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If you struggle making people knowing Jesus, then you better revise your actions.
— Alin Sav
When you don´t grow in holiness, your grow in sin.
— Alin Sav
God is invisible for ignorants.
— Alin Sav
God cannot remember forgiven sins.
— Alin Sav
If Jesus is not enough, the person you met wasn´t Jesus.
— Alin Sav
Miracles happen when expectation meets faith.
— Alin Sav
The right faith gives you power to live with questions you have no answers for.
— Alin Sav
If there is no sunshine today, I decide to be their sunlight.
— Alin Sav
Focus! (said a voice within me). We are here to craft emotions. To become a better person.﻿ Not to waste our serenity on someone who had a poor upbringing and are not taught manners.
— Efrat Cytbulkiewicz
Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differences and disagreements too.
— Robin Sacredfire
We live in an energy-responsive world where intention radiates throughout. Fundamental to everything is attitude and perception
— Mohadesa Najumi
T-4.I.2. Many stand guard over their ideas because they want to protect their thought systems as they are, and learning means change. Change is always fearful to the separated, because they cannot conceive of it as a move towards healing the separation. They always perceive it as a move toward further separation, because the separation was their first experience of change.
— Foundation for Inner Peace, A course in miracles: Text, Vol. 1
Spirituality is about developing the inner sights by opening the third eye and the eyes of the heart.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego
— Kapil Kumar Bhaskar, Reminiscences Of A Seeker: Dark Face Of The White World
Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to ‘Truth’ but we, out of our own vested interests, wish to continue living in our own self-created illusions because it suits our purpose or fulfils our needs.
— Kapil Kumar Bhaskar, Reminiscences Of A Seeker: Dark Face Of The White World
Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves
— Kapil Kumar Bhaskar, Reminiscences Of A Seeker: Dark Face Of The White World
Free me as free is the forest fire, as is the thunder that laughs aloud and hurls defiance to darkness.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it.
— Munia Khan
You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.
— Shai Tubali, Indestructible You: Building a Self that Can't be Broken
Life is truly a matter of choices, reactions, and actions...each and every choice is governed by our reactions which in turn affect our actions and consequently the future turn of events
— Kapil Kumar Bhaskar, Reminiscences Of A Seeker: Dark Face Of The White World
Your weakest version and highest self both live within you. Yes they do.
— Ashlecka Aumrivani
How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?
— Matshona Dhliwayo, Dinner With King Solomon
No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.
— Flannery O'Connor, Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
For generations, the Gandhi family has been more spiritual than religious. This may seem to be a contradiction, but it is not. The Gandhis have drawn a clear distinction between two terms. Spirituality refers to the aspiration of our true nature, and ultimate realization of the Self. Religion, on the other hand, as in many cases come to mean a dogmatic observance of rituals that one practices at specified times of the day or week.
— Arun Gandhi, Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence
Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua
— Ted Dekker, A.D. 30
It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ.
— Oswald J. Smith, Man God Uses
Nature is made of vibrations of Love.
— João Mendes, Sound: The Fabric of Soul, Consciousness, Reality, and the Cosmos
I’m a dot in the grand scheme of things. I don’t matter, not even to the other dots.
— Ash Gray
You are the love and light the world needs to make it beautiful.
— Lorri Faye
Soldiers train for war, but pray for peace
— Mekael Shane
Do not give up on yourself as you encounter your worst version and do not take it easy as you experience your higher self.
— Ashlecka Aumrivani
Rating a book don't judge the book.It all depends upon the observation of the reader and how much he/she is free to be what he/she is in reality.Perceptions and observations will change according to what you have within and so the learning and the conclusion.The same thought you heard an year before and your conclusion in that regards may be different but after some time the same thought but totally new conclusion...How really important we are-Surprised!!Blessed!
— AS
In our dreams we find the dreams of others and in other’s dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.
— Robin Sacredfire
Sometimes the only thing we can do for people is pray.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and that only love is real.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Life is pushing you toward love.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit.
— Belsebuub, The Awakening of Perception: A Collection of Talks and Articles
Don't be afraid of emptiness. Emptiness is divine. Let the divine fill up the space in a way that is truly right for you. Trying to fill it up too soon blocks your gifts.
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
Planet Earth has rules that can’t be broken, no matter how rich or poor you are. You either have a nine to five job, you’re an artist constantly producing art, you’re a businessman, or you stay home cleaning and taking care of children. And no matter if you’re a man or a woman, the same rule applies to you. You break it, and life breaks you.
— Robin Sacredfire
Being human is a portal into your divinity,
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is calling you to do.
— Renae A. Sauter
Life is a journey learn how to evolve spiritually. 
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Talking empties you of the noisy silence within.
— Ashlecka Aumrivani
When you lose everything, you are free. You become a receiver.
— Ashlecka Aumrivani
No one taught us how to address our impulses. No one.
— Ashlecka Aumrivani
But finally, once in an age, there is a blink. And in that blink, you can be. And in that blink, I can be.
— Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness
Ego like bile over taste buds. Get it out or hold it in. It's the suspension will drive you nuts, churn your gut.
— Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness
How nice would it be to just drop from the tree, fall from forking branches a ripened fruit thudding your weight to earth without distraction, without option—thrust to ground under gravity's current to be gathered up and eaten or left there to decay and deposit that seed from the core of your being into the little plot of your death, lush ring of your composted fertilizing flesh.
— Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness
Let's ignore all that back and front matter and just stick to emergences, cross-sections, to what's right in front of us in the divide where all-things has come to gather and to stay though hidden yet behind its mask, which has got it looking so deliciously comprehensively like so many things-distinct.
— Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness
And you can't know it, because to know it is to be it, and to be it is to not be you.
— Patrick Bryant, Hum A Radiant Sickness
God is the Self of the world, but you can't see God for the same reason that, without a mirror, you can't see your own eyes, and you certainly can't bite your own teeth or look inside your head. Your self is that cleverly hidden because it is God hiding.
— Alan W. Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
It's the ego, not your soul which progresses when your passion turns into an obsession.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Changing your words, changes your mind. Changing your mind alters your energy and that is what changes your life.
— Jodi Livon, The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition
As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.
— Linda Hogan
Many people achieved important goals in their lives, but hardly any of them seemed any happier for it. Even worse, some complained that other areas of their lives had suffered along the way. The reason is simple: they didn’t change the framework components of their personality—beliefs, decisions, and other subconscious structures that are typically negatively-oriented. Those basic structures had been triggered by the fulfillment of the goal and were subsequently creating a mess in people’s lives.
— Nebo D. Lukovich, Coherence: The Ultimate Guide to Accomplishing Goals and Achieving Success Without Side Effects
There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.
— Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabulary of science we desire. We want a language of that different yield. A yield rich as the harvests of the earth, a yield that returns us to our own sacredness, to a self-love and resort that will carry out to others.
— Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.
— Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
Caretaking is the utmost spiritual and physical responsibility of our time, and perhaps that stewardship is finally our place in the web of life, our work, the solution to the mystery that we are. There are already so many holes in the universe that will never again be filled, and each of them forces us to question why we permitted such loss, such tearing away at the fabric of life, and how we will live with our planet in the future.
— Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
May you always find your intuitive voice and may the language of your intuition sing.
— Jodi Livon, The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition
This lasting change can essentially be achieved in two ways: through suffering or through wisdom. Either we painfully push forward through any obstacle or disappointment, learning our lessons the hard way and emerging from the experience more mature, or we choose a path of love, consciousness, and wisdom, which also makes us mature, but in a far more enjoyable and effective manner.
— Nebo D. Lukovich, Inner Peace, Outer Success: The Reintegration System: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Solving Problems and Achieving Goals with Cutting-Edge Mind Techniques
Remember, the thoughts you think, along with your feelings and emotions, control your vibration. Your vibration is a magnet and everything that comes to you is steel.
— Jodi Livon, The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition
In the Reintegration System, a problem or unwanted state of mind is viewed as a distinct part of the personality and reintegrated as such into the unity of one’s being.Every seemingly challenging part of our personality was initially part of the highest intention for our being. It is over time that it degraded and became a lower state of delusion. Our aim is to target such parts and work them back into the wholeness of our being.
— Nebo D. Lukovich, Inner Peace, Outer Success: The Reintegration System: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Solving Problems and Achieving Goals with Cutting-Edge Mind Techniques
In a world of knowledge and expertise, fame and fortune, status and ranks....nothing has the power to affect change as much as love and compassion.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others'. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.
— Francis Chan
What we see, what we say, and what we think is what we get.
— Jodi Livon, The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition
...the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as the vast universe settles itself. He unites his mind with the unnameable Subtle Origin of the multi-universe in which there is no past, present or future. This is how an integral being deals with his mind.
— Lao Tzu, Hua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu
To really be free of fear involves being free of the feeling of any personal responsibility of ownership for everything - even of our body. If we feel that we are a separate individual who personally owns or possesses even just a body, fear will hound us.What we feel we own is felt to be personal and what is felt to be personal is felt to be separate from others and life, and then fear seems warranted.But when nothing is experienced as personal then nothing is felt to be separate and fear falls away.So regardless of how much money, if any, we have in the bank and how many material possessions we own, each of us is invited to the deeper surrender of ‘owning without owning’.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
I’m often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don’t have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.
— Robin Sacredfire
If there are patterns of bound emotions then life will bring that to the surface as often as is needed for all feelings to now come and go naturally without any personal sense to them.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
Being born into this world involves taking on a conditioned view of identity - for a while at least. We are all conditioned from a very young age to believe that we are separate and incomplete, and that if we could only just get something additional then we will somehow become whole.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
Life knows exactly what it is doing and makes the way clear for those who are open.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
True intelligence is pure love which does not exclude or waste anything.Not even a grain of sand is excluded or wasted. There are no exceptions in what is set free and in what is in service to this setting free.Life, the formless, form and fragrance, knows exactly what it is doing.Life is pure, unfiltered Intelligence flowing as whatever shape is now appearing.It is alive and it is all calling us Home.Do you hear the grain of sand calling your name?It says, “Love.”Do you sense the truth of it?If not, lean in and ‘listen’ again - this time with the whole of your being.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
We are here not only to realize the truth of our being but to express it. If we realize who we are but still move from fear or a sense of obligation or cultural expectation, then the realization has not yet integrated into the whole of life.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
Mystical experiences are not required to blast fear out of our system and for us to stabilize in the sensing of oneness with the totality - only the willingness to move with however life is now flowing. With conscious movement now, all sense of separation between life and self dissolves, and life free of fear is realized and expressed.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
Any fear around ‘imperfection’ is a censoring of life now, and when we censor life we simply cannot sense our innate natural joy.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
God is my supermanI tug on his cape:
— Richard L.  Ratliff
The teaching, within most if not all religions, that states that the Divine is omnipresent is the full truth of it. But this is not something to be believed in but to be discovered and consciously lived.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
Life is pure loving intelligence. There are no mistakes.
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
But when the religious go within and discover God or Love directly, it is not possible to spread fear and hate. And, when those that are politically involved go within and discover Peace or Happiness directly, it is not possible to spread fear and hate. The 'religious' and the 'politically involved' are then speaking the same language ...
— Dhyana Stanley, The Human Experience Is the Dance of Heaven and Earth: A Call Home to Peace
So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.
— Gautama Buddha, Buddha
Love is the ultimate salvation of the soul.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Our work is not about transcending this world to get to a better place; our work is to be fully present here; to heal ourselves, and our planet in the spirit of service and compassion.
— Eileen Anglin
Many search for God in dramatic events, but he is more often veiled in simplicity and humility.
— Kristelle Angelli, Agnes' Gift: A heartwarming story about the power of the Rosary
I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don’t need to waste your time like they do.
— Robin Sacredfire
It is better to pray with a pure heart before the family altar than to perform gaudy ceremonies in a pagoda, clad in the robes of an unworthy bonze.
— Huỳnh Phú Sổ
All pre-Abrahamic cultures understood the tremendous importance of remaining closely connected to the past if the present was to be invested with any spiritually significant meaning. They also understood that the most personally relevant and accessible portal to the empowering wisdom and goodness of the past was through their own direct ancestors, those who shared their particular bloodline and DNA. It was for this reason that all traditional cultures engaged in what is often called ancestor worship (pitri-puja). There is no pre-Abrahamic culture on Earth that did not honor its ancestors in one form or another. This is a very important spiritual practice and tradition that used to be practiced universally by families in the ancient past. The process of ancestor worship now needs to be revived in the modern world if we are to not lose our sacred connection with our own cultural-spiritual heritage. Ancestor worship must become a regular practice again.
— Dharma Pravartaka Acharya
Blood memory is described as our ancestral (genetic) connection to our language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. It is the good feeling that we experience when we are near these things.
— Saginaw Chippewa
Those who preach bookish religion are the greatest atheists of all, because they don’t have the slightest idea of neither God nor religion. Their beloved religion is their book. And their God is in the doctrines.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree
I am not this hair and skin, I am the SOUL that lives within.
— Sukhraj Dhillon, Soul and Reincarnation: What Happens to Soul at the Time of Death
Give someone everything you can think of, the wings to fly and the roots to stay. If they chose none of these hold the door open for them with a smile
— Mohadesa Najumi
Study yourself. Become your own mentor and best friend. When you are suffering stay at the bottom until you find out who you are. Let the storms come and pass. How you walk through the fire says a lot about you. Nobody likes a victimhood mentality and what happened to you is not important. It is about how you use your chaos that matters. The dawn will come
— Mohadesa Najumi
Our society shuns people for being a bright light in the world. Sometimes if you are too futuristic people do not like how revolutionary you are
— Mohadesa Najumi
To see the beautiful and mystical in the other worlds, one first must see the beauty of one's soul
— Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
Happiness cannot be owned.It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.
— Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
Every soul has the essence of the Divine truth and love within them
— Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
It is in the moments of silence, that we can be taken to our own world where our real essence longs to be part of
— Mimi Novic, The Silence Between the Sighs
Have you ever been totally happy or at peace and then begun to worry for no apparent reason? We live in a constant battle of conflict and comparison. If you stop asserting the need to label or to judge, you'll learn acceptance and understanding which is the basis of inner-balance
— Mohadesa Najumi
when you look to some one, That moment you looked away from yourself.
— Dr DLN, Science, Religion & Spirituality
With the right kind of people life is wonderful
— Mimi Novic
The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.
— Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Racial prejudice has always been a difficult topic for me. On several occasions I've withdrawn from conversations that devolved into white bashing. I can never make a general negative statements based on whiteness. Tom didn't choose me without consideration for my race, but rather I think he chose me because of it.
— Francis Mandewah
Love’s voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart
— Munia Khan
The fact that our being necessarily demands to be expressed in action should not lead us to believe that as soon as we stop acting we cease to exist.We do not live merely to “do something” – no matter what. We do not live more fully merely by doing something more, seeing more, tasting more and experiencing more than we ever have before.Everything depends on the quality of our acts and experiences. A multitude of badly performed actions and experiences only half-lived exhausts and depletes our being.By doing things badly we make ourselves less real. This growing unreality cannot help but make us unhappy and fill us with a sense of guilt.There are times then when in order to keep ourselves in existence at all, we simply have to sit back awhile and do nothing. And for a man who has let himself be drawn completely out of himself by his activity, nothing is more difficult than to sit still and rest, doing nothing at all.We must first recover the possession of our own being before we can act or taste or experience reality.
— Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton
My story has more than a "great white hope" plot. I loved and respected Tom because he was a servant of God who happened to be white, just as I feel I am a servant of God who happens to be black and from Africa.
— Francis Mandewah, FRIENDSHIP: A True Story of Adventure, Goodwill, and Endurance
SINNERS are those who pretend to teach meditation
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
What does spirituality, money and happiness have in common? Everything.
— Robin Sacredfire
Live The Life That You Love
— Teresa St. Frances, What Happens the Day After?
Evils carries the numbers 666. I am an opposite. I am 999.
— Levon Peter Poe
You do not control everything, nor does everything control you. You are not entirely at the hands of your environment, nor is it entirely at the hands of you.
— Grace Sara
It had been drilled into us that to feel fear is to not fully trust God. Whoever made that up has never been beneath a cafeteria table with a tiny thread of someone else's blood trickling onto their leg.
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
The ego is the self that is unaware of itself so unless you seek first who you are not, the ego will use every technique, practice and experience for its own ‘spiritual growth’.The more ‘spiritual’ it becomes, the more into delusion it takes you.
— Maria Erving
Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.
— Munia Khan
The duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.
— Robin Sacredfire
Who we are and where we want to go determines what we do now and what we accomplish over time.
— Jimmy Tomczak, Lakeside and Tide: Inspiration For Living Your Best Life Now
The wicked ones make us better persons for those that deserve our attention. Nothing is really lost and wasted in this alchemical dance of life.
— Robin Sacredfire
Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness that is our origin and our destiny. It is the drop of water finding its way back into the ocean from which it came.
— Victor Shamas, The Chanters Guide: Sacred Chanting as a Shamanic Practice
Our desires, dreams and hopes, open portals. These portals manifest in our conscience and five senses, in the form of decisions related to the material world but also opportunities. Now, at the exact same time, or maybe even slightly before in time, we get the exact opposite, the temptation, the illusion and deception. And when we are about to make a decision, as if by magic, the two things come stronger to us, as if pushing us into a duality that makes it hard to decide. Now, this brings me to another super interesting fact: Most people assume that they have freewill, and that choices are hard to be made, and that life is full of dualities. And I've learned that this is just a great deception related to our planet, which, as human beings, we must transcend. And what I'm really saying here is that the duality and the freewill don't exist. There's only one choice to be made, the one that bring us upwards. Self-destruction is not a choice. And yet, every duality presents exactly that, and not really a choice.
— Robin Sacredfire
Om-nipotent, Om-nipresent, Om-niscient, Omall is wholly undivided, instructed the physicist, David Bohmthe enfolded and unfolded, that of formlessness and formfrom the implicate unmanifest to the explicate manifest bornoriginating from an underlying nonphysical orderemerges physical reality with its illusory bordersthe whole of existence exists in every wee partall is here now—the cosmos' stern, bow, starboard and portthe invisible portion of existence is pure potentialityawareness itself as a field of infinite possibilityphysical reality a holographic illusionscience says so—that's its conclusionthe new science is within and is up to youa simple experiment with loving prayer will dofollowing science honestly, one is led inward toowith zero biases, mind and reality are seen as not-twowho cares what proofs others are utteringlive it yourself or you know nothingmake a cloud square shape in a oneness experimentrepeat “thank you square cloud” with joyous, grateful intentthe results of this being easily duplicatableshows that a unitive conscious universe is no fableNative Americans have their time-tested rain dancea prayer to the Great Spirit resulting in watered plants
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
the subject of free will another debated topicdo we or don't we have the ability to pick?greatly controlled by mind at lower levels of consciousnessalmost non-existent, one's free will is notably lessat this level one’s actions are purely reactionarylacking self-awareness, animal instincts are primarynot going along with the mind, free will increasesthen higher up, it's surrendered until it ceasesthus, there both is and is not the capacity to chooseeven when we do it's limited by one's viewschoosing alternatively, with a mind conditioned and boundfree will, then, is at best constrained and drowned
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
opting to complain, life gives you things to complain aboutthis vicious circle ensures your happiness droughtlife responds to us according to our actions and beliefthus reinforcing those beliefs to no reliefthere is no first cause—still, break the cycleabide in peaceful Silence or experience an inner hell“others” are often a reflecting mirror shining backrevealing to us what loads are left to unstackwhat are friends for but a means to practice kindnessand for fortifying the ego’s belief in disconnectednesspeople cater to me according to my own natureso they are me—there is no individual self, rest assuredtweak your thoughts about her and she then treats you thusall minds are one, and all is illusory, as priorly discussedshe is you, and you, herthe shroud of separateness shall now henceforth witherlook back at your life’s recurring patterns and themesand the façade of the ego will start to crack at the seamsuntranscended mindsets follow wherever we gothe common denominator is what your mind has sownthat which supports life is automatically supportedthe get-gain-obtain mentality can be safely aborted
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
Maybe this planet is a paradise for the majority but to me feels like I'm traveling in hell and finding lost angels I must rescue.
— Robin Sacredfire
It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature; with every rood of land brought into cultivation, which is capable of growing food for human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture ploughed up, all quadrupeds or birds which are not domesticated for man's use exterminated as his rivals for food, every hedgerow or superfluous tree rooted out, and scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the name of improved agriculture. If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a better or a happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.
— John Stuart Mill
one morning in my early twenties when feeling quite suicidalI got into my locked car and someone had done a reversalthe Hawaiian necklace that hung on the rearview mirrorhad been turned around backwards in an event so queerin that moment I knew I was not alone in my strugglesand that all would be okay if I simply forgot my troubleslet it be known that you’ve got watchful guardian angelsI’ll tell you of yet another way that they make me so gratefultheir presence and assistance is often noticed as such:a shot of high frequency energy is felt as they touchreceiving a ringing in an ear while my mind goes meditativespiritually put back on track with a reminder of my objectivebecause of the prayers I practice this is how I’m aidedyour experiences may vary out of not caring to be persuadedhow often do you call out for help from on high?it’s their pleasure to assist if you’d just ask them to come byI can tell you straight away, they know your thoughtsand exactly how you’re feeling when you’re distraughtseeing you scanning this sentence as they’re in your presencedo you feel their love or have you taken a rigid stance?
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
everyone and everything a fluid living seaUniversal Consciousness as both you and mebeing in rapturous love with all life and every personbut this wasn't maintained and things were about to worsenego crept back in believing it was Enlightenedit turns out consciousness only temporarily heighteneda momentary samadhi can sometimes deceiveif untold by a Master because our mind is naïveask enlightenment teachers today about their ego deathdon't even need to for their answer we can already guessare they right this moment experiencing Allness?the spiritual ego is crafty and teaches regardlesstheir words proceeding from the intellect, Power is lackinga Divine Transference is required to send the ego packingif inspiration hits by all means sharebut state your current un-State or others you'll ensnareTrue Teachings are on a whole different levela powerful quieting effect, they silence the mentalmake no bones about it—dying to God is involvedif not ready for this step then observe truths lesser evolved
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
it appears various ancient Mystics had a hard time explainingwith their archaic languages lacking the words for detailing“the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost”the Trinity concept being misunderstood by a good hostthe Father is the immutable unmoving Godheadfrom whence the Holy Ghost flows to all widespreadthe Son, a physical expression in those whose self is deadGod can't be received fully if the “me” occupies spacethe sense of individual selfhood disappears without a tracethe higher nature of God is formless unmanifestedfrom it, this changing world of form is emanatedeverything is God, in God, all-inclusively unendingungraspable by brain-mind and its inferior comprehendingpeople wonder, “okay, but what created God?”contemplate “Eternal” or “Infinite” to see the query flawedAll is the Mind of God without exceptionincluding your Mind prior to conceptionformless No-Thing, yet Infinitely Everythingyet both, yet neither, for it's beyond expounding
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
being attached to any one philosophy or religiondwelling on moot differences and wanting to fit indespite the path all are led Home in timefollowing an alternative pathway is certainly no crimeKrishna, Buddha, Allah or Zohar Kabbalahdevoted nonviolently, one is led to NirvanaHindu Sages, Zen Masters or Christian Mysticsmany tongues, but identical truth spoken from their lipsmentioning Self or no-self or God is Father or Motheraccording to their culture emphasizing one method or anotherallness vs. nothingness, meditation vs. prayerdevotion in practice is all you should carewhen Truth reveals itself you're beyond all conceptionthen not a single man-made word will hold any traction
— Jarett Sabirsh, Love All-Knowing: An Epic Spiritual Poem
Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.
— Sadhguru, Mystic's Musings
Today people just go on working, working and working. Not because they are creating something fantastic, but simply because they have to work, otherwise they don’t know what to do with themselves.
— Sadhguru, Mystic's Musings
Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation.
— Victor Shamas
If you love someone, you will want to understand them and accept them as they grow and change; similarly, loving yourself involves a never-ending process of self-understanding and self-acceptance through life's ups and downs...we are finally coming to understand that love for neighbor and love for self naturally lead to love for the earth...if you love your neighbor as yourself, you want both them and you to be able to breathe, so you need to love clean fresh air...you want them and you to be able to drink, so you need to love pure water in all its forms...you want them and you to be be able to eat, so you need to care about the climate...." (p. 59-60)
— Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
Oppression theology and supremacist spirituality developed in the belief ecosystem of an angry God who needed appeasement in order to dispense grace, who favored some and disfavored others, and who welcomed the favored into religious institutions that accumulated and hoarded privilege and protected the status quo.
— Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases...Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.' This mentality generates inequality, which in turn generates 'a violence which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control'...changed individuals cross racial, religious, ethnic, class or political boundaries to build friendships. These friendship work like sutures, healing wounds in the social fabric. They 'humanize the other,' making it harder for groups to stereotype or scapegoat. They create little zones where the beloved community is manifest...They help people envision the common good--a situation where all are safe, free, and able to thrive. As my friend Shane Claiborne says, our problem isn't that rich people don't care about poor people; it's that all too often, rich people don't know any poor people. Knowing one another makes interpersonal change and reconciliation possible. (p. 167-168)
— Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
When our institutions lack movement to propel them forward, the Spirit, I believe, simply moves around them, like a current flowing around a rock in a stream...without that soul work that teaches us to open our deepest selves to God and ground our souls in love, no movement will succeed and no institution will stand...it is the linking of action and contemplation, great work and deep spirituality, that keeps goodness, rightness, beauty, and aliveness flowing...as Pope Francis has said, this moment calls for social poets: sincere and creative people who will rise on the wings of faith to catch the wind of the Spirit, the wind of justice, joy, and peace. (p. 180)
— Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
...churches would aim to take people at every age and ability level and help them become the most loving version of themselves possible. They would help people face the challenges of life--challenges that could make them bitter, self-absorbed, callous, or hateful--with openness, courage, and generosity. (p. 54)
— Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
There is no wisdom for a man without harmony, and without harmony there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there cannot be peace, and without peace can there be joy?
— Juan Mascaró, The Bhagavad Gita
You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.
— Iva Kenaz, Manifested
The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.
— A.W. Tozer, Tozer on Christian Leadership: A 366-Day Devotional
Play is a sacred act. When we are playing, the essence of all creation flows freely through us. We are expressing our true nature and connecting with the very core of our existence. Nothing is more spiritual than that.
— Victor Shamas
Southerners had a long tradition of looking for religious significance in even the most humble forms of nature, and I always preferred the explanations of folklore to the icy interpretations of science.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Your disbelief in God does not determine His existence. God is. Period. Whether you believe it or not.
— J.E.B. Spredemann
When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation.
— Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
Going through fear is one thing, being beyond it is another.
— Dyrr Keusseyan
I start every morning with a Rosicrucian ritual, meditation and exercise. I can't separate myself from this habit of connecting myself to the other realm every day, not anymore, because I'm actually more there than here. I always was, but now I know how to maintain this balance, even in solitude.
— Robin Sacredfire
Play is my Way. Fun is my destiny. Love and joy are my religion.
— Victor Shamas
I don’t see doctrines, when I talk about religions. All I see are different experiential realities of the one and the same neuronal Kingdom of God.
— Abhijit Naskar, Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
My name or yours doesn't matter, we all are mere drops in the ocean of divine consciousness, an extension of Supreme Power'.
— Vishal Chipkar, Enter Heaven
Spirituality gives strength of spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.
— Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.
— Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.
— Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
If we could treat every natural resource as a gift rather than a commodity, we would be on the path to sustainability. The difference is that a gift does not belong to us but to the universe. It comes into our lives from a source that is unknown and ultimately unknowable; eventually , it returns to its source.
— Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us are so caught up in the drama of our day-to-day existence that we have lost track of who we really are. But eventually, all of us will make the discovery of our true nature.
— Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
Self- Perception blossoms only in pure hearts! We have to first win our internal enemies. These are the enemies who damage the strong layer of conscience.
— Rajasaraswathii, Success-Talks : For Evolution of Your Success
We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned.
— Lise-Lotte Loomer, Greenhouse Hygge: The House of My Growing Dreams
Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed.
— Atalina Wright, Unbound
Why are we so desperate to escape the material world? Is it really so bleak? Or could it be, rather, that we have made it bleak: obscured its vibrant mystery with our ideological blinders, severed its infinite connectedness with our categories, suppressed its spontaneous order with our pavement, reduced its infinite variety with our commodities, shattered its eternity with our time-keeping, and denied its abundance with our money system?
— Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was no past. No future. Just now.
— Nina Hrusa
Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).
— Dada Bhagwan
Spiritual practices performed in the middle of our mundane days bring us into the presence of an astonishing God.
— Sharla Fritz, Soul Spa
It is a mistake to believe other person to be estranged. They all are our own Self’s-forms. However, that has to be realized, right? To believe the other person to be an alien means giving him a beating and that hurts our own-Self.
— Dada Bhagwan
A strong soul reaches anyplace, anytime; body fails to restrain it. And thus, perhaps soulmates are formed
— Munia Khan
The passionate hear touches the sky. The meditative mind enters it.
— Yasmine Sherif (The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session)
The passionate heart touches the sky. The meditative mind enters it.
— Yasmine Sherif (The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session)
Through contemplation we become a reflection of the soul rather than the head. And, in the soul dwells a greater mind.
— Yasmine Sherif (The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session)
The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
The reformation of society and restoration of spirituality should be our goal as Christians
— Sunday Adelaja
A sant is a person who apprehends that truth and reality converge.
— Unknown