Quotes

• “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~ Joseph Campbell
• “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.” ~ Henri J. M. Nouwen
• “Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.” ~ Swami Shivananda
• “Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.” ~ Maya Angelou
• “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Teilhard de Chardin
• “You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.”
• “You don’t need to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
• “Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.”
• “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.”
• “Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true.”
• “When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.”
• “Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.”
• “What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?”
• “No evidence will convince you of the truth of what you do not want.”
• “How simple is the Great Way to Salvation. All it says is that the world you see has nothing to do with reality. It is of your own making and does not exist. All it says is what was never true is not true now, and never will be. The impossible has not occurred and can have no effects. And that is all. Can this be hard to learn by anyone who wants it to be true? You need simply let yourself be as you truly are and have always been.”
• “Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.”  ~ Eckhart Tolle
• “If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.” ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• “True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
• “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts… take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
• “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
• “We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.” ~ Epictetus
• “Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, interbalancing, ever-moving energy fields of life, leaving a permanent record for all of time. This realization can be intimidating when it first dawns on us, but it becomes a springboard for rapid evolution.” ~ David R. Hawkins
• “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” ~  Benjamin Disraeli
• “Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.”
• ” Cherish your vision; Cherish your ideals; Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.” ~ James Allen
• “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
• “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.” ~ Erich Fromm
• “Your soul mission is your reason for being, your life purpose. It’s your calling in life–who you feel called to be, what you feel called to do. Mission is an energy that flows through you–a drive, voice, or passion that you cannot ignore… It’s what you know in your heart you must live if you are to experience inner peace and harmony.” ~ Alan Seale
• “Would any one of us undertake even a journey of a few hundred miles without knowing why, without having some purpose? And yet, so many of us live, undertaking not a chance task, but the great Task of life itself… and yet we ask not why.” ~  J. J. Van Der Leeuw
• “Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to make more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is in reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.” ~ Margaret Young
• “Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny–he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally–you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.”
• “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what’s real.” ~ Doc Childre
• “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, serenely, divinely aware.” ~ Henry Miller
• “It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience – to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears – and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
• “To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
• “Eternity is not the hereafter…this is it. If you don’t get it here you won’t get it anywhere.” ~ Joseph Campbell
• “Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.” ~ Voltaire
• “Look lovingly upon the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true.”
• “The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others.” ~ David R. Hawkins
• “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” ~ Thomas Merton
• “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” ~ Mother Teresa
• “The Buddha’s teachings on love are clear. It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are by our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.” ~ Thaddeus Golas
• “The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so.” ~ David R. Hawkins
• “It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
• “The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given — to love unconditionally?” ~ John Morton
• “To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.” ~ Gandhi
• “Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.” ~  Ram Dass
• “Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” ~ Marianne Williamson
• “Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.” ~ Deepak Chopra
• “As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
• “First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
• “It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.” ~ P.D.Ouspensky
• “The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.” ~ P.D.Ouspensky
• “Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical – mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.” ~ P.D. Ouspensky
• “It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the “I Am,” our real presence, can awaken.” ~ G.I.Gurjieff
• “Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.” ~ G.I.Gurjieff
• “Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you’ve CHOSEN is at hand.  You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” ~ Deepak Chopra
• “Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

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