Wisdom of the Living Luminaries

I took notes on the documentary called "Living Luminaries." Some of the bulletpoints below are actual quotes from the movie, and some of them are summarized points. Enjoy.

• God has the answer to every problem the moment it occurs.
• We need to become the people who have the wisdom to let God work through us.
• Don’t believe yourself or someone else, but learn to listen.
• Joy is found in the present moment, when you’re truly listening.
• Lies exist only because of the belief that they are true.
• “I” is an illusion. You are not nothing, but you are no-thing. You are a formless presence.
• Courage must replace fear.
• Freedom comes from detaching from everything.
• Self-centeredness brings unhappiness. Praise and blame, loss and gain, pleasure and pain, and fame and shame are all forms of self-centeredness.
• Become aware of the fundamental harmony of your being.
• We must be independent from circumstances so that we are no longer the victim.
• Happiness is a moment-by-moment choice, and can be attained along the way.
• The higher values commune with each other: Beauty, Truth, Love, Freedom, Justice, Equality, and Peace are all higher values that will bring you happiness.
• Learn to harmonize with your lower, animal nature by uniting it with your higher nature.
• Our life is a journey to significance, not to success.
• Do not worship or follow others, but find your Self and be your Self.
• Give people more respect than you expect for yourself. Everyone is suffering.
• True happiness comes from within, and not from outer circumstances.
• We must stop making distinctions between others and ourselves.
• We have to reorient and restructure the way we live our lives.
• We must love others before we can understand them.
• Materialistic desires will never bring us perfect happiness.
• Addictive patterns pull us away from peace of mind. You will always be annoyed if you look at what separates you from others.
• Yesterday is history and tomorrow is history. All that we have is today.
• Those who fail to plan will plan to fail. Silence is our only way to plan.
• Focus is very important in everything we do.
• God is not a separate deity or entity, but the all-encompassing force of Life and Love.
• There is one ego, appearing as many.
• Forgiveness does not pardon sins and make them real; it sees there was no sin. Only then are your sins forgiven.
• Have patience, timing, kindness, honesty, and inner peace.
• There is no sin but a mistake
• We create our experience of reality, but that doesn’t make it reality.
• What you perceive is the realm of effect, but consciousness it the realm of cause.
• Suffering is psychological, and implies an unhappy story.
• You do not have to identify with your thoughts. You are not your mind.
• Entering the present Now brings awareness of the aliveness of your body and your surroundings.
• We do not understand statements without first experiencing them or having some relation to them.
• Happiness is being, living and letting live, and loving yourself.
• We must find the timeless presence of “I” behind the “story of me.”
• The moment you’re asking, “am I happy,” you’re not.