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"There is no amount of suffering you can wish upon another that will heal your own pain. Love, forgiveness and compassion are the only remedies for alleviating your own anguish." ~ Chris W Metz

"Vulnerability is the only door through which others are invited into our hearts. By being genuine we show others where that door is located. By being authentic we show others the untidy parts of our inner world. To let in is to simultaneously show them where the pain hides in us." ~ Chris W Metz

"When we are Authentic, Vulnerable and Grateful we give the best we have to offer others, in turn we will receive the best that others have to give." ~ Chris W Metz

"To authentically give of anything, one must first possess it within themselves." ~ Chris W Metz

“Everything our life has been, or will ever be, is a result of how we consciously or unconsciously manage our present moments.”
~ Chris W Metz

"When we are unaware of what we are looking for, we will never appreciate what we find." ~ Chris W Metz

"Being fully present as you make choices, will increase the choices you can make."
~ Chris W Metz

"There is a destiny that belief fulfills." ~ Chris W Metz

“Limiting beliefs may not at first appear consciously to you. You may find yourself in situations and wonder how and why the same types of things continue to happen to you, more than likely a limiting belief is at play.” ~ Chris W Metz

"Without beliefs we would not know what is true for ourselves, by formulating a belief we create the reality of what is true in our own world."
~ Chris W Metz

"The mind is infinite in its capacity to store information, with one exception, beliefs and ideas. The mind cannot hold opposing ideas or beliefs and therefore must evict some before others are allowed residence." ~ Chris W Metz

During our reflection in the abyss, we become open to shedding our old beliefs. If we go through life clinging to old beliefs then we can never change our foundation of thought. Without a change in our thought processes, our lives will continue to be the same. Once we have discovered truth and experience nothing but joy, love, compassion and peace, further changes to our thought process becomes unnecessary. So we must acknowledge that holding onto antiquated beliefs will prevent us from achieving this state. If one embarks on a road to enlightenment they must be willing to examine their entire belief system and must also be prepared to alter those beliefs in order to change their experience of life. ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“Everyone develops a system of thought through life. It becomes so entrenched, we rarely if ever consider other ways of thinking. These repetitive thought processes are responsible for how we perceive the world and our response to given stimuli. This can be thought of with a tree analogy. All of the experiences and beliefs that we have established (i.e. roots,) produce what we see as growth above ground (our behaviours and thought processes.) It is very difficult to think differently when our roots (experience and beliefs) have already established their network in the ground. Only by uplifting or transplanting this metaphorical tree into a new ground environment are we able to change our system of thought. Here there are new things to uncover and new beliefs to establish. This makes it more likely we will make changes to our thought processes and beliefs. Only then can we experience a life that will change with a different system of thought. The fundamental basis of this change results from establishing new beliefs or truths for ourselves. This in turn establishes new ways of thinking thus changing our experience in life. The concept to understand is life is an idea. We live our life based on an idea we have formulated about it. All of the ensuing experiences we have are just reflections of our belief about life.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“Our beliefs and how we react to them are similar to how a blind person might navigate their world in the dark. We learn from repetition, what hurts, where to navigate, expecting what to feel after reaching so far. In many ways this is how we navigating through life with our beliefs. We learn the easiest paths, learn to steer clear of obstacles but admittedly will never know those things that lie in the darkness. We build a familiarity to our world and perceived reality by following the same paths and reacting in the same ways. holding onto the same beliefs we know without any doubt what to expect as we navigate our way. Those beliefs and patterns of behavior, whether they are good or bad, provide a safety net and structure for us. Beliefs allow us to interpret the world with certainty as to why things happen. We find comfort in the repetition of events and our belief in why they are occurring. Thinking in this way we react to life with programmed responses and this predictability brings us comfort.”
~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"Every emotional response we have is based on our belief about something. Our feelings and emotions come about based upon our interactions with situations, places and things and the resulting belief we form about them." ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“Beliefs are the fields in which the seed of our ideas grow.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Beliefs are merely the first interpretations of experience we formulate with an undeveloped mind. Most likely we have forgotten what the experience was or why we interpreted it the way we did.” ~ Chris W Metz

“We will experience everything we think. Every thought we cast into existence, is a cause demanding an effect on some plane, in some manner, in some space of time. Whether those effects come to us immediately, in this life, or another life is inconsequential. Every thought is a cause producing an effect. For this reason i implore you to guard your thoughts carefully.” ~ Chris W Metz

“We can never know the long term effects of any single act. What may appear as immediate and visual, contains a tail that drags far beyond the body of occurrence. Whether the attributes of good or bad are contained within this tail depends largely on the spirit in which the act was carried out.” ~ Chris W Metz

“a life of little is proceeded by giving little, a meager life results from giving meagerly. What we give out in life comes back to us multiplied. give to the world your shyness and it will be shy to you. Give the
world your uncertainty and the world will make you doubt. Give your anger, and hostility will reflect from every face. Level judgment upon others and others in turn shall judge you. Give to the world your love and that love multiplied will rain into your life. Share your compassion and you will in turn be shown compassion. Show the world your gratitude and the world will continue giving more. Share your peace with others and a silent beauty will always surround you. Always give what you wish to receive. Always be conscious of what you are giving.” ~ Chris W Metz

“We must recognize we are part of an intricate web. Our one piece of the web is interconnected to everyone and everything else. Everything we have comes through this web. As we give through this network so shall it return to us somewhere else. What we send out in any direction as willful intent returns to us as effects. What we are giving in the present will return to us through some thread in the future.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“At the end of the day and ultimately at the end of my life, what do I myself have but the integrity of the promises I make to myself.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Whenever you desire to have something, you may only possess it momentarily. Only when you decide to be something, does it become a part of you forever.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Living in this physical existence we have a strong urge to associate ourselves and what we perceive ourselves to be with the physical things around us…We take on traits of the physical world letting the physical things define who we are…It becomes a trap to associate ourselves with our material surroundings, our physical body or our environment. When we worship the attributes of our physical surroundings, we are idolizing false gods.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"Pretty on the outside will never hide ugly on the inside. Beauty on the inside will always project beauty on the outside." ~ Chris W Metz

"People give freely what they sense an abundance of within themselves." ~ Chris W Metz

“The truth can never be certain when one speaks poorly of another. The only certain truth is the poorness of character of those who seek to disparage the character of others.” ~ Chris W Metz

"Children are the uncorrupted saviors of a future human existence. Will you encourage them along to their potential, or corrupt them by teaching them to be like you?" ~ Chris W Metz

“As we venture through this physical life, we continually tend to our garden. We plant things that bring us strength, nourishment and joy. We begin by nurturing our relationships that in turn nourish and feed us. We plant the things that make us feel good about ourselves, nourishing those things we are proud of. Lastly, we cultivate the things we wish to look upon with beauty and satisfaction. Each day we are sowing seeds and providing nutrients in the way of thoughts and action, thereby encouraging their growth. As with any garden, weeds are bound to appear sprouting from anger, hatred, judgment, jealousy, fear and guilt. By holding on to these emotions and recalling the events that led to those feelings, we allow the weeds to take root and eventually take over our life. In this metaphorical garden they cannot be pulled out, instead they must be starved by withholding the thoughts and discontinuing the actions that promoted their growth.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"If you do not decide on what you want in life, you will instead spend your life rejecting what you don't want." ~ Chris W Metz

"We are always drawing things into us or pushing things away from us." ~ Chris W Metz

"However you would sum up the world is how you contribute to making it what it is." ~ Chris W Metz

“We are always fixated on what we do not want as opposed to what we do want. This preoccupation of thinking in the negative is what delivers precisely that result.” ~ Chris W Metz

"Imagination, Faith and Will is ultimately all we have, but with it we can create anything we desire." ~ Chris W Metz

“Weeds grow easily, but flowers need care and nurturing to bloom. Weeds will grow in every garden of dreams. rather than tending to these weeds, take the time to nurture the sweetness of the flowers. Over time they will grow abundant and choke out the weeds. In every moment with every new thought, we are planting seeds of beauty and nurturing them or tending to our weeds. In every thought we are planting or nurturing. The plants which do not receive attention or further thought will die. Those that are nurtured, given attention, and brought into the light, will
eventually grow large and bear the fruit of our nurturing. We are always in a state of creating, of watering, and bringing life to
our thoughts.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“We must create in our consciousness from the standpoint of having the reality we want as already done! Wishing and hoping brings more reality of wishing and hoping. It must be a feeling of already done, along with the feelings associated with this state. A sense of gratitude is the foundation of this state. We cannot just say the words and go through the motions, we have to genuinely feel it inside.  By nature, there is no fooling the
law that makes it possible.” ~ Chris W Metz

Somewhere high atop a mountain, eyes can plainly see. The drama of the world and those who struggle needlessly. At any moment, anyone can be, whatsoever they may wish to be. Their future can appear, however they wish to see. Yet toil they do day after day. Is it fear of such power? Or an ignorance of some degree? I could teach you to let everything go. Creating the space, where peace can take hold. In the womb of that space, of uncorrupted imagination life is conceived, giving birth to tomorrow. But first must come a desire to know, and the faith to believe. Without it the drama continues of those that struggle needlessly. ~ Chris W Metz

“Worry Not”
"Worry not about what may or may not come to be. Embrace this moment, find the magic in how perfect life is. Understand through will and power of mind we create the very environment in which we exist. How can any moment of life not be perfect? For it is our ‘perfect’ creation. The beliefs, thoughts and fears we currently hold in consciousness, are the messengers sent forth creating tomorrow. We must search our feelings and use our imagination to discover what we want in life, then guard our thoughts carefully to insure there is no conflict in what we desire." ~ Chris W Metz

"What the mind thinks becomes one's fate. We create our own self fulfilling prophecy." ~ Chris W Metz

"Is it not the realm of ideas, in which we choose, that creates our experience of life?"

“Have the discipline to maintain your inner garden from which all blooms of life spring forth. Be very conscious of the seeds you are planting with your desires, idle thoughts, judgment and fears. they will surely sprout and bring forth experience from the smallest of seeds.” ~ Chris W Metz

"Contained within 'MAYBE' and 'I DON’T KNOW'
exist the seeds of uncertainty which sprout into manifesting life’s fears."
In 'YES' and 'I AM CERTAIN' lies the fertilizer for our desires to grow strong and bear the fruit of our wishes." ~ Chris W Metz

“Do not be afraid to fall into the abyss, it is there you will come to know yourself more completely.” ~ Chris W Metz

No solid ground before me, abyss now lies across my path. Good things I see ahead of me, yet I know not how I will cross. It is here I can turn, and not face my fears But the path to this point I have already seen.
So onward I must go, though I fear the unknown. The treasures beyond, glimmer faintly before me. With courage and wisdom, I take these next few steps. The ground it crumbles around my feet, but slowly I walk, my faith I will keep, For life waits on the other side. ~ Chris W Metz

"You will never get beyond what you refuse to go into." ~ Chris W Metz

"The Ego is a very powerful thing and does not take to being rid of easily. It will rationalize its existence having us believe that it is essential to our protection, safety and well-being. It will also have us believe that there is nothing more important than being 'right.' But right and wrong are subjective judgments which the ego lives to decide based on believing it is all important. Love, compassion, gratitude and peace are the only truths, everything else is the judgment and perception of the ego." ~ Chris W. Metz

“The Ego is incapable of true love. Love to the ego is a ‘giving to get’ philosophy. It is conditional love based upon what the ego receives in return, always keeping score, measuring what is given verses what is received. To give generously without regard to reciprocity is the unconditional love emanating from spirit. This is a love which does not favor or hold bias in the direction of its giving.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"By meditating and blocking out the ego’s incessant chatter, we eventually learn to silence it. In this silence you will hear another voice, the soft whisper of spirit and the wisdom of your soul." ~ Chris W Metz

“Once the Ego has been subdued you will gladly evict it from your mind. On occasion it will come back to call but the pain in the visit will be so great that you will quickly escort it to the door.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Of which will you give answer to in life? Love and compassion, or I am more important than you?” ~ Chris W Metz

“The best technique for reinforcing our own knowledge is by teaching what we have learned. This is true of the interactions we have with people. When we extend love and gratitude we are both teaching and reinforcing the ideas within ourselves. However, when we demonstrate hatred, fear, jealousy, despair or anger we are only reinforcing those traits within ourselves; we in essence poison our own well. What the ego projects and demonstrates, it keeps to itself.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“Real change does not occur in others through ‘force,’ a concept the Ego would have us believe. We ‘inspire’ change in others by the demonstration of who we are.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Materialism has a price. Each material item has a weight based on its size and complexity, or adoration and neediness we have for it. As each is added during our lifetime, we become enslaved. Like a ball and chain they limit our mobility and reduce our capacity of consciousness. We are no longer able to see the world for what it is as we are bound by ‘things.’ The journey of self-discovery is sidetracked by the ego’s preoccupation with vanity and comfort.” ~ Chris W Metz

“The authenticity of spirit attracts all we desire in life, the projection of our ego pushes it away.” ~ Chris W Metz

"Only the ego will seek reciprocation for the generosity of the spirit." ~ Chris W Metz

As we assess things from a variety of perspectives we gain clarity and understanding. As we view the problems in our own life we see them from a single perspective. Only after we have overcome the problem, are we able to view it from a new vantage point. It is during this shift in perspective we learn the most about ourselves. Seeing what was once perceived as a problem we eventually look upon as a learning experience, and thus our consciousness is expanded. Our ego is responsible for our fear in life and it is fear that obscures our initial perspective. ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

“The ego maintains a rigid set of conditions for happiness which will never be met.” ~ Chris W Metz

"We spend our lives struggling to build security and comfort for the ego, at the expense of adventure and growth of our soul." ~ Chris W Metz

"Anyone who would promote or incite your, fear, anger, judgment, retribution or hatred is not a friend, but another ego searching for an ally. Side with the ego and you walk into darkness, isolation and fear, separating yourself from others. Listen to spirit and the wisdom of your soul, and you will remember love, compassion, gratitude and peace." ~ Chris W Metz

"When one is only concerned with their own selfish needs, they will spend their life alone in the pursuit of satisfying them." ~ Chris W Metz

"The ego's most powerful ally to its survival is the mouth. Through the mouth the ego lives on in words." ~ Chris W Metz

"You can't fight and win against a person who surrenders their ego." ~ Chris w Metz

"You need a large ego for as long as you are ignorant of your larger sense of self." ~ Chris W Metz

"There is no love in judging another. We-are-all-connected, we-are-all-one. The only illusion that separates us is this body and the ego it houses. The only thing that keeps you one with all life, is love." ~ Chris W Metz

“You Create your world based on your beliefs, feelings and emotions. You create bad things in your life when you believe in fear. Fear originates with the ego, therefore the ego needs to be relinquished if we wish to have perfect conscious creation.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"Those who seek earnestly will be rewarded in earnest for what they seek" ~ Chris W Metz

"Attach Yourself to Nothing and you are free." ~ Chris W Metz

"To truly know one's self, is to know that same self in all others." ~ Chris W Metz

In just one day, your world can change. The light of just one day’s sunrise can illuminate the hidden world that exists within each of us. Just one day’s sunrise can illuminate an idea which can change our lives and the entire world around us. Just one day’s sunshine is all it takes to illuminate a beauty there all along. I wish to be that ray of light in your life. Someday all it will take is “one day.” ~ Chris W Metz

“If we were to realize we are on a journey by which the final destination is the physical death of our body, we might ask ourselves what path we are following and why we are on such a path. Following the path of spirituality and love through life leads to the realization the death of our body does not mark the end of our path.” ~ Chris W Metz

“The only beliefs that should be held on to are those of truth. What is truth? Truth is the realization we are all connected, we are all one, and in that oneness there is nothing but love. That is a truth that many will find hard to come to, but it is the ultimate truth and belief that we should aspire to know. In this oneness we release each other from the hell like illusion of physical life, we eliminate the space between and recognize each other as family. As in most families there is nothing that we wouldn’t do for each other. This is the ultimate reality and it is the attainment of heaven on earth.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss

"I have nothing but love in me. I know not of anger, judgment or hate.  What I am lights the darkness and guides others into the light,
so they too may become a torch unto themselves." ~ Chris W Metz

"No more searching will instill what you recognize as peace. Yet search you do high and low, in books and through a screen, looking, seeking for something which cannot be seen. With you all along it has been, by way of the ego it cannot be found. One must humble themselves, taking off the ego's crown.
Recognize those who possess it, instead of beating them down. Perhaps if you would listen, the answer would surround you. You seek an ideal of something, but your thoughts betray it, criticizing and judging, as if to slay exactly what you seek. Go ahead and keep looking, but what you cannot see in another,
will not be found within yourself, eluding you forever." ~ Chris W Metz

“Searching for truth can be deadly, for what dies is the illusion of our experience.” ~ Chris W Metz

At some point in the search for nlightenment, you will have all the knowledge that is necessary. After that, it is up to each person to take that knowledge and cultivate it in their own life. This is done through daily awareness, daily intention, daily meditation and daily practice. No amount of further knowledge or seeking will manifest enlightenment within yourself. It is only through your will and daily practice that furthers the knowledge you seek for enlightenment. ~ Chris W Metz

“Seek ye the ever elusive door to heaven. It lies in shadows of our ignorance. It is there, has been there and is always there. Yet we look for it outside ourselves as if it were hidden, within us, it is here, has been here, will always be here. Those who will earnestly seek and will themselves to know, will be shown what lies in the shadow of virtue.” ~ Chris W Metz

“Do what your heart tells you. Do not be afraid to pursue that which cannot yet be seen. Faith is the bridge with which to cross Courage is the first step.” ~ Chris W Metz

"If you are looking for hard scientific evidence in matters of spirituality, then you are seeking information, facts and data, not spirituality. Faith is a major component of spirituality and no amount of education, data or scientific evidence can teach faith." ~ Chris W Metz

"Faith and willingness bring about ability." ~ Chris W Metz

“Fear tends to be the essence of our experience in the abyss, so in simplistic terms it is letting go of this fear that is the catalyst for crawling out of its depths. Fear makes us feel trapped and unsure of what to do, in turn we panic and exhaust our energy fighting the anxiety itself. Fear is also a fragmenting emotion; it separates us from the whole and makes us view all things as separate.” ~ Chris W Metz, The Road Out Of The Abyss