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You have returned from the lesser jihad to the greater jihad (jihad alakbar).”His followers asked him what that greater jihad was. “The struggle against your passionate soul,” he replied.‘So what does this greater jihad entail?’ I asked him.‘It is the effort to practise our faith,’ Gai replied. ‘To pray five times every day is an effort, to veil one’s selfish desires and conduct life in accordance with Islamic ethics and laws. The greatest “spiritual warriors” are the saints armed not with weapons but with prayer and prayer beads.’ While it all made sense I wanted to know more about the idea that we needed to go out and fight jihad.
— Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
The candle cannot burn without fire, similarly, your spiritual greatness cannot be measured without hardships
— AbdulAziz Mohammed
Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.
— David W. Earle
Don't stop now. Keep going. The next time someone makes you feel though, winning as you are, perhaps you're getting too big for your britches; say to them silently, "i haven't even started yet.
— Marianne Williamson, A Woman's Worth
Everything originates first in the mind and all things are born there primarily. After the thought has occurred, manifestation happens.
— Poonam Dhandhania
Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth .... All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.
— Spencer W. Kimball
If you'd told me even a year before...that I'd wind up whispering my sins in the confessional or on my knees saying the rosary, I would've laughed myself cockeyed. More likely pastime?Pole dancer. International spy. Drug mule. Assassin.I drive under a sky black as graphite to meet my new spiritual director...a bulky Franciscan nun named Sister Margaret, patiently going blind behind fish-tank glasses that magnify her eyes like goggles.
— Mary Karr, Lit
All that we go through only happens to raise our vibrations. If we learn, we are raising it, the more we fight it, the lesser we learn, the more upset and unhappy we are.
— Poonam Dhandhania
Do not believe that you will get punished for the things you do. Just be honest to yourself and the people you love.
— Poonam Dhandhania
No one makes a lock without a key. That's why God won't give you difficulties without a solution!Your current situation may look Horrorful but don't worry your future will be colourful.
— Emmanuel Eliason-Armstrong
Meditation is yoga for the mind, just as there is yoga of the body.
— Poonam Dhandhania
Your walk with God does not depend on people,places,things or events.
— Henry Brandt
I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe; I knew that all that exists, exists of itself and not by the caprice of Iahveh; that the world is itself its own creator and the spirit its own God. Henceforth I despised Iahveh for his imposture, and I hated him because he showed himself to be opposed to all that I found desirable and good: liberty, curiosity, doubt.
— Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels
Be within your heart.See and feel with your heart.Recognize your heart within another.Speak words from the heart.Receive the words of another,within those precious chambers.
— Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power
In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.
— Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power
The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play and makes all things possible, or we mold our characters and events from our own experiences, or our dreams of wanting to experience.
— Judith Kohnen, One Chance, One Moment
Positive, truthful and helping people always get rewards. Oneness, love, compassion and enlightenment can be attained by following the spiritual laws of the universe." -Hina Hashmi
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.
— Ra Un Nefer Amen, Maat the 11 laws of God
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
— Rabindranath Tagore
This is what you do when you journal. You are recording God’s grand, epoch-spanning redemptive story as it unfolds in your limited, temporal sphere of existence here on earth. Your journal has the potential to record the continuation of the Holy Spirit’s work in our world!
— Adam L. Feldman, Journaling: Catalyzing Spiritual Growth Through Reflection
in my heart is rooted in lovelessness and thanklessness.... By contrast, every truly holy act, including even the inner desire to be holy, springs out of the love and worship that He has placed in my heart.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Idols of the Heart: Learning to Long for God Alone
There is good even in church people. You find it hard to believe, right? Jesus never shut the door on religious people. He just made sure that they understand He was that door, and not their deeds and tasks. Some of us, even I, need to be reminded of this. This being understood, the people of the church are like broken pieces of glass fixed into beautiful mosaic to reflect Jesus. The picture is beautiful, but the pieces do indeed still have sharp edges that can cut.
— Mea McMahon
When Jesus put on flesh, He made human existence “sacred.” Thus, when you are inhabited by Jesus through His Holy Spirit, your life takes on the “sacred” characteristic as well. This does not mean that you become God or incapable of sinning like Jesus was in His incarnation. However, it does mean that something is qualitatively different about you at the core.
— Adam L. Feldman, Journaling: Catalyzing Spiritual Growth Through Reflection
The deep self has been referred to by many names over the ages. You may know it as Essence, Spirit, Soul, Source...or, perhaps by no name at all. I prefer to call it The Inner Shaman...The Inner Shaman simply waits for your sanity, that glimmer of light or recognition on your part. In short, it is waiting for your readiness to be aware of it.
— José Luis Stevens, Awaken the Inner Shaman: A Guide to the Power Path of the Heart
When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you’ve ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you’ve ever acted on before.
— Calvin W. Allison, Growing in the Presence of God
There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
— Carrie Newcomer, A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays
Those that know, do not need explanations, and those that do not, would not understand any explanations.
— Michelle Frost, Wisdoms of the Light
Pay attention to your thoughts and your words, because they are responding with similar events
— Melki Rish, Your Mind Your Life : How To Create A Wonderful Life
A hand held tightly, never to really let go.Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul.
— Patty Smith
Good spiritual habits and routines turn into better lives.
— Amanda Penland
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
— Jonathan Edwards, Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
— Max Lucado, He Chose the Nails
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.
— Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things. I had been so busy creating a future of love that I never identified the life I was living as the life of love, because up until then I had never felt entitled enough or free enough or, honestly, brave enough to embrace my own narrative. Ironically, I had gone ahead and created the life I secretly must have wanted, but it had to be covert and off the record. Chemo was burning away the wrapper and suddenly I was in my version of life. Thus began the ecstasy - the joy, the pure joy of a spiritual pirate who finds the secret treasure.
— Eve Ensler, In the Body of the World
Your greatest challenge is to not be distracted by that which happens in front of you, or is pulling on you or calling to you, but instead to find your center and magnetize to yourself all those things that are in alignment with your inner being
— Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation
Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for it, and is willing to be altered by it. It is not a gift given without cost or transformation, nor one to be used lightly.
— Faith Hunter, Black Arts
For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living
— Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is and must be an interior and spiritual improvement in man before any of the glowing coals of humanity can be reached. They have cultivated everything but the goodness of man. The result of such shallowness is everywhere apparent.
— Francis Beauchesne Thornton, How to Improve Your Personality by Reading
We can all do so much more than we think we can. Wherever you think you are right now, you can go further, do better, be more than ever! What's wonderful is the future you're looking forward to and also your present potential right now! You're winning regardless. Both now and later.Celebrate you.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Oracle of Poetic Wisdom
Our Creator has always known of us and has always loved us.
— Michael Mannia, The Conditioned Mind
The other thing that’s happened with writing is that I’m not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years ago, I feared that sitting down with paper and pencil revealed too much desire and that for such ambition I would be punished. My vocabulary would contract anorexia, ideas would be born autistic, even titles would not come to flirt with me anymore. I suppose this was tied to that internal judge, the serpent who eats her own tail. She insinuates you’re not good enough; you believe her and try less, ratifying her assessment; so you try even less; and on and on. This snake survives on your dying. Finally, now, the elided words of my wisest writing teacher, the poet David Wojahn, make sense. “Be ambitious,” he said, “for the work.” Not for the in-dwelling editor. That bitch was impossible to please anyway.
— Marsha L. Larsen, Friending God: A Woman's Quest through a Social Network
The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Transparency has existed ever since there has been a man and the sky above him. For the past ten thousand years every new day has offered a simple experience with its own spectacle; from a day sky into the sky at night; from oneself into the vast universe. Imagine creating the House of Tears where the heart can be educated in the ways of the sky; transcending itself. Transparency is its step, door and fireplace. Becoming one with it, is its windows.
— Adam Kovacevic
But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.
— Paul David Tripp, Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.
— Gary   Hopkins
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
— A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.
— Gary   Hopkins
You can think of your body in two ways: 1. As mechanical, like an automobile worth only so many miles or 2. As a living breathing energetic vessel manifested from spirit. Either way will greatly effect the length and quality of your life. Choose wisely.
— Gary   Hopkins
I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.
— Gary   Hopkins
Those who listen with their hearts will begin to see patterns everywhere.
— Grace-Naomi
It wasn’t every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the better.
— Jonathan Kuiper, Running with Vince
Take one day at a time and be aware that every moment and interaction serves a purpose. We are here to learn, love, and share.
— Jonathan Kuiper, A Lightworker's Perspective
The higher our consciousness the less we are affected by our environment, including race consciousness.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu
Science and Spirituality are two sides of the same coin and we cannot separate one from the other. Science is trying to find the truth in an objective or physical manner where as spirituality tries it subjectively or metaphysically.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu, God Does Not Roll Dice
The purpose of four incarnative existence is the evolution of the soul. It is to learn, grow and become master of our own life.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu
For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.
— Jeff Leake, God in Motion
The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.
— Steven J. Lawson, The Kind of Preaching God Blesses
God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call ‘Cosmic Laws’ or ‘Natural Laws’ or ‘Universal Laws’.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu, God Does Not Roll Dice
People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest
— Gary   Hopkins
If we're not at peace, we are in an ego state.
— Doreen Virtue, The Lightworker's Way: Awakening Your Spirtual Power to Know and Heal
And so I urge you to still every motion that is not rooted in the Kingdom. Become quiet, hushed, motionless until you are finally centered. Strip away all excess baggage and nonessential trappings until you have come into the stark reality of the Kingdom of God. Let go of all distractions until you are driven into the Core. Allow God to reshuffle your priorities and eliminate unnecessary froth. Mother Teresa of Calcutta said, 'Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.' That is our first task: to grip the hands of Jesus with such tenacity that we are obliged to follow his lead, to seek first his Kingdom.
— Richard J. Foster, Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World
Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles, then this simple fact should drastically re-define every limitation that you think you have.
— Gary   Hopkins
The spirit, my love,is stronger than laughter,stronger than the hungry pantingof reckless lionsthat paw and shuffle underneath the canopy of bowed trees,stronger than the pace of a dying heart, that awaits to be pumped to life by episodes mothered by time,by hands of mankind,by slivers of hopehidden in the common mind.
— V.S. Atbay
The abode of the spirits are astral world and earth land counterparts. In the path of evolution, the soul is futile. You need a body to unfold consciousness.
— Usha Cosmico
The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.
— Gary   Hopkins
The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World.
— Paulo Coelho
Peace is something that comes from within. It is created by your willingness to accept yourself.
— Jason Nelson, Empower Our Children: God's Call to Parents, How to Heal Yourself and Your Children
HONESTLY ....I believe people are intimidated with truthful/ outspoken people. HONESTY..... will help you grow and it shows maturity.HONEST.....people will push you closer towards your destiny.
— Takina Cupp
A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the voice of conscience.
— Debra Moffitt, Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery
The two most challenging tasks a man can face in life is education of the heart and education of the child-every other task he contemplates in life before him pales in comparison to those two. On this path of absolute uncertainty, the descending heart will permiate the education of the mind... An initiation rite for young heart. An initiation rite for young men.
— Adam Kovacevic
When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.
— Gary   Hopkins
The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive
— Gary   Hopkins
When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up
— Gary   Hopkins
You fill a bucket drop by drop. You clear your mind thought by thought. You heal yourself moment by moment. Today I make one drop, clear one thought, and get present to one moment. And then I do it again.
— Lisa Wimberger, New Beliefs, New Brain: Free Yourself From Stress And Fear
Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art
— Gary   Hopkins
Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.
— Gary   Hopkins
Making peace with one's truth is to live in one’s own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Never allow dogmatic interpretations of Karma to keep you from defending what is right or just. You must accept the reality that on occasion, you may very well be the proper instrument of this cosmic force.
— Gary   Hopkins
Maintaining one’s health in today’s toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices
— Gary   Hopkins
When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing.
— Lisa Wimberger, New Beliefs, New Brain: Free Yourself From Stress And Fear
If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently on course to learn similarly grave lessons from other devastating technologies such Genetically Modified Foods, Chemtrails and HAARP.
— Gary   Hopkins
The smallest component of the human molecule is a vibration - the equivalent to a musical note. Taking the time to learn more self-awareness at this level creates life experiences beyond that of all the greatest symphonies ever heard
— Gary   Hopkins
Do not limit your Sacred Space to the literal, such as a small room or office. Allow this energy to flow from deep within, so that every where you go, no matter what the circumstance, you will always be immersed in the divine
— Gary   Hopkins
A person can choose to stand against adversity, but most people will run from it before they come to terms with who they truly are, a wise person watches through adversity and follows the signs when it is their turn to stand.
— Faith Brashear
Loneliness is a condition of energetic imbalance. As with all human conditions it is an illusion, albeit a very debilitating one if left unchecked. The key to overcoming any imbalance is to open your awareness to it, and then simply observe it. By observing the imbalance, the anguish of the emotional aspect dissipates allowing a new perspective to emerge, which ultimately has a smoothing effect on the imbalance itself. A focused mind over a short period of time can conquer any energetic imbalance… even loneliness
— Gary   Hopkins
When you take a moment to peel back the layers of time and space in your current state of perception, you soon begin to realize the true nature of the self and it's reality. Increasing your self-awareness naturally fosters compassion and integrity in all actions and attitudes towards oneself and others
— Gary   Hopkins
Determination Determines Your Destination
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier
with knowledge peace
— Troy Zakrzewski
Attaining bliss can take lifetimes, or one can simply choose to experience it in their deepest dreams. Sleep well my friend, as dreams are vehicles that can quickly take you to the awareness that you call Nirvana
— Gary   Hopkins
I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!
— David R. Hawkins
Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.
— Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
...letting go of attachment to any way of believing or thinking has made me feel more expanded and almost transparent so that universal energy can just flow through me.
— Anita Moorjani, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.
— Anita Moorjani, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
Removing toxicity from your life is essential to maintaining a peaceful state of mind and an overall quality of health. This purging can and should include any detrimental habits, including negative, controlling, and abusive people. Once you start living an empowered lifestyle that supports your own higher balance, you will find it to be an easy transition from the negative to the positive in every aspect of your life
— Gary   Hopkins
Allowing attachments to people/things create a compulsive addiction in us to be controlling. This “control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us into a false sense of security and love. At first glance, it is common to confuse the idea of Conscious Detachment with non-feeling or being cold, however learning this skill is a giant leap towards enlightenment. When you consciously detach from an object or a loved one, you empower them to exist at their potential. From this perspective, just being in their presence fosters feelings of love and admiration that far exceed any relationship that is limited with expectations, confinement and control
— Gary   Hopkins
Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others
— Gary   Hopkins
We create the world around us based on our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and emotions. Evil, dark forces, dark energy etc. are forms of the “negative” and are all a projections of the self. There is no separation. Once one realizes this, these energies start to fade and eventually disappear. What’s left is wholeness, contentment, self-realization, gratitude and a perpetual state of well-being. There is a popular saying amongst the healing community “where the mind goes, energy flows”. Use this mantra to your benefit. Lose the “non-sense” of all despair and anguish and catapult your self to a higher place that is incapable of entertaining the “negative” or “destructive”. Achieving this (even in increments) will only transform you to into a better positive place
— Gary   Hopkins
You will always have time for what you make time for
— Gary   Hopkins
Enlightenment is nothing more than moments of self-awareness. Don’t let cultural spiritual hierarchy intimidate you into the mindset of unworthiness. You are divine already, you just need to realize and accept it
— Gary   Hopkins
Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us
— Gary   Hopkins
We are figments of the same imagination… We are one
— Gary   Hopkins
Sometimes we fall into the negative so deeply that we do not realize our first instinctive reaction to everything is to think negatively or to "look" for the bad in every situation. The phrase "too good to be true" directly comes from this aspect of ourselves. To be cautious can be good in certain situations, but to dismiss every interaction or idea to the possibility of "bad things happening" puts us in a place where the beautiful or the divine never gets a chance to fully blossom. Mind your thoughts carefully, as you are the only one who can allow happiness to thrive in your life
— Gary   Hopkins
The ripple that travels across water does not begin on its own. In order to create positive change one must act upon the intention. Creating a new idea is simple, but is just the beginning. Manifesting an idea into our perceived reality, the physical world, requires action to begin and diligence to maintain, just like any habit that already exists
— Gary   Hopkins
Taking part in your own creation is as simple as changing your mind. The way you think literally creates your everyday reality. Obsessive and negative thinking fosters a negative or even hostile lifestyle. Positive and constructive thoughts create happiness and contentment in the same manor. The fortunate thing for us is that the frequency wave of a positive thought far exceeds that of a negative one, so even if we suffer through a bout of depression or anger, a few positive thoughts can easily reverse the damage we have created in ourselves
— Gary   Hopkins
We are all Masters. Every thought, word, and action creates our individual reality from one moment to the next. Each individual’s creation, combines to form a shared reality that we all experience…. Consciousness. Being Masters requires us to take responsibility and great care in all that we do, so that the greater, combined consciousness is not hindered by our individual limitations. As Masters, we all have the ability to create, and live in Nirvana. Actively engaging in this personal responsibility, gives each of us the power to live harmoniously as well as to contribute positive re-enforcement to the greater Consciousness that we all share
— Gary   Hopkins
Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the quickest way to alleviate the methodical destruction of this dark energy
— Gary   Hopkins
Think of a world where “Detachment”, “Gratitude” and “Empathy” were subjects included in every grade school’s curriculum. A new generation would emerge with an attitude of peace, contentment and an overall appreciation for everything and everyone
— Gary   Hopkins
Peace is possible, and it will take a miracle.
— Robyn Short, Prayers for Peace
Even an expert has room to improve, grow and learn a little more. All the great masters teach this. For this reason, never allow an expert’s ‘opinion’ to limit you in any way, whether it is with your intellect, accomplishments or illness and disease
— Gary   Hopkins
When you refuse to entertain the possibility of a solution because you “know” it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand
— Gary   Hopkins
Anything worth having doesn’t come easy' is a perception of negativity perpetuated by misery looking for company. Accept nothing but the opposite of this intention and soon your life will navigate away from perpetual negative thinking and outcomes to the endless positive quality of life that exists for all of us
— Gary   Hopkins
The road to spiritual enlightenment is an individual experience. The spiritual leader, guru, master or teacher is only a portion of that journey. Eventually, one must “leave the nest” so that they are not limited by the master/student relationship. True advancement begins when the student gains confidence as a practitioner of self-awareness. This can only be done without the constraints of another’s journey, such as the master or teacher.
— Gary   Hopkins
Inner Awareness is often gained in incremental steps at first. The distraction of the perceived physical world dictates this. However, once one realizes this process, a new skill in “awareness recognition” emerges… and like riding a bike for the first time, one peddles faster, gaining confidence in their new skill, a skill that will take them much farther than any distraction previously experienced
— Gary   Hopkins
A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer that you need to step into enlightenment
— Gary   Hopkins
Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and more efficient form of Self-Management. With practice, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and physical manifestations merge into a more harmonious state. This state of being allows for a softer, more gentile approach to life that not only benefits the individual, but the community as a whole
— Gary   Hopkins
To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself
— Gary   Hopkins
God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
Don't Believe Everything You Think!
— Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we no longer even seek to become Mystic, Magister, Sorcerer, or Witch: we seek only our own perfection in the wholeness of our Will, in the joining of light with dark and strength with love. We are varied and gorgeous yet pure of heart. Our aim is this: to know ourselves and to know the world.
— T. Thorn Coyle
Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself.
— Jon Acuff
Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
There can be no substitute for a personal study of the Word of God! Daily devotionals, Bible commentaries, and recorded messages by anointed preachers and teachers are wonderful and useful. However, they cannot take the place of the Word of God. They must not replace a time of personal study of the Word. Every Christian individual must study and meditate upon the Word for him or herself. Nobody can do that for anyone else.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, anybody who is afflicted by any phobia can be set free.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
it’s more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.
— Edward Shirley
The devil is a bad devil.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
Interpreters package and then sell, rent, or impose upon us artificially flavored illusions of truth, salvation, enlightenment, and happiness that are built upon their goals. That twisted information and those errant goals and are often very different from those of the original teachers that these interpreters are borrowing moral authority from. Following our own inner guidance would yield better results than following the village idiot. Neither Buddha nor Jesus was waiting for a Buddha or a Jesus to come solve their personal problems or those of humanity. The key to whatever we need is within us. The job of uncovering it is ours to do.
— Doug "Ten" Rose
Our faith is watered and we flourish when we reach out to others in love. We think good times and comfort will make us happy. But history shows that the people who are filled with the most joy and contentment are those who reach out to others-despite tough times
— Laurie Ostby Kehler, Wings of Mercy: Spiritual Reflections from the Birds of the Air
If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.
— Audrey Conn
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
— Harry Emerson F.
True Christian Living is the willingness to deny yourself and consider pleasing God and obedience to Him to be your highest calling in life no matter what station you are in. The things that you do in secret for God will be of more value in His Sight then the pleasures of this world and doing what people think you should do.
— Anya vonderLuft
... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.
— Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Living is a risk,' I snapped at him. 'Every decision, every interaction, every step, every time you get out of bed in the morning, you take a risk. To survive is to know you're taking that risk and to not get out of bed clutching illusions of safety.
— Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study
I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.
— A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz
Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.
— Johnny Depp
It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.
— Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You
Our bodies need regular washing because we get dirty everyday. But so do our hearts! Because each day, people hurt us, offend us, forget us, snub us, step on us, reject us. But if we choose to forgive everyone everyday, we cleanse our hearts! We wake up the next morning refreshed and pure and lovely!
— Bo Sánchez, You Have The Power to Create Love: Take Another Step on the Simple Path to Happiness
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better
— Walt Disney Company
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.
— Thomas Carlyle
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
You need to be able to fill that space on your own, Maddie. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.
— Bob Marley
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
— Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories
As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.
— Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
I waited for my thighs and butt to uncramp. Of course, they didn't know the loosening rule. They were screaming things like *Are you crazy? Do you know we're thirty-five years old? Sit down and feed us a Twinkie!
— P.C. Cast, Divine By Mistake
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
— Isocrates
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster
—  they tell you nothing about the future.
Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
— Steven Tyler, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?
But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.
— Chris Colfer
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?""Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
— Helen Keller, Light in my Darkness
She'd decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong and she would be weak, and both would be okay.
— Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
You Got to know when to hold em' , Know when to fold em' , know when to walk away, know when to run. 
— Nikki Turner
Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?""Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
A lamb in a city of wolves.
— Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever
If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen
— Amy Lee
We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.
— Mercedes Lackey, Intrigues
Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.
— Marjorie M. Liu, The Iron Hunt
There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.
— Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Even when you think things can never move forward and you feel so low, there's always a way out.
— Katie Piper, Beautiful
Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.
— Susan Mallery, The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\Coming Unraveled\Home to Summer Island
Because...Beacause it's so good, and there's only one chance to read a book for the first time, and I want it to last. That experience. I'd finish it in a day otherwise, and that'd be like...like eating a carton of ice cream in one sitting. Too much richness over too quickly. This way, I can draw it out. Make the book last longer. Savor it. I have to since they don't come out that often.
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
There isn't a soul on the planet who doesn't crave your approval.
— Mike Dooley
Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.
— Plutarch
I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy
— Jessica Dovey
Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.
— Katie Piper, Beautiful
By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
— Russell Brand
And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.
— Neil Gaiman
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
— Lauren DeStefano
Every man must do two things alone
—  he must do his own believing and his own dying..
Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge
— Patricia Cornwell, Postmortem
Having gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not deliver it.
— Thomas S. Monson
Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.
— Izzeldin Abuelaish, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.
— Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.
— Izzeldin Abuelaish, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Somebody said it couldn't be done.But he with a chuckle replied,That maybe it couldn't, but he would be oneWho wouldn't say so 'till he'd tried.So he buckled right in with a trace of a grinOn his face. If he worried, he hid it.He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldn't be done. And he did.Somebody scoffed, "Oh, you'll never do thatAt least no one ever has done it."But he took off his coat, and he took off his hat,And the first thing we know, he'd begun it.With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,Without any doubting or "quit-it".He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldn't done. And he did it.There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done.There are thousands to prophesy failure.There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,The dangers that wait to assail youBut just buckle in, with a bit of a grin;Just take off your coat and go to it.Just start in to sing as yout tackle the thingThat cannot be done--and you'll do it!
— Edgar A. Guest
Singing is my pleasure, but not in church, for the parson said the gargoyles must remain on the outside, not seek room in the choir stalls. So I sing inside the mountain of my flesh, and my voice is as slender as a reed and my voice has no lard in it. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have been. But does it matter if the place cannot be mapped as long as I can still describe it?
— Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun.
— Ksenia Anske
Everyone is beautiful...it just takes the right person to see it
— Singh Amendra
When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a personal day, but then you show back up or you won't get paid. Everyone develops his/her own strategy for dealing with days that are not productive.
— Charlaine Harris
Don't try to be different, that's not you, but just try to be yourself & that will make all the difference.
— Michael Moses
Do you know a better time than the present for igniting your dreams?
— Carolyn Tody, A Whimsical Holiday for Children
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
— Robert Sheckley, Immortality, Inc.
If you don't keep moving, you'll never get anywhere.
— Alicia McCalla
Bent but never broken
—  down but never out.
The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you
— Miguel Ruiz, Prayers: A Communion with Our Creator
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
— James A. Garfield
Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.
— Mercedes Lackey, The Wizard of London
There are some people that see the half full cup and get upset about where the other half of the cup went... With an attitude like that, they will never be happy. I see a half full cup and I immediately take half of someone else’s cup and then I have a full cup and I’m happy. With the right attitude, life is really very simple." Peter Pan from 'Leaving Neverland' (Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations)
— Daniel Prokop, Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations
I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity.
— Leonard Seet
Remember that in life, everything that you want is outside of your comfort zone. Because if something is inside your comfort zone, it's either something you already have or something so trivial as to be undesirable: you don't want something you already have. So in order to get what you want but don't yet have, you have no choice but to venture outside of your comfort zone.
— Ali Binazir, The Tao Of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide To Being Absolutely Irresistible
Life is more interesting when you colour outside the lines
— Sonya Watson
A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.
— Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
He was realist enough to know he might never find the life partner he longed for, and dreamer enough not to quit looking
— Eden Winters, The Wish
Now that you're a Skinny Bitch, don't turn into a skinny bitch. We conceived of the title, Skinny Bitch, to get attention and sell books.... But we are not bitches, and we have no desire to promote bitchiness. There is nothing uglier than a pretty woman who's nasty. If you look great, you should feel good about yourself and be happy.
— Rory Freedman, Skinny Bitch
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
— Oscar Wilde
It's not important that we agree with each other, only that we understand each other.
— Raquel Cook