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• It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Dimensions

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• As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happy, Spiritual, Peace And Happiness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.43, Parallax Press

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Long, Silence

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.127, Random House

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• I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

  Jean Houston

  Life, God, Believe

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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• Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it... if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.

  Shary Boyle

  Art, People, Want

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• 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

  Spiritual, Order, World

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• On the first of May, with my comrades of the catechism class, I laid lilac, chamomile and rose before the altar of the Virgin, and returned full of pride to show my blessed posy. My mother laughed her irreverent laugh and, looking at my bunch of flowers, which was bringing the may-bug into the sitting-room right under the lamp, she said: Do you suppose it wasn't already blessed before?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Mother, Blessed, Flower

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• The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Inspiration

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  Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean

  Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

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• The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Parent, Practicals

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• The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Steps, Dogma

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• 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 -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Decision, Certain, Universe

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• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Basketball, Spiritual

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.75, New World Library

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• Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Long, Sorrow

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• True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  "Reading God's Mind: His Thoughts for Every Life Situation". Book by Dottie Eichhorn (p. 171), 2011.

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Home, Acceptance

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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• Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Travel, Attitude

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

  Dean Hamer

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