Mantra

"A mantra is useful in this way: it prevents the mind from wandering and bringing in (i.e. to meditation) foreign matter for the mind is centered on the mantra. ...Each of you have a certain mantra that is given to you because of its vibratory rate being in harmony with your vibratory rate. ...The intent is very wonderous indeed, but a lot of students get caught up in the mantra and become solid in it. They feel, if they do not have the mantra, 'Oh, I cannot meditate. I do not have my mantra,; The object of meditation is to go past all limitation, including that of the mantra.' So, once you have used the mantra to bring you up to that mental state, you will feel the mantra go from you. Allow it to be so and just keep going."

11/12/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY, Pg. 117. Copyright 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, please click here.

Putting Ego in Its Place

"The true work of the ego is to help you. But when the ego gets unreasonable and is causing you to be fearful of things you really don't need to be fearful of, then you need to put your ego in its place. You simply bless it. You say, 'Ego, I bless you. I love you. I thank you for the purpose that you were created. Now get out of my way and do what you are supposed to do!' It is that simple. The ego is very obedient because it recognizes the only life it has is what you give it."

11/10/2025 Blog. Archangel Gabriel, INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY, Pg. 43. Copyright 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, please click here.

Illusions Defined

"Jesus: Illusion will give you only momentary comfort. It will give you regret. Illusion gives you a false sense of well-being that quickly dissipates in the face of any challenge. When you feel unsure, when you feel afraid, then you can know you are in an illusion. When you have a sense that I'm not well or I'm not safe, then you know you are in an illusion. But when you feel the joy of God and when you feel secure, when you can say, 'God's walking with me through this. I'm not alone and I'm okay and this is going to turn out alright,' then you know you are in your connectedness. You can judge by the fruits of your labors. Is there joy in your life? Are you content? Do you feel a sense of beingness that brings you an aliveness that is beyond the physical? Or are you just going from day to day?

Participant: Do you think that we have to be able to label what the underlying fear is, or belief is, to change it? Because sometimes I think I'm not conscious of it.

Jesus: No, no, I don't. Fear is fear, and it doesn't matter what form it takes - it is fear. So to eliminate the fear, you don't necessarily have to know why you have it. Always knowing the why of something isn't always the answer. There is the rock of faith: the sureness of knowing that 'No matter what is happening, I'm alright and I'm going to come out of this okay.' You have to believe that wherever you are, you are truly alright."

11/09/2025 Blog. Jesus, CHRIST BECOMING - THE LIVES OF JESUS & HIS PATH TO THE CHRIST, Pgs. 267-268. Copyright 2018 Rev. Penny Donovan. All rights reserved. To buy this book, please click here.