Growing in spirituality means having a deeper realization of your need

for 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, or
in the way we judge ourselves. By judging others, it gives us the power
we lose from being judged and criticized by others or ourselves.

People use religion for ego power and ego security. It breeds guilt and
competition 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 an

escape from unpleasant feelings. They don’t admit that they feel
disconnected 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 the

process of spiritual growth, your understanding of anything, the work
of 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 detached
from this world is the extent to which we can love others.

Your spirituality is different from your worthiness. Not everyone is

spiritual, but everyone is worthy.
I want someone who is made happy by my presence, and whose
presence makes me happy.

You must let yourself feel the pain of God’s judgments (or the
consequences of your actions) in order for it to work as a deterrent for
future wrong actions. If you numb your pain, you won’t learn or grow
from your mistakes. If the pain is not a result of wrong action or
personal weakness, then the suffering is a test from God for the growth
of 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 will
lose 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, even
though 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 vulnerable
stuff inside—then shed that husk.

We don’t know our destiny; we can’t figure out our destiny. God does
what He wills. All we can do is use our gifts and talents to serve Him by
surrendering our all to Him, and by making choices in life that conform
to the best understanding of His Word. His destiny for us is that we
completely trust in Him, and entrust our future to Him without knowing
what 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 try

to have a positive relationship to it by embracing it and seeing how
God uses suffering to help us grow spiritually and reach out for His
love. It also helps us to forge bonds of love with others, and it
promotes detachment from worldly things.
When you become emotionally dependent on someone, it produces a
sense of expectation and entitlement from the person. When you don’t
get 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 from
your attachment to them and lack of connection with God’s love.

The more you get hurt, the more your heart breaks open—the greater
measure of love you can receive from God as you turn to Him for
comfort.

Human beings are like flowers. We need to be continually deriving

sustenance from the soil of our trust in God, and opening up our hearts
to the sun of His grace and love.