Some people pray to their guides and feel let down by their guides when they go through a challenge in life. Echo Bodine More Quotes by Echo Bodine More Quotes From Echo Bodine Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book. Echo Bodine running book people If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually. Echo Bodine helping mean book I think too much importance is placed on spirit guides. They involve looking outside of ourselves to do it, to fix it, to tell us what to do. Echo Bodine too-much spirit thinking I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it. Echo Bodine ifs feels book A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides? Echo Bodine knowing wise jobs It always comes back to the fact that it is best to listen to that inner voice, whether you're in a relationship or not. Echo Bodine inner-voice voice facts It's not harder to hear the inner voice when you're in a relationship, but it's more of a challenge to follow it. Echo Bodine harder voice challenges Intuition is something all of us have been given. Echo Bodine intuition has-beens given I think of the inner voice as a compass or as a wayshower to guide our path. Echo Bodine voice path thinking A lot of us have been raised with the Bible and with movies from Hollywood to believe that God shouts down from the heavens or appears in a burning bush. It's always so dramatic and kind of scary. So that's what we all expect when we're asking God for some answers. Echo Bodine scary heaven believe I've come to believe, on the journey of mine, that we have a still, small voice - and that voice does come from God. It's there to bring us comfort and to bring us guidance with everything. Echo Bodine voice journey believe We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation." Echo Bodine able voice needs Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice. Echo Bodine inner-voice voice knowing One of the voices that we struggle with inside is the voice of religion. Religion teaches us some very strict things about God and our relationship with God. Some religions teach us that we aren't worthy of having a personal relationship with God. Echo Bodine our-relationship voice struggle Using your intuition is such a wonderful way to live. It's very exciting. Echo Bodine way-to-live intuition wonderful We have a lot of controlling people who are trying to tell us how to live our lives, and a lot of co-dependent people around us. We bump up against these people, too, when we're trying to get on the spiritual path. Echo Bodine spiritual trying people People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God. Echo Bodine responsibility spiritual people We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also. Echo Bodine growing-up spiritual teacher There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God. Echo Bodine belief religious answers God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions. Echo Bodine material-possessions possession want
