Raphael Zernoff Quotes

As much as love is the source of power for those who are centred in their hearts, as much fear is the source of illusionary power for those who insist on being led by their heads alone. ~ Raphael Zernoff

You are more than capable of taking decisions about your own life. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When we follow our joy and excitement, being focused on what we love and appreciate, the change always unfolds with a great ease. Whenever we experience any tension in our transformations, it only indicates our resistance to the change. In fact, it is not the change itself that we resist. We resist ourselves. We resist becoming a more holistic person who is aware of our multidimensional nature. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Happiness is not something we can find. Happiness is a state of being. It is a choice we make at any particular moment. It is a feeling we can choose without any reason. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Being able to appreciate who we are and what we have in the now is an easy way to journey through this life. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Happiness is purely a chosen state of being available to all, at all times.
I choose to be happy, because I am. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Prayers likewise your positive thoughts can be based on gratitude and love. ~ Raphael Zernoff

What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful?
Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to be dependent on any external circumstances and rules dictated by the mainstream society.
It does not matter where we live and what we possess. When we love and support ourselves unconditionally choosing to be ourselves as much as we can, this is for us, Being Successful. ~ Raphael Zernoff

The new expanded spirituality is all inclusive. It is inclusive, because it comes from unconditional love. In the concept of unconditional love there is no exclusion. Everything and everyone is seen as a part of oneself.
It is a beautiful spirituality as the one who lives by its principles cannot by definition be a part of any conflict. ~ Raphael Zernoff

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing. ~ Raphael Zernoff

People look for peaceful solutions for the world troubled by conflict. A peaceful solution can only come from a peaceful heart. Be the peaceful solution you seek. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Helping Others

When we live our lives in happy, compassionate and constructive ways we set an example for others, which they may or may not choose to follow. There is no need for convincing anyone to what we know as good for us. Our actions always speak louder than words, as beautiful as they may be. Be yourself riding the wave of change, and you will lighten up assisting many others to do the same if this is what they prefer. ~ Raphael Zernoff

No one is ever lost. No one needs to be saved. Open your inner eyes and see it all existing in harmony and love. ~ Raphael Zernoff

The world is focused on success, which is defined as riches and fame.
Define your success as a person of values.
Make love, compassion, and kindness your only success and everything else will be available to you. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Listen to your heart in silence and peace, as through fear you only channel fear. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Karma does never return to punish. Its role is to assist with solving what has been left uncompleted. It always returns to you, when you are strong enough to look at it. You never are asked to deal with more than you can handle. So relax and accept what is being offered to you. Accept it as a gift of love. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Understand that fire fought with fire does only increase the heat. ~ Raphael Zernoff

You are a limitless consciousness, Love, and the One who contains within yourself all that is. ~ Raphael Zernoff

There is no final destination to our journey. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Experiential reality is a pure reflection of your own state of being. You see what you believe. It is that simple. ~ Raphael Zernoff

There is no real need to save others, because they will help themselves learning from us, when we choose to shine our light of unconditional love.
Through our loving examples others can create, for themselves, an opportunity to act the way they are inspired by us. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When we say we understand something, but we do not experience it, we do not understand it.

Understanding and experiencing are the same thing.

For example, we may say: I understand the importance of forgiveness BUT I can't do it.

Firstly, replace "I can't do it" with:
I am choosing to remain in the state of being of ignorance (misinformation), because I believe it to be the best option I can choose from.

Secondly, replace "I understand the importance of forgiveness" with:
"I do not understand the importance of forgiveness".

Being honest with oneself is the first step to self-understanding. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Change your state of being and your experience will follow. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Feed yourself with the food of wisdom.
Wisdom is recognised by joy and peace.
When you allow your ways to be light you go high.
When your path supports heaviness it weighs you down. ~ Raphael Zernoff

I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be. ~ Raphael Zernoff

There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Love, and everything else will come to you. ~ Raphael Zernoff

There is no such thing as lack of love. There is only plenty of fear,which clouds our perceptions. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Let go of everything that you hold onto, which does not serve you anymore. Be light, walk faster. ~ Raphael Zernoff

We have been pretending for a long time to be limited beings. ~ Raphael Zernoff

We look for our perfect partners, and we wish we can be accepted the way we are. We seek unconditional love. It is all beautiful. While doing it we can always remember that we need to accept ourselves unconditionally, as much as we wish others to accept as with no conditions. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Accept what makes you happy and pay no attention to fearful beliefs no matter who they come from. ~ Raphael Zernoff

There is no virtue in poverty and illness. we all have been created to be healthy and wealthy with more than enough for everyone. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When we become aware of feeling low it can be a reason to rejoice. Why would we be distressed knowing that some unconscious negative belief is trying to get our attention.

Let it surface.

When we see what it is, it can be transformed into understanding and love.
oops... yet another fearful belief has been set free.
Now we can enjoy ourselves eagerly anticipating yet another great self-rediscovery. ~ Raphael Zernoff

The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way.
Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that needs to be earned, and achieved. It is a choice that needs to be supported by positive actions. It is not enough to say that we want to be happy. Our desire of happiness, love and peace, needs to be supported by our state of being. ~ Raphael Zernoff

We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Everything is true for the person who believes it to be true. ~ Raphael Zernoff

The purpose of life is to live it being self-aware in the eternal now with its infinite versions of us. It is about living our dreams, and not just dreaming about living them one day. ~ Raphael Zernoff

What you seek you shall find unless you stop searching for it. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Romantic relationship is meant to be romantic, which means loving. If it is not any more you may ask yourself why you are still together. ~ Raphael Zernoff

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When you allow yourself to remember that you truly are a multidimensional being, you will begin experiencing yourself in a much more expanded way. What previously was believed to be supernatural becomes natural. Then you come to a realisation that now you can see what has always been there yet it remained hidden to you who chose to see something else. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of them will never be.
Question your beliefs. Choose what promotes love and unity. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Everything with no exception is a choice. The choice can be either conscious or unconscious depending on the level of self-awareness.
The more self-aware we become, the faster we can make our unconscious choices known to us. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Each conflict is self conflict. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Whenever we decide to create a greater degree of change in our lives we need to start doing things differently.
Any external change only reflects the inner transformation. Hence whenever we decide to change our lives, it does not happen through manipulation of the external reality. Any external change is a pure reflection of the inner change. We must change our perceptions, beliefs, feelings, thoughts, the way we talk and express ourselves, in order to see a significant change in our realities. It is all it takes. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth. ~ Raphael Zernoff

... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love. ~ Raphael Zernoff

The path you walk is unique and needed. There is no other like yours. On your path you experience love, joy and peace, as well as loneliness, sadness and torment. These all are specific lessons you choose to rediscover your divine identity. ~ Raphael Zernoff

When the heart sees injustice it turns to the perspective of oneness.
It feels no need to produce a big speech to overcome its enemies.
In silence it finds its peace. ~ Raphael Zernoff

You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion and understanding. You become more of who you truly are, when you choose compassion and kindness. It must start from being kind to yourself. ~ Raphael Zernoff

There is always someone who cares for us and loves us. We may not always be aware of that yet we are very much needed and truly loved by the Universe. Everything that exists is needed, because what is not needed is not created. This is the way the Universe understands existence.
When we let go of those people around us who are no longer compatible with our preference, which is love, peace and joy, we open the door to many new friends who love us for who we choose to be, and not for who they want us to be. ~ Raphael Zernoff

My Personal Super Shortcut To Happiness

- When you prefer to lighten up your self-awareness, allow yourself to focus on your strongest joy, passion, and excitement.
It is something you can do at every moment of your life, whenever you become aware of not feeling well. Always choose, out of all available joys, passions and excitements, as small as they may be, whatever makes you feel good about yourself. Act on the joy you determine as the passion of the moment, and enjoy it as long as it is fun for you. When it stops being enjoyable or when there is something else, which you become aware of, as more pleasurable, do it. You do not need any reason to have in order to embrace what interests you. You do not need any reason either, to stop doing something in the middle, when it does not excite you anymore. Whatever you choose to follow as your joy, as small and insignificant as it may appear, have no expectations, how this little joy can take you to your big dreams. Enjoy it only because you like it, and not because you expect some specific outcome in the future. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Pushing away unwanted feelings and situations, equals inviting them to return back with a greater strength. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Life Works in a Very Simple Way. Resist it less and allow it unfold the way it wants. Use your power of allowing. ~ Raphael Zernoff

You may think that you know nothing, yet all wisdom is yours.
Unlearn what your mind accepted as the only way.
Remember what you have forgotten.
Receive what you desire, and know that you receive what you focus on through your feelings.
Desire nothing but wisdom, and your path will lead you straight on. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Human life is designed as a self-study program.
Existence is always one undivided. It is what we often call the Light. It is a pure consciousness of unconditional love. Out of the Light the idea of darkness is created. There is no existence of light and darkness, as separated energies. The separation is illusionary.
Experiencing ourselves as humans is an exploration of the greater Self in a localised condition.
A dense reality is created to facilitate the idea of forgetfulness.
Now we collectively entered a new time of remembering. It is not necessary anymore to create the illusion of self-disconnection from the energy source. ~ Raphael Zernoff

There is no membership required for shining the light. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Whenever man tries to become God, it is a tragedy. ~ Raphael Cohen-Almagor

You can paint a dead herring purple, and you can hang it on the wall, but hard as you try, you can't make it sing. ~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus

You're touching me," I chided him.
He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting every sensitive point I hadn't even known I had. "No, this is touching you. That was just accidental contact."
"Oh? Good to know. If you touch me again and I break your arm off, you can be sure it will be completely accidental. ~ Ilona Andrews

The two angels were both tall, but Aodhan was perhaps an inch taller, and now his eyes locked with Illium's for a long, quiet moment before he lowered his head slightly. Illium raised his hand, the movement slow, hesitant ... and then his fingers brushed Aodhan's cheek just below the cut that had almost sealed. The first ray of dawn kissed the tear that rolled down Illium's face, caressed the painful wonder on Aodhan's as he lifted his hand to clasp the wrist of his friend's hand.
That instant of contact, the power of it, stole her breath.
Then Illium smiled, said something that made Aodhan's lips curve-Elena thought it might've been "Welcome back, Sparkle"-and they were separating to sweep off the Tower in a symphony of wild silver blue and heartbreaking light.
"Raphael," she whispered, having felt him come up behind her. "Did you see?"
"Yes." His hand on her nape, his thumb brushing over her pulse. "Of course it would be Illium who reached him," he murmured. ~ Nalini Singh

People out grow me," he said, in the same blase tone one might say, "That is a tall building." He picked up a stick and chucked it into the water. |Everyone who ever loves me one day outgrows me. ~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The mind has doors...even as the body does. And when you drill new holes, you tap old hungers. ~ Raphael Carter

(Raphael) "I know why you refuse me, Daylighter, and it is not out of some pretended sense of rejection. You are so involved with the Shadowhunters, you think you are one of them. We have seen you with them. Instead of spending your nights in the hunt, as you should, you spend them with Valentine's daughter. You live with a werewolf. You are a disgrace."
(Simon) "Do you act like this with every job interview? ~ Cassandra Clare

His duchess caught the tip of her tongue between her teeth as she carefully poured warm water over his hair. Her lips were very pink. Plump, with a prominent Cupid's bow on the upper one. Her mouth gleamed softly with moisture.
His eyelids dropped as he considered what he wanted to do with that mouth.
She was working soap into his hair now with strong, slim fingers that massaged his scalp.
He clenched his jaw to keep from groaning.
She scrubbed backward through his hair, stroking, pressing, and he found his eyes closing like a lazy cat's. He'd not been touched like this by another since...
Well. Not for a very long time. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

I looked at Raphael. He looked back at me.Several parts of me that weren't on public display brought out their pompoms and began cheering. ~ Katie MacAlister

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view. ~ June Diane Raphael

Ollie appeared, a cellphone in one hand and Raphael wiggling in the other. "Smile!" he shouted as he snapped a picture on his phone. "It's like my two kids are going to prom."

Both Cam and I were dumbstruck.

Ollie beamed. "Putting this in my scrapbook. Have fun!" He popped back into their apartment, closing the door behind him.

"Um…"

Cam laughed loudly. "Oh God, that was different."

"He doesn't normally do that?"

"No." He laughed again, putting his hand on my lower back. ~ J. Lynn

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are ...
When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves ... Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus

Sorry Raphael. My friends are complete, fucking ... ." He looked up.
I tried to jerk back inside, but it was too late.
Cam saw me.
"Assholes ... " He did a double take. "What the ... ?"
Would dive bombing into my apartment seem weird? Yes - yes it would. So I went with a very lame, "Hey ... ~ J. Lynn

Raphael, in case you're getting ideas - I won't be this civilized if you decide you need a concubine. In fact, it's a good bet I'll turn homicidal.
He didn't look up from his conversation with Astaad as he said, A pity, in that cool "Archangel" tone of his. I will now have to ask the pilot to empty the hold of my chosen females.
We're going to have to talk about this new sense of humor of yours. ~ Nalini Singh

And so," Andreas murmured, "I could've been the one who won a woman so unique that she charms beings old beyond time."
"Nope. You aren't Raphael. ~ Nalini Singh

When you've lived as long as I have," he said, eyes heavy-lidded but definitely on her, "you learn to appreciate new sensations. They are rare in an immortal's life."
She found she'd moved toward him. He hooked her arm around her waist, pulling her closer until she straddled him as he sat on a ledge below the waterline, her legs wrapped around his waist.
He settled her firmly against him.
Sucking in a breath, she said, "Sex isn't new to you," and rocked her heat over the exquisite hardness of him. Good didn't begin to describe how it felt. How he felt.
"No. But you are."
"Never had a hunter before?" She grinned, nibbling on his lower lip.
But he didn't smile. "I've never had Elena before." The words were husky, his eyes so intent she felt owned. ~ Nalini Singh

There is no proof of creativity without action. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus

There is nothing opposed in Biometry and Mendelism. Your husband and I worked that out at Peppards [on the Chilterns] and you will see it referred in the Biometrika memoir. The Mendelian formula leads up to the 'ancestral law'. What we fought against was the slovenliness in applying Mendel's categories and asserting that such formulae apply in cases when they did not. ~ Karl Pearson

You're prettier than I imagined you", Raphael said. "Uh ... thank you," I said. "But I don't really ... "
"Wait,wait, I've got one," he interrupted. "Somebody better call God. Because Heaven's missing an angel! ~ Alexandra Adornetto

In order to mount to heaven, you used the Inferno to give you momentum. "The further down you gain your momentum," you often used to tell me, "the higher you shall be able to reach. The militant Christian's greatest worth is not his virtue, but his struggle to transform into virtue the impudence, dishonor, unfaithfulness, and malice within him. One day Lucifer will be the most glorious archangel standing next to God; not Michael, Gabriel, or Raphael - but Lucifer, after he has finally transubstantiated his terrible darkness into light. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life. ~ Raphael Saadiq

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses. ~ Sally Jessy Raphael

Raphael had taken notice of Greg at lunchtime - it was hard not to being that he was the biggest human at school. Raphael was pleased to have a class with him. I knew this because he said so in his non-stop Gregory Johnson commentary: What astounding athletic skills that Gregory Johnson must have. Gregory Johnson could slay a battalion of enemy soldiers wielding nothing but a sword. What a pity Gregory Johnson's soul was not meant to become an angel. My hairstyle would look exceptional on Gregory Johnson. Evidently, the human-first-name-only-concept was lost to Archangels. ~ Ashlan Thomas

I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt you."
"Then why were you carrying a gun? ~ Nalini Singh

According to his closest disciple who served him while patriarch, Fr Raphael Ava Mina, Kyrillos' diet was meager and austere. When he broke his fast around midday - having started the day with psalmody at three in the morning - it would inevitably be with a piece of bread (qorban) and dukkah. With much pleading, he could occasionally be convinced to add a few small spoons of beans. Often Kyrillos would be delayed by meetings and then he would have his breakfast only after three in the afternoon. For lunch, he would usually have some dried bread with a small number of cooked vegetables - but, Fr Raphael recalls, he would never actually eat the vegetables, but only dip his bread in their sauce. Before he slept, he would usually be satisfied with some fruit or bread at most. "I never saw him touch a piece of chicken or meat, or even have a sip of milk." That was during the non-fasting days. In fasting times, especially that of Lent and the Theotokos fast, even though he had been awake since the earliest hours of the morning, he would eat only once later in the evening.

At one point during the fifty days of Resurrection, Kyrillos gave his regular cook a few days of leave, upon which Fr Raphael, who in his own words "did not know how to cook," thought to take care of the kitchen. Each evening he would lay out roasted chicken, a few small pieces of meat, rice, bread and cheese; only to find the chicken and meat untouched, with the bread and cheese eaten. Given the poor r ~ Daniel Fanous

Naasir stretched lazily before settling back into his previous position. "I'm old enough now, and I want someone to play with like you play with Janvier and Raphael does with Elena. Even Dmitri plays with Honor." This seemed to fascinate him. "The rules are secret in each game. I want to have secret rules with a woman who . . ." A long pause. "A woman who knows me, understands what I am, and who wants to have secret rules with me. ~ Nalini Singh

The vampire shrugged. Isabelle knew vampires were dead and soulless and all, but she did not see why they had to be rude. ~ Cassandra Clare

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. ~ Frederic Raphael

Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have been raised in a world where information is deemed far more important than imagination. Adults replaced dreams with discipline when they were finally ready to grow up and be responsible for their lives. Whether this contrast was reinforced on an assembly line, in a cubicle, or in a classroom, the surest path to acceptance in society is accepting standardization. And we more than willingly, relinquish our uniqueness. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus