http://andreastevens.wordpress.com Andrea explores the spiritual dialogue of the ego and the soul as the conversation relates to the evolution of loving relationships with the self and with others. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:40:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://andreastevens.wordpress.com http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/a-good-reminder-from-rumi/ http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/a-good-reminder-from-rumi/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:40:20 +0000 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/?p=603 ]]> What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Rumi ♥

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Look for the remedy inside the pain.
because the rose came from the thorn
and the ruby came from a stone.
Rumi ♥

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But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It’s too bad that you want to be someone else
You don’t see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.
Rumi ♥

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Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi ♥

Filed under: spirituality ]]> http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/delightful-rumi/feed/ 0 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/on-love-by-krishnamurti/ http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/on-love-by-krishnamurti/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:27:21 +0000 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/?p=581 ]]> “Why is there this everlasting craving to be loved? Listen carefully. You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you. As long as you demand to be loved, there is no love in you; and if you feel no love, you are ugly, brutish, so why should you be loved? Without love you are a dead thing; and when the dead thing asks for love, it is still dead. Whereas, if your heart is full of love, then you never ask to be loved, you never put out the begging bowl for someone to fill it. It is only the empty who ask to be filled, and an empty heart can never be filled by running after gurus or seeking love in a hundred other ways.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

Filed under: spirituality ]]> http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/on-love-by-krishnamurti/feed/ 0 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/true-change-from-eckhart-tolle/ http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/true-change-from-eckhart-tolle/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:40:11 +0000 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/?p=577 ]]> The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that’s what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully? Eckhart Tolle

Filed under: spirituality ]]> http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/true-change-from-eckhart-tolle/feed/ 0 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/lol/ http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/lol/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:01:35 +0000 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/?p=561 ]]> “All the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear.” Byron Katie

Filed under: spirituality ]]> http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/lol/feed/ 0 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/open-doors/ http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/open-doors/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:21:07 +0000 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/?p=559 ]]> “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
- Alexander Graham Bell

Filed under: spirituality ]]> http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/open-doors/feed/ 0 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/perfect-love/ http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/perfect-love/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:09:22 +0000 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/?p=557 ]]> “You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, & so you seek without for what you cannot find within.” The Course in Miracles

Filed under: spirituality ]]> http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/perfect-love/feed/ 0 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/burning-through-suffering-from-m-williamson/ http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/burning-through-suffering-from-m-williamson/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:28:59 +0000 Andrea Avari Stevens, Ph.D http://andreastevens.wordpress.com/?p=555 ]]> Suffering doesn’t make us weak; only an avoidance of suffering makes us weak. Sometimes the only way to get around it is to burn through it.
“All neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering.” — Carl Jung

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