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• To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

  Thomas Merton

  Lying, Frustration, Light

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

  Katrina Kenison

  Inspirational, Prayer, Being Alone

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• The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

  M. Scott Peck

  Growth, Path, Joyful

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

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• The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.

  Bhagawan Nityananda

  Yoga, Heart, Roaming

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• Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

  Aberjhani

  Inspirational, Faith, Peace

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Yoga, Mean, Meditation

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• Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

  Dan Brown

  Wisdom, Truth, Light

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.1067, Random House

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• The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
  some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
  On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
  The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Acceptance, Thinking, Creating

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• When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Disappointment

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• No one is forgotten. It is a lie, any talk of God that does not comfort you.

  Meister Eckhart

  Lying, Comfort, Doe

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• Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

  Meister Eckhart

  Running, Solitude, World

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• Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

  J. I. Packer

  Thinking, Dwelling, Meditation

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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• One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

  Mother Meera

  Inspirational, Mistake, Reality

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• Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

  Harold Klemp

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, God, Courage

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• We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

  Novalis

  Literature, Invisible, Connected

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Needs, Wise Words, Enough

  "Joy and Mercy". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, November 1991.

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• On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Levels

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• To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

  Alan Watts

  Religious, Men, Alive

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• If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.

  Harold Klemp

  Love, Life, Heart

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• It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Change, Dream, Religious

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Nature

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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