When you pray don’t ask God for anything. Gratitude, worship, and contemplative prayer are best. Removing yourself from the center of attention always brings you closer to God.

Relinquish your ego’s omnipotence narrative, it is nothing but fiction. Declare all life’s blessings and miracles to be possessions of God. And with gratitude return all gifts to the Spirit, that your spirit may be made holy.

During personal struggle give up any personal hope, rely only on God’s. Through surrender and sacrifice, with patience and faith, divine hope appears. And through holiness you are lifted up into believing all possibilities.

Be better than others, in action not worth. Demanding of yourself to be the best you can, no matter what the other’s way is, or has been. No matter the challenge, drawing on divinity will insure the best of your character comes through.

Never act alone; always bring your spirit along. With its help the ego gives way to inspired moments, and is brought beyond personal knowledge. This collaboration with Spirit provides the perfect solutions, and over time strengthens divine character.

Remember, karma teaches there are no undeserved injustices, and in doing so reveals the workings of love and mercy. And, through this intimacy with divinity brings us closer to truth and to God.

Remember that you are always responsible. Not necessarily at fault, or the cause, or even to blame. But, responsible for making situations in which you find yourself, better than the way they began. In doing so, fulfilling your obligation to help God be seen in the world.

Partner with no one in life but God. Lust for worldly success and happiness will tell you otherwise, the more the better. But God expects all of you, and only your best, free from distractions. And all of the time.

Renounce all expectations you have of others. Instead, understand them as doing the best they can to carry out God’s way. But be sure to never lower the expectations you place upon yourself to be your best. And if you discover you are, remind yourself that it is nothing more than the devil’s temptation.

Transcend your ego in all ways you can imagine, and as often as you possibly can. Renouncing one’s individuality and independence is both the personal sacrifice, and the blessing inherent in seeking divinity. And if so ordained, transforms one’s mind into that of the contemporary saint with a heart-realized awareness.