acts, speaks, does the works. Eckhart Tolle

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Allow God to unfold his purpose through you

• When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren’t. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose-which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint. Deepak Chopra
• Let the God within you express itself through you in the world without. Charles Fillmore
• It is through the world and ultimately through you that the Unmanifested knows itself. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are! Eckart Tolle
• Consciousness wants to wake up through form and bless the world. Anthony Lambert
• There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.  Deepak Chopra
• Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God’s work, peacefully and harmoniously. Wayne Dyer
• Before you choose to do anything, ask me if your choice is in accord with mine. If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear. A Course in Miracles 
• Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose – seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone. Philip Gulley

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Ask what life wants from you

• Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?’ a more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me? Eckhart Tolle
• Don’t ask what is the meaning of life, but what is life asking of me. Victor Frankl
• To discover what your purpose is, all you need do is ask one question: “How is Life calling me to serve it?” If you hold this question in your heart, eventually the answer will come to you much clearer than if you try to figure it out using your mind. Michael Jeffreys

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Make service to God your primary motive

• Use your body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• While the functions continue to function, it is now seen that they have always been engaged not for a personal purpose, but to do whatever the vastness deems obvious in the service of freedom. The vastness has its own non-personal desire to perceive itself directly through itself using the circuitry of every human being.   Suzanne Segal
• Make it your goal to serve and love God, rather than to attain enlightenment. David R. Hawkins
• Out of an unrestricted love for God arises the willingness to surrender all motives except to serve God completely. To be the servant of God becomes one’s goal rather than enlightenment. To be a perfect channel for God’s love is to surrender completely and to eliminate the goal seeking of the spiritual ego. Joy itself becomes the initiator of further spiritual work. David R. Hawkins
• Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty. Corrie Ten Boom
• His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal. If I cannot act – if I refuse to act – that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is to live. Fully and with my whole heart. With this knowledge comes a true understanding of all the gifts He has given me. L. LaFevers
• One makes a gift of one’s life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, devotion, and selfless service. That is the way of the heart to God. David R. Hawkins
• If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love. Marianne Williamson
• It is within my power either to serve God, or not to serve Him. Serving Him I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create. Leo Tolstoy
• The dedicated ever enjoy Supreme Peace. Therefore, live only to serve. Swami Satchidananda

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Allow consciousness to flow through you into the world …

• Your inner purpose is to allow consciousness to arise through being present in the moment. Eckhart Tolle
• The Universe is saying: Allow me to flow through you unrestricted and you will see the greatest magic you have ever seen. Klaus Joehle
• Although the fullness of consciousness is already there as the unmanifested, we are here to bring consciousness into this dimension. Eckhart Tolle
• Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness. Richard Rohr
• In any situation and in whatever you do, your state of consciousness is the primary factor; the situation and what you do is secondary. Eckhart Tolle
• Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing. Eckhart Tolle
• Consciousness flows through you into this world. It flows into your thoughts and inspires them. It flows into what you do and guides and empowers it. Eckhart Tolle
• 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. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Consciousness is the intelligence, the organizing principle behind the arising of form.
• “Emitting energy” can be such an abstract term to get a hold of, but if we imagine that our consciousness has a fragrance, if we visualize that our words, our gaze, our thoughts have a scent, then the concept starts to land. And then maybe we become more aware of what we’re emanating — or what’s left behind after we leave the room. Danielle LaPorte
• The outer purpose of the universe is to create form and experience the interaction of forms—the play, the dream, the drama, or whatever you choose to call it. Its inner purpose is to awaken to its formless essence. Then comes the reconciliation of outer and inner purpose: to bring that essence—consciousness—into the world of form and thereby transform the world. Eckhart Tolle

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…bringing consciousness into all you do…

• Be true to life by being true to your inner purpose. As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. At first there may be no noticeable change in what you do—only the how changes. Your primary purpose is now to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. Eckhart Tolle
• When Saint Francis of Assisi says, “If God can work through me, he can work through anyone,” he is uttering the truth about how pure consciousness enters the world: through each of us. No one is bound to the same creative path. Saint Francis chose to fashion his experience along the lines of humility, celibacy, charity, and devotion. Michelangelo chose art, beauty, nobility, and grandeur. These are all qualia, and so are the ingredients that go into all experiences. Deepak Chopra

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…allowing consciousness to shine through you…

• Opening yourself to the emerging consciousness and bringing its light into this world then becomes the primary purpose of your life. Not your aims or your actions are primary, but the state of consciousness out of which they come. Eckhart Tolle
• The reason an enlightened person shines with an inner light is that pure consciousness shines through the form. And its perfume is love, joy, healing and intelligence. Anthony Lambert

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… thus, bringing the spiritual power of God into the world

• Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world. Eckhart Tolle
• The great central fact in human life is the coming into a conscious vital realisation of our oneness with this Infinite Life and the opening of ourselves fully to this divine inflow. In just the degree that we come into a conscious realisation of our oneness with the Infinite Life, and open ourselves to this divine inflow, do we actualise in ourselves the qualities and powers of the Infinite Life, do we make ourselves channels through which the Infinite Intelligence and Power can work. In just the degree in which you realise your oneness with the Infinite Spirit, you will exchange dis-ease for ease, inharmony for harmony, suffering and pain for abounding health and strength. To recognise our own divinity, and our intimate relation to the Universal, is to attach the belts of our machinery to the powerhouse of the Universe. One need remain in hell no longer than one chooses to; we can rise to any heaven we ourselves choose; and when we choose so to rise, all the higher powers of the Universe combine to help us heavenward. William James
• Opening yourself to the emerging consciousness and bringing its light into this world then becomes the primary purpose of your life. Not your aims or your actions are primary, but the state of consciousness out of which they come. Eckart Tolle
• 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. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Now glory be to God, who by his mighty power at work within us is able to do far more than we would ever dare to ask or even dream of – infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, or hopes. Ephesians 3:20

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Become empty so you can be a vessel for God

• If God is going to be all that He is, I must reach a point where I am emptied of all that I am. It’s only then that the fullness of God has space in the emptiness of me. Craig D. Lounsbrough
• A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it. Hildegard of Bingen
• God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels Kathryn Kuhlman
• I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one. Dag Hammarskjold
• God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them. S. Lewis
• Our willingness to be used as God’s vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world. Floyd McClung
• Our willingness to be used as God’s vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world. Floyd McClung
• When you’re full of yourself, God can’t fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel. Max Lucado
• God pours His oil into clean vessels! -Jentezen Franklin
• God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one’s activities. Sri Aurobindo
• God, please use me” is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker’s prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it’s already been given you. The fact that you’re alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you’re a vessel of God. Don’t worry about what to say or what to do. He’ll let you know. Marianne Williamson
• The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory. Andrew Murray
• The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels. Kathryn Kuhlman
• God doesn’t seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. Dwight L. Moody
• God is the water, and you are the faucet. Marianne Williamson

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Become a channel for God…

• God created us to be channels of blessing, but our ability to receive the resources with which He wants us to bless others, depends on our being able to give then away – freely, faithfully, generously. Jack W. Hayford
• Let us be renewed by God’s mercy … and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish. Pope Francis
• God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity. Billy Graham
• What I walk on is not the energy of youth, it is a better energy. I walk on the endless energy of inner peace that never runs out! When you become a channel through which God works there are no more limitations, because God does the work through you: you are the instrument – and what God can do is unlimited. When you are working for God you do not find yourself striving and straining. You find yourself calm, serene and unhurried. Peace Pilgrim
• It is because he has purged himself of selfness that divine Reality is able to use him as a channel of grace and power. Aldous Huxley
• Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus – to that degree I can channel God’s life to others. Louie Giglio
• Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open. Henry David Thoreau
• Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer. Elisabeth Elliot
• The purpose of God’s blessing is to enable you to be a great channel of blessing to others. If you have nothing, there is nothing you can do for anyone else; if you have a little, you can only help a little; but if you have plenty, there is a whole lot you can do. When you are blessed, you have a mighty foundation from which to impact others. You are blessed to be a blessing. Brian Houston
• To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self is to keep yourself aware, alert and sensitive to the beauty and wonder of life. God’s love will flow through you into the world when you are open. You enlarge the dimensions of your life when you keep yourself open to the highest and best. The key to God’s infinite riches is within you; open yourself and you will receive. Wilferd Peterson
• When real music comes to me – the music of the spheres, the music that surpasses understanding – that has nothing to do with me, cause I’m just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium… those moments are what I live for. John Lennon
• When the dream in our heart is one that God has planted there, a strange happiness flowers into us. At that moment all of the spiritual resources of the universe are released to help us. Our praying is then at one with the will of God and becomes a channel for the Creator’s always joyous, triumphant purposes for us and our world. Catherine Marshall
• When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God’s best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you. Joel Osteen

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…especially a channel for God’s love…

• Let God love you through others and let God love others through you. M. Street
• Q: What prayers are useful? A: Ask to be the servant of the Lord, a vehicle of divine love, a channel of God’s will. Ask for direction and divine assistance and surrender all personal will through devotion. Dedicate one’s life to the service of God. Choose love and peace above all other options. Commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for all life in all its expression and surrender all judgment to God. David R. Hawkins
• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung
• Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we’re so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act. Ram Dass
• As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God’s love to come to me. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty and opportunity you put into my life. And in all that I do, I shall seek to be a channel for your love. Susan Jeffers
• Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God’s desperate intent that we love each other. Ruby Dee
• We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called. Albert Schweitzer
• I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa
• The art of love is God at work through you. Wilferd Peterson
• There is no one in the world who cannot arrive without difficulty at the most eminent perfection by fulfilling with love obscure and common duties. J. P. de Caussade
• We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God’s love and above all, to enter into the Kingdom of God. Nirmala Srivastava

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…and God’s compassion…

• We must be instruments of God’s compassion to those who are suffering. Radhanath Swami

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…and God’s light…

• As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. Marianne Williamson
• So a man must be pervaded with the divine presence, and be shaped through and through with the form of the God he loves, and be present in Him, so that God’s presence may shine out to him without any effort. Meister Eckhart
• You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light that God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours. A Course in Miracles

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… and in so doing, create beautiful moments of grace

• My moments of awakening can come at any time, and through any person. These are my moments of grace, when clarity and wisdom, love and understanding, guidance and insight are brought to me and through me. My life has been created to bring me just such moments. That is why I do whatever it takes – meditate, exercise, pray, read, write, listen to music, whatever I find works – to ignite my awareness daily. Neale Donald Walsch
• Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• I remember I am simply using illusions to create a localised contextual field within which I can experience, and not merely conceptualise, any one of the myriad aspects of Who I Am. I use this contextual field like an artist using a paint brush, producing wonderful pictures and creating powerful and extraordinary moments – moments of grace – in which I may know myself experientially. Neale Donald Walsch
• The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared. Lloyd John Ogilvie
• Just ask, “What would love do now?” Neal Donald Walsch
• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. Karl Barth
• We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments. Kent Nerburn
• Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt
• The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situation.  It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there.  We catch it if we are people of discernment.  Lewis B. Smedes

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Become a hole in God’s flute…

• A flute with no holes is not a flute. Matsuo Basho
• God is the breath moving through a cosmic flute and each living form is a hole in that flute, each providing its own unique note. Anthony Lambert
• God, when awake in a human form, expresses through the form, like music from a flute, as a flow of love, peace, creativity, joy and wonder and in so doing, greatly blesses the world. Anthony Lambert
• I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through listen to this music. Haziz
• master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. Rabindranath Tagore
• The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute? Rumi
• The flute does not take credit for the music. So the mind cannot take credit for what comes through it.  Anthony Lambert
• The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love. Kabir
• The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer! Rumi
• The world is a cosmic flute of infinite proportion and each living form is a hole in that flute. The greater your surrender, the more the space you are opens up and the purer the note. The hole may think it’s creating the music and take credit for it.  But then the hole clogs up and the note loses its purity. Anthony Lambert
• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. Rabindranath Tagore
• When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Kahlil Gibran
• God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don’t try to end it. Be your note. Rumi

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…allowing God’s music to play through you

• As an unintelligent man seeks for the abode of music in the body of the lute, so does he look for a soul within the the material and psychic aggregates, of which the individual mind-body is composed. Gautama Buddha
• Body / mind is a vehicle (musical instrument) for God to express through. Sometimes high note. Sometimes low.  The symphony needs them all.
• Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. Prem Prakash
• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation–preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul–forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Herrick Johnson
• I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. Johann Sebastian Bach
• In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. Max Lucado
• Oh, life is sweet, and death a dream When Thy Song flows through me. Paramahansa Yogananda
• When two of persons work together, think of it as the one consciousness playing a duet. Anthony Lambert
• When two of you work together, think of it as the one consciousness playing a duet. Anthony Lambert
• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed. Henry Ward Beecher

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Allow God to create through you

• God goes on creating through us. Joan D. Chittister
• You are a paintbrush in the hands of the Artist. Heidi Baker
• Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God. Richard Rohr
• To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation – and participating in creativity is participating in God. Rajneesh
• There is no separation between us and God-we are divine expressions of the creative principle…there can be no real lack or scarcity; there is nothing we have to try to achieve or attract; we contain the potential for everything within us. Shakti Gawain
• God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self. Thomas Merton
• God is creating at every moment of the world’s existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. Arthur Peacocke
• God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality. Alfred North Whitehead
• God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form. Guru Nanak
• On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color. Robert Breault
• Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive. Crane Wilbur

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When we are creative, we channel God

• The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Paul Klie
• Most great art is created when the artist feels they are chanelling something rather than trying to communicate something. Donald Miller
• Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. Albert Einstein
• Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man. Ruth Sawyer
• I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. Johann Sebastian Bach
• I think that artists don’t make art – the art makes itself through us. I’m not the doer. I’m just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don’t write the words; I don’t make the decisions. That’s the director. Ezra Miller
• In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express. Julia Cameron
• In the moment of deep creativity you disappear, God again starts functioning. Rajneesh
• In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. E. M. Forster
• It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.  Mary Daly
• Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly. Roman Vishniac
• Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God. Johannes Brahms
• When I create art, it’s like holding hands with God. Robert Mapplethorpe
• When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. Ernest Holmes
• Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible. Rajneesh
• The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realise its purpose through him. Carl Jung
• It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. Arthur Erickson

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The best way to create is to surrender to God…

• Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state. Rajneesh
• The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. Julia Cameron
• True creation is when Life creates through you. In the moment when creating, get out of the way and let it come through you. Connect with where creativity comes from – the power within. Eckhart Tolle
• When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. Madeleine L’Engle
• My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God. Nick Cave
• The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. C. S. Lewis
• The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered. Oswald Chambers

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…thus, putting ourselves in the right state of consciousness for God’s creativity to flow through us

• The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. Robert Henri
• Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. Torkom Saraydarian
• All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. Eckhart Tolle
• Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state. Rajneesh
• When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction. Julia Cameron

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Realise that it is God that creates all great works through you..

• It is not I but the Father within me who does the works. And “I can of my own self do nothing. Jesus Christ
• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them. Ramana Maharshi
• Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God. Ramakrishna
• In the recovery movement, they call what I’m talking about letting go and letting God. If you’re uncomfortable with the word God, just add an o and make it Good. The two words are interchangeable. It just means allowing this divine source of kindness, beauty and creativity to be the dominant force in your life – whatever you’re doing. I truly believe that God writes all the books and builds all the bridges. Sure, I sit down for six or seven hours a day with my pen and pads – but the message moves though me and I just allow. Wayne Dyer

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…and rest in the humility of this

• Humility is preserved when I give credit where credit is due – to God. Mother Angelica

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Surrender to God by abiding in awareness and love…

• Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. Virgil
• Be the knowing. Know only knowing. Love only knowing. Rupert Spira
• Only through love can we obtain communion with God Albert Schweitzer
• You will never know love unless you surrender to it. Katherine Reback
• Keep away those things that keep your thoughts away from the Lord. Hazarath Tajuddin Baba
• To think of God is to lose yourself in Him. The mind disappears and God only is.  Swami Ramdas
• Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome. Deepak Chopra
• Give your mind to thoughts and experiences but give your heart to the presence of awareness. It is God’s Infinite Being. Rupert Spira
• Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. Peace Pilgrim
• Let silence have you. And if you find you are still swimming on the surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depths of love. Kar Kirpa Sahib
• Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. Thomas Head Raddall
• To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special. Rajneesh
• Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. Marianne Williamson
• Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire – for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness – that is the way to live in this world. Paramahansa Yogananda
• True surrender is true power: the love-force that moves the universe is also the love-force that breathes your breath and beats your heart. When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life-force, a oneness of being with no separation. David Deida
• The devotee who feels God as the only reality existing within him, and himself existing in God, is united with God, one with God in unconditional union. That devotee inwardly perceives: “When I eat, I am eating for Him. When I serve, my hands are His. When I speak, my voice is His. It is God who is feeling and loving through me.” Such a devotee looks after the body as the temple of God. He realizes that it is God who has incarnated in the body. Paramahansa Yogananda

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The more God works through us, the greater our peace and joy

• When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement. Julia Cameron

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The more the mind and body is used by God, the healthier it becomes

• The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use if for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. Because it is sinful it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. Use it to bring the Word of God to those who have it not, and the body becomes holy. Because it is holy it cannot be sick, nor can it die. When its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all… A Course in Miracles
• The mind that serves spirit is invulnerable. A Course in Miracles

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Prayers of surrender

Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.  Paramahansa Yogananda

The Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is dispair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy; 
Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love. 

Oh Universal One Life; 
Let the form I take be an instrument for You 
A Space for You to experience and bless Life through … 
A Space empty of all sense of separateness, free of shame and pride 
A Space for the love and peace that You are to flow into the world  
A Space for You to recognise Yourself in all other living forms and to delight in the union  
A Space for You to delight in the beauty and wonder of this extraordinary world of form 
A Space for Your universal intelligence to flow for the benefit of All  
A Space for love and connection 
A Space for healing and vitality 
A Space for kindness and compassion 
A Space for creativity and inspiration 
A Space for fun and laughter.   
A Space for abundance and gratitude  
A Space for wisdom and revelation  
A Space for adventure and aliveness  
A Space for discovery and exploration  
A Space to serve others through the gifts of this form  
A Space to relieve suffering  
A Space to Create  
A Space to Savour   
A Space to expand from limited to Limitless  
A Space to awaken to infinite Possibilities  
A Space to be Pure, Spacious Presence.   
A Space to awaken to myself as You  
I Am You  
I Am Free  
I Am 
– By Anthony Lambert