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Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.
— Sasha Graham, Tarot Fundamentals
Blessed and fortunate creature, your eyes shall behold Him and not another's. All that you are, sins apart, is destined, if you will let God have His good way, to utter satisfaction. The Brocken spectre 'looked to every man like his first love', because she was a cheat. But God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it--made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand
— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
...if thou art persuaded that God is true, why dost thou doubt of his promises?—and if thou believest that God is beauty and perfection itself, why dost not thou make him alone the chief end of all thine affections and desires? for if thou lovest beauty, he is most fair; if thou desirest riches, he is most wealthy; if thou seekest wisdom, he is most wise. Whatsoever excellency thou hast seen in any creature, it is nothing but a sparkle of that which is in infinite perfection in God...
— Lewis Bayly, The Practice Of Piety
Your Soul sees your best, most vital self. She holds that vision when you do not. She knows you are worthy.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore.
— Janice  Anderson
It is pure devotion that consistently, unwaveringly moves us from control to Soul.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
Instead of making decisions based on safety, security, or practicality, the Soul wants us to live our lives according to what we find to be most beautiful.
— Elisa Romeo, Meet Your Soul: A Powerful Guide to Connect with Your Most Sacred Self
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers.
— Amit Ray
Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.
— Janice  Anderson
Gratitude enables you to be fearless, and to never shy away from reveling in every moment of your life.
— Janice  Anderson
I could feel a deep connection to Spirit in every glorious sunset and awesome wonder in every uncurling flower, but I couldn’t feel anything like that in the hollow words of men gone by.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff, The Call of the Spectacled Owl
I would not say I was a nonbeliever; rather, that I gave little if any thought to celestial concerns. It did not seem to me that God, whoever he was, would be the sort of god to take an interest in the minutiae of human affairs, or that this fact released us from the duty to go about our lives in a spirit of decency to others.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and actions--what will you reflect?
— Janice  Anderson
This body is the house of God.
— Kamand Kojouri
Maybe the moon just lost herself gazing too long at the brilliance of the sun and that’s how she got her glow. And maybe we’re made of the same mysterious sort of magic that makes us magnify and mirror whatever we look at the most.
— Cristen Rodgers
That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?
— Peter Shaffer, Equus
What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with?
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
Allowing myself to wander off into the vast jungles of religion and spirituality has often led to me stumbling upon life altering new ways of thinking, living, and being.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
But it's only when we allow ourselves to get lost that we can have the opportunity to find and be found.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
…those who are the most confident are often those who don't have any fun.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
If they're not willing to explore beyond the realm of their safety, certainty, and comfort, they will never know if their fantasies are true.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
What if one's tendency to go wandering off is truly a gift? What if the driving force beneath the curiosity that leads a person to wander off the beaten path is not immaturity, but the wild, untamable Spirit of God, drawing them into the foliage to be refined, to discover fresh insights, and pioneer a new way forward for a new group of people?
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
…for exploring beyond the boundaries that I had been taught to stay within.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
I have come to see that exploration is not a practice of the unfaithful, but rather is exactly what being a follower of Christ is actually all about.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
…because he was far more interested in allowing his disciples to cultivate a relationship and trust with and in him than leading them to a place of "arrival".
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
We no longer find our identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
The children of Spirit are laughing, cursing, chatting, walking and running. They ooze holiness in all that they are and do.
— Ronald Chapman, Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days
If the true nature of everything isn't extraordinary, then God would be ordinary.
— Craig Smedley, Quantum Orchestra: distorting the notes of reality
Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to well-worn path.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
Traveling light gives me a way to set down what would otherwise be the baggage of someone else' decision to cling to a well-worn path.
— Brandan Robertson, Nomad: Not-So-Religious Thoughts on Faith, Doubt, and the Journey In Between
Artists are the shamans of our time.
— Will Bason
The lesser you are, the more you become...
— G.W Lwin
The infinite bears no definition
— G.W. Lwin
The universe is a deep, still body of water in which we all swim. Every move that we make creates a ripple that echoes across reality – and the deeper that we swim, the more force those waves carry and the farther they may span.
— Cristen Rodgers
The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.
— Bashar
It is one thing to speak kindly to an irritating stranger on Monday. It is quite another thing to go on speaking kindly to the same irritating relative, or irritating employee, or irritating child day after day, week after week, year after year and come to see in that what God is asking of me, what God is teaching me about myself in this weary, weary moment.
— Joan D. Chittister, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
Silence is a frightening thing. Silences leaves us at the mercy of the noise within us. We hear the fears that need to be faced. We hear, then, the angers that need to be cooled. We hear the emptiness that needs to be filled. We hear the cries for humility and reconciliation and centeredness. We hear ambition and arrogance and attitudes of uncaring awash in the shallows of the soul. Silence demands answers. Silence invites us to depth. Silence heals what hoarding and running will not touch.
— Joan D. Chittister, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
Don’t get stressed over the little things and make sure you live life to the fullest.
— Jack Barakat
Connected sex is a spiritual experience….It is spiritual because it’s a release from ego, a merging with the other, a discorporation into the atoms vibrating around us, a connection to the universal energy that moves through all things without judgment or prejudice. 	Thus, orgasm is the one spiritual practice that unites nearly everyone on the planet, and perhaps that is why there’s so much fear and baggage around it. Because…it is sacred.	And every orgasm. Is in itself an act of faith. An attempt to reach out. And just for a moment. Relieve our separateness. Escape from time. And touch eternity.
— Neil Strauss, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
So Rise now to the Occasion that is Life
— Septem Nuntius, 777: Messages from the Elder Gods
Your big heart will make you care and care a lot - About nature, a friend, a moment, even an enemy. Sometimes you will feel no one else does. Take a breath and trust it will be momentarily. Keep looking for those who care and keep them close to you.
— Septem Nuntius, 777: Messages from the Elder Gods
Humble people walk comfortably in every group. No one is either too beneath them or too above them for their own sense of well-being. They are who they are, people with as much to give as to get, and they know it. And because they're at ease with themselves, they can afford to be open with others... Having discovered who we are and having opened ourselves to life and having learned to be comfortable with it, we know that God is working in us. We know, most of all, that whatever happens we have nothing to fear... we are free of the false hopes and false faces and false needs that once held us down. We can fly now. Let all the others scratch and grapple for the plastic copy of life. We have found the real thing.
— Joan D. Chittister
War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sad joy of maintaining our one-dimensional worlds.
— Joan D. Chittister, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
Who have not led the holy lifenor riches won while young,they linger on as aged cranesaround a fished-out pond.
— Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
Remove whatever you no longer need in your life, to make room for what you do need in your life.
— Avis J. Williams
I had a dream, someone came to me and told me "Jesus Christ is coming in a couple days, time is near, only a couple days left for Christ to come" then I saw rocks coming from the air that caused disasters on earth. The end is near, don't ignore this very important message, it's your responsibility to save your soul from hell. The choice is yours, make sure you know your destination.
— Werley Nortreus
Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.
— Joan D. Chittister
It will all be over in 2 weeks
— Ken Novak, The Wasted Years: I Don't Have to Live That Way Anymore
When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.
— Vadim Zeland, Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life.
— Rian Dawson
Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to serve. But without stability, friendship - real soul-searing friendship, the kind that makes us choose between domination and infatuation and possessiveness and dependence for growth and freedom and depth and responsibility and self-knowledge - is impossible.Stability is what enables us, in other words, to live totally in God and totally for others.
— Joan D. Chittister, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
Why in the world a book on Christ for Unitarian Universalists (UUs)? Less than 20 percent of us identify as Christians.1 But more than 70 percent of Americans identify as Christian, and we UUs are only 0.3 percent of America at best.2 So, primarily, this is a book to help us talk intelligently about Christ with our Christian friends. We Unitarian Universalists actually have had a lot to say about Christ over the years as well (that is, centuries, and perhaps even millennia), and we have generally done that in dialogue with mainstream Christians. But not much anymore. This book is meant to encourage us to do so again, not just by referencing our history, but also by speaking freshly as Unitarian Universalists in the twenty-first century.Why in the world a book on Christ for Unitarian Universalists, when we virtually never use that title for the historical figureof Jesus of Nazareth? Again, primarily because that’s how the rest of the world speaks. They refer to themselves and others who stand in the tradition of Jesus as Christ-ians, not Jesus-ians. Why? Because they tend to be less interested in the Jesus of history than in the Christ of their present faith. Jesus lives with them in their daily lives now as the Christ. Christ is an honorific title that technically means “the anointed one” of God. For most Christians, Jesus is the post-Easter Christ, the resurrected Christ, who is actually with them now in real time—who companions them and comforts them and challenges them in their daily lives—not just a prophet and teacher of first-century Israel.
— Scotty McLennan, Christ for Unitarian Universalists: A New Dialogue with Traditional Christianity
Her beauty is untouchable.
— Erin Fall Haskell
To pray in the midst of the mundane is simply and strongly to assert that this dull and tiring day is holy and its simple labors are the stuff of God's saving presence for me now. To pray simply because it is prayer time is no small act of immersion in the God who is willing to wait for us to be conscious, to be ready, to be willing to become new in life. Prayer, Benedictine spirituality demonstrates, is not a matter of mood. To pray only when we feel like it is more to seek consolation than to risk conversion. To pray only when it suits us is to want God on our terms. To pray only when it is convenient is to make the God-life a very low priority in a list of better opportunities. To pray only when it feels good is to court total emptiness when we most need to be filled. The hard fact is that nobody finds time for prayer. The time must be taken. There will always be something more pressing to do, something more important to be about than the apparently fruitless, empty act of prayer. But when that attitude takes over, we have begun the last trip down a very short road because, without prayer, the energy for the rest of life runs down. The fuel runs out. We become our own worst enemies: we call ourselves too tired and too busy to pray when, in reality, we are too tired and too busy not to pray. Eventually, the burdens of the day wear us down and we no longer remember why we decided to do what we're doing: work for this project, marry this woman, have these children, minister in this place. And if I cannot remember why I decided to do this, I cannot figure out how I can go on with it. I am tired and the vision just gets dimmer and dimmer.
— Joan D. Chittister
Love awakens the soul.
— A.D. Posey
Religion is doing, spirituality is being.
— R.A.Delmonico
Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who came to give abundance of life is commonly thought of as a cosmic stuffed shirt, whose excessive "spirituality" probably did not allow him normal bodily functions and certainly would not permit him to throw a frisbee or tackle someone in a football game.
— Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines : Understanding How God Changes Lives
We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy.
— Daniel Henderson, Old Paths, New Power: Awakening Your Church Through Prayer and the Ministry of the Word
There is no failure here sweetheart, just when you quit.
— U2, Miracle Drug
One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best.
— Joan D. Chittister
Twenty percent of Americans describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious.” Although the claim seems to annoy believers and atheists equally, separating spirituality from religion is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. It is to assert two important truths simultaneously: Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit. One purpose of this book is to give both these convictions intellectual and empirical support.Before going any further, I should address the animosity that many readers feel toward the term spiritual. Whenever I use the word, as in referring to meditation as a “spiritual practice,” I hear from fellow skeptics and atheists who think that I have committed a grievous error.The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which is a translation of the Greek pneuma, meaning “breath.” Around the thirteenth century, the term became entangled with beliefs about immaterial souls, supernatural beings, ghosts, and so forth. It acquired other meanings as well: We speak of the spirit of a thing as its most essential principle or of certain volatile substances and liquors as spirits. Nevertheless, many nonbelievers now consider all things “spiritual” to be contaminated by medieval superstition.I do not share their semantic concerns.[1] Yes, to walk the aisles of any “spiritual” bookstore is to confront the yearning and credulity of our species by the yard, but there is no other term—apart from the even more problematic mystical or the more restrictive contemplative—with which to discuss the efforts people make, through meditation, psychedelics, or other means, to fully bring their minds into the present or to induce nonordinary states of consciousness. And no other word links this spectrum of experience to our ethical lives.
— Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.
— Joan D. Chittister
Perfection Doesn’t Need Adornments or Accessories to Be Called ‘Perfect’. It’s more like 'living in the moment' which can’t be described even by The Wisest Ascetic on this earth.
— Taranpreet Singh
There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.
— Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
God is within you, open your heart and uncover that godliness.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Taoism is simply the complete acceptance of yourself as you are right in this moment. It's about rolling with the changes, whether they are perceived as good or bad. Tao reminds us to live life through good actions (important for past karma and karma you are presently creating); through practicing things that engage our mind, body, and spirit.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
You have the power to change the happiness level in someone’s life and in the process you change your mind-set and the level of your own happiness. Practicing kindness and compassion will change your life, your environment, your outlook on your future, and how you view what has happened in your past.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
It’s about letting yourself feel, but not wallow; it’s about leaning into love, not fear, as the preferred force in your life.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
Let's nurture our spirits until they shine and then let's strip down to our naked souls and dance through life until we drop little bits of light behind us that glow like fireflies in the night. 
— Cristen Rodgers
When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, you change the way you deal with everything in life.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
Consciousness is in this present moment, the awareness with every cell in your body the direct and experience of love.
— Matthew Donnelly
The Christian God seemed the most offensive to people precisely because he was the most godlike. He was too perfect even to be coaxed by human efforts, and therefore sent his son to do the job.
— Criss Jami
Sometimes you’re going to shine like the sun; sometimes you’re going to crumble to pieces. Either way, it’s okay.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
Religion is that which congregate all the resources for spirituality (to attain the Self).
— Dada Bhagwan
Divinity is born from neural processes, not some Supreme Entity.
— Abhijit Naskar, Autobiography of God: Biopsy of A Cognitive Reality
Faith is Feeling Alive In The Heart.
— Martina E. Faulkner
You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
Before you ever clasped your hands to pray God was already within your heart to stay.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
In spite of all - Be Happy.
— Oluwatosin Ayo-Ajayi, Sunshine in the Midst of the Storm: 7 Keys to Being Happy when Times are Tough
Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems.
— Charles Edward Stoll
Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.
— Cristen Rodgers
How simple our Lord's word is, Love thy neighbor. Just think how that word has been twisted around, just because it's hard to love thy neighbor.
— Edgar Maass
Humans are wired to want to share love, the essence of our being, with others. The more we close this area off by holding onto anger, frustrations, resentments and disappointments, the less we are able to love ourselves and others.
— Antonia Hall, The Ultimate Guide to a Multi-Orgasmic Life
Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consciousness.
— Tyler Hebert
For the soul, understand, is itself the whole world.
— Edgar Maass, Don Pedro and the Devil
Science will provide the material basis for a spiritually mature technologically advanced civilisation, it will achieve its higher spiritual purpose of evolving all of humanity. No other spiritual, mystical or religious institution has ever been able to do this and never will.
— Jonathan R. Banks, A New World: The Science of Higher Dimensional Computation and Metaphysics
...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.
— Tony Parsons
There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.
— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Bless the world. Let it be a wonderful world with love, peace, joy and happiness.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.
— Sheila Burke
There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance.
— Ian-Anthony Finnimore, The book of Lenity
In many ways a child has actually re-educated the parents upon arrival into their lives - when else do adults take the time to appreciate acorns or clouds?
— Ian-Anthony Finnimore, The book of Lenity
When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love.
— Sheila Burke
Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace. 
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?
— Martha N. Beck, Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
Have you ever felt your destiny unfolding, beloved? Have you experienced the intensity of the hunt, the fixation of attention that only fate can explain? Have you ever told yourself your feelings wereexcessive, but known that something huge and pivotally important was carrying you along like a riptide? You can fight that current all you want; you know it will still have its way with you. Or you cantry swimming along with it, and grow amazed by your own power—until you pause and realize that you aren’t moving but being moved. You’re not in control, not at all, and that’s what makes the feeling soexquisitely exciting.
— Martha N. Beck, Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
Diana frowns. “You’re taking me home, right? You just said you would.” “Hoink hoink! Of course, piglet. But I meant your real home.” “Which, last I checked,” says Diana acidly, “is in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, solar system, planet Earth.” “Hmm,” says the boar, hiccupping dreamily. “That’s what you think, darling. Tell me, can you say you’ve felt really at home at that address? Haven’t you been homesick your whole life?
— Martha N. Beck, Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
If one looks at it with his bare eyes then one can only see a stream of running water coming down the mountain. But, if one can verily perceive it through the eyes of wisdom then this tiny stream of water has the might of taking on any obstacles; big boulders, trees, anything that comes within its course. And why does it have the might? Because it adjusts its course when faced with any obstacles. Water just flows, naturally. It doesn’t see a challenge in the obstacles. It doesn’t say to the obstacle “You are in my way. Please move aside so that I can proceed further.” No! When faced with an obstacle, it changes its course slightly, but, never stops flowing. Its primary aim is to flow to its destination and not to get embroiled with obstacles. And all this is possible because it has been endowed with this wonderful ability to change course.
— Rashmi Rathi, Karma isn't such a bitch!
Love is the divine light that melts away all blockages. Love heals our beings
— Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru
When I think of Tao, I think of the artist Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. I can hear him say, “It’s your tree, you can make it look any way you want to.
— Sheila Burke
Since God lives in the heart, I was not to seek some Being way up in the sky . . . my journey to God was not outward, but inward! The only way to get closer to God was to become ordered enough inside to enable me to experience him within. When our emotions are running loose, and our minds are confused . . . and our imagination is working overtime, there's so much internal noise that we can't hear the still voice of God.So many times over my years as a mother I had felt tired, overwhelmed, and worn out So often I felt I couldn't get any personal space to think, what with the continual onslaught of "Mummy! Mummy!" coming from the children, or the work that I hadn't finished staring me in the face. I needed quiet time alone.
— Holly Pierlot
Life is an all-encompassing art gallery. From the seasons ushering in change to the way a body moves during dance from the way one smile paints another to the waddle of a street rat – every facet of life is art in motion. Every time a bird takes flight from a branch the scene changes each time the winds shift brings new perspective. 
— Sheila Burke
Spirituality gives sacredness of strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They'd put the anesthesia mask on him, and the next instant he was in the recovery room. It was a blackout so complete, it made him doubt the immortality of the soul.
— Andrew Klavan, Werewolf Cop
Materialists deny God because they can't smell a rose with a telescope.
— Adriano Bulla
Just like any civilized person, you’ve spent practically your whole life torturing an innocent wild creature. Starved it, then force-fed it, cut it, cursed it, driven it to exhaustion. Imprisoned it with other creatures who tormented it.”“What?” Diana shakes her head in miserable confusion. “I don’teven kill spiders! I never wanted to hurt anything.”“The innocent wild creature to which I refer, my darling, is you.
— Martha N. Beck, Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
The mirror image of suffering is the truth. Try it. Change the story. Change the course of your entire history. Right now.” “You want me to lie about my past?” Diana wipes tears from her face with the back of her hand. “No, to tell the story a truer way,” says Herself. “Any story can be told infinite ways, dear, but listen to me. Listen well. If a story liberates your soul, believe it. But if a story imprisons you, believe its mirror image.
— Martha N. Beck, Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
Materialist deny God because they can't smell a rose with a powerful telescope.
— Adriano Bulla
All for all, always.
— Martha N. Beck, Diana, Herself: An Allegory of Awakening
Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.
— Stefan Emunds
However, one day, this shallow living will not be enough for you. You are gifted with a questioning mind that will marvel at the deepest parts of the world around you. It will crave divine understanding because you are part of the divine whole, and it is the nature of the soul to seek to return to its spiritual state.
— Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
As much as the destination ends the journey, so it is of the dream coming true.
— Stephen Richards
Making time for what you really want to do can be a full-time job, but only if you allow it to be.
— Stephen Richards
The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you—whether you know it consciously or not.
— Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
We all have a voice of sorts and when put with others we make a good sound.
— Stephen Richards
To secure victory, first you have to dare to do so.
— Stephen Richards
Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness.
— Stephen Richards
You have the power to adjust your life experience simply by being grateful.
— Chiara Gizzi
You have the power to adjust you life experience simply be being grateful.
— Chiara Gizzi
It is a beautiful gift to be a creator.
— Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us.
— Stephen Richards
The prize is as big as the fight in you to get it.
— Stephen Richards
There is nothing in the world that I cannot achieve when I have the courage to believe.
— Chiara Gizzi
Without doing anything physical you can use the hands of your mind to change the world.
— Stephen Richards
A man can be knocked down a thousand times and can still get back up, but when he puts himself down he has defeated himself more than a million others could have done.
— Stephen Richards
Talent does not automatically generate success. You can be talentless, but so long as you have fortitude then you will have success.
— Stephen Richards
If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?
— Matthew Donnelly
Unless someone has lived your life, no one can live your dream!
— Stephen Richards
When you only focus on your goals you never see any obstacles.
— Stephen Richards
When you face fear head on, it is no more!
— Stephen Richards
We can all be giants in moments of peace and harmony, but to stay a giant in adversity is the true test of one’s mettle.
— Stephen Richards
It is pointless waiting for the moment because you are already in the moment so just get started!
— Stephen Richards
If someone wants to be in your world then they will be anything you want them to in it.
— Stephen Richards
Flexibility is just as essential for divinity as is discipline. Your job, then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help you move ever closer to divinity.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
To consciously meditate is to lose influence over the outer world.
— Stephen Richards
I am the master of my own destiny, so I choose greatness and nothing less.
— Chiara Gizzi
Thought is the only concept that creates the unknown. You have everything you need to know in this moment.
— Matthew Donnelly
That which stirs within, slows or quickens, goes deep or dies out. When I speak of spirit, I am not speaking of something related to or given by a force outside ourselves. I am speaking of the force that is ourselves. The experience of living in this world, bound by a body, space, and time, woven into the fabric of human history, human connection and human life. This is the force that feels, and thinks and gives us consciousness at all. It is the deepest, most elemental, most integral part of who we are; it is who we are.
— Marya Hornbacher, Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power
joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms,
— Mark Matousek, When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living
If all your focused thoughts followed your inner feelings, your life would be abundant and joyful beyond all imagining.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves," said a Tibetan sage six hundred years ago, and the book where I found this edict followed it with an explanation of the word "track" in Tibetan: shul, "a mark that remains after that which made it has passed by - a footprint for example. In other contexts, shul is used to describe the scarred hollow in the ground where a house once stood, the channel worn through rock where a river runs in flood, the indentation in the grass where an animal slept last night.
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
By nature you are a manifesting machine!
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
So I was communicating directly with God? Absolutely. Expressed that way, it sounds grandiose. But when it was happening, it didn't feel that way. Instead, I felt like I was doing what every soul is able to do when they leave their bodies, and what we can all do right now through various methods of prayer or deep meditation. Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal--and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.
— Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Parenting requires a delicate balance of letting your child be your spiritual teacher while you maintain the clarity and boundaries to be her Earthly teacher.
— Jennifer Griffin
Feelings are the directional impulses of your soul. Your soul always wants you to go into the direction of greater joy.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Focus on lack and you will always struggle to create enough money.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
When you allow your mind to ONLY have positive thoughts towards your desired outcome you are saying to the Universe that you are devoted to manifesting your dream.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
First, be better than yourself, then strive to better than your competitors.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Feeling undeserving is never compatible with the ability to attract or create wealth.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Forgiveness is remembering the truth of who you are.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
One of the aims of forgiveness is to turn the frozen, pent-up energy in stored-up emotions into free energy that people can express themselves with in the present.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Each manifestation is an ascension opportunity. All manifestations teach something about oneself and mirror one’s own unconscious state of being.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
For aspirants upon the spiritual path, each manifestation provides clues as to what needs to be released or cleared in order to continue to ascend.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
The Universe supports doers.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Love is not jealous, angry or afraid.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
In mystical terms, the law of attraction specifies that you will attract to yourself those experiences that match your beliefs.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
By thinking of the good things you want to happen as part of a regular routine, you are creating a positive energy.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Remember, nothing is ever created or destroyed. Therefore, unresolved emotional pain from childhood does not dissolve by itself. It sits waiting to be declared, and a child is the ultimate vehicle of expression. In order to transform the energy into something positive, the pain must be brought to the surface, examined and embraced as an experience from which to learn and blossom.
— Jennifer   Griffin
Your thoughts and feelings together create an ‘energetic blueprint’ that is constantly being emitted out into the world.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Spirituality [Nischay] means complete truth and worldly interactions means truth to a certain extent.
— Dada Bhagwan
Hearing my story seemed to give him a license he had been longing for someone to give him: the license to believe what he had seen with his own eyes--to KNOW that deep and comforting truth: that 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
The truth is, the source of existence is infinite and to discover the essence of it is an unfolding that lasts for eternity.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
If you do not have the time to become healthy then so it is the same of becoming wealthy.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
By simply and profoundly giving love to yourself everyday in every way you are saying to the Universe you are worthy of attaining any dream, vision or goal. Feel worthy of it.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
— John Milton
We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this—the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one’s own spiritual bearings—is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. It is changing us, collectively. It is even renewing religion, and our cultural encounter with religion, in counterintuitive ways. I meet scientists who speak of a religiosity without spirituality—a reverence for the place of ritual in human life, and the value of human community, without a need for something supernaturally transcendent. There is something called the New Humanism, which is in dialogue about moral imagination and ethical passions across boundaries of belief and nonbelief. But I apprehend— with a knowledge that is as much visceral as cognitive— that God is love. That somehow the possibility of care that can transform us— love muscular and resilient— is an echo of a reality behind reality, embedded in the creative force that gives us life.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process that removes the clouds of negativity and brings the colors of peace, compassion and kindness.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
Big or small, be ready to do your part when you dare to dream and you will be rewarded with success from the Universe.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
If you were brought up on a poor man’s brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
I know a lot of wealthy people, and yet not many of them drive a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari! However, I also know some of poor people on the verge of bankruptcy driving Bentleys!
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
However, what I have come to understand from my life’s journey is that I am always in the right place at the right time. In fact, there is no other place I could possibly be.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Dare to believe that there is something better for you and that you can change your future and make it better.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
With a clear idea of what you want in life, you need to actively pursue your dream. Half-hearted attempts will not work.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Dreams give purpose to one’s life. If you do not wish anything better for yourself or for your loved ones, then life loses meaning.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
There are many fun things to do in life, but few that are more rewarding than committing to living the life of your dreams.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Often the unfavorable events of our lives are a catalyst for long needed change, so what seemed like a poor decision in the beginning can result in much better quality of life in the long term.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Do not look back at the decision, look for the solution.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
When it comes to creating million dollar inventive ideas, most people stop short of reaching the mother stratum while mining their own seam of gold! Genius takes effort and passion.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
There is doggedness to genius. It is the ability to dig deep and hold on to the dream.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
It is easy to be average. It takes no endeavor at all to be like everybody else.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Be who you are longing to be, practice thinking of yourself as the person of your dreams.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Only when you verbalize your interests will the Universe be able to come to your aid.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Your dreams may have been buried inside of you for a long time because you were busy with things that needed to get done, but it is never too late to dare to dream.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Self-expression is an important requirement if you desire to make giant leaps in your career.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Working on your dream whenever it is convenient for you will not work. When you dare to dream, you should also dare to do.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.
— Helen Greaves, Testimony of Light
Everybody has dreams and goals. All you have to do is dig them up.
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Looking flash without the cash is worthless!
— Stephen Richards, Ask and the Universe Will Provide: A Straightforward Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams
Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.
— A.D. Posey