Spirituality Quotes - Page 40

• In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Helping, Help Yourself

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• 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

  Spiritual, Fall, Mean

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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• Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Forever, Who Cares

  Interview with Sunny Massad, realization.org. May 16, 2017.

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• The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Real, Desire

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• 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. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Spiritual, Eye, Hands

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• What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Compassion

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• The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Spiritual, Feelings, Events

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• If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

  David Deida

  Love, Spiritual, Order

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop greater resolve to put an end to the causes of suffering and the unwholesome deeds which lead to suffering. And it will increase your enthusiasm for engaging in the wholesome actions and deeds which lead to happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Joy, Suffering

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• The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Spiritual, People, Negative

  "The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1950.

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• All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Spiritual, Ideas

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.64, Penguin

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• It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Get Well

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• At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Spiritual, Eye, Land

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• All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Ideas, Causes

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• To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

  Epictetus

  Spiritual, Virtue, Easy

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• Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future, be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Spiritual, Moving, Enlightenment

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• Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Prayer, Lying

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Tests

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• I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.

  Robert Ringer

  Spiritual, Believe, Our Actions

  Robert J. Ringer (1990). “Million dollar habits”, Wynwood

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• We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Practice, Drawing, Hatred

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• As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Principles, Found

  Guy Finley (2004). “Let Go and Live in the Now: Awaken the Peace, Power, and Happiness in Your Heart”, p.51, Red Wheel

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• When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

  Epictetus

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Thinking

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• If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  Muriel Spark

  Death, Practice, Eggs

  "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The comforters; The only problem; The driver's seat; Memento mori".

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• Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Running, Spiritual, Reality

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