5 Quotes & Sayings By Richard Dahlstrom

Richard Dahlstrom is a licensed psychologist, certified counselor, and certified hypnotherapist who has worked in private practice and in hospitals and schools in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1974. He has authored over 30 books including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hypnosis, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the OBE, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). He is a regular columnist for several publications including Psychology Today, the New York Times, and the Huffington Post.

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But what we did yesterday isn't ever really the point or the question. The question is, are you open, by virtue of your relationship with this new Lover of yours, to being challenged in new ways, invited in new ways, to participate in what God is doing? The overwhelming testimony of the Bible is that too many finish growing long before they have finished living, and so they complete their days sitting on their assets. That's hardly the abundant life that Jesus came to give. Richard Dahlstrom
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When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn't tell us to go to church. He didn't tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place to place in search of just the right programming to entertain us. He told us to get out and actually do the stuff he'd already been doing, painting the hope of God's reign on the canvas of God's world. He told us we're artists. . Richard Dahlstrom
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We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us. Richard Dahlstrom
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Thankfully, God has shown us that hope, in its million different forms, always springs from three primary colors: justice, mercy, and love. Richard Dahlstrom