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This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!
— Kamand Kojouri
You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.
— Kamand Kojouri
Of course, I am religious.I worship love.
— Kamand Kojouri
There’s a huge difference between reading about out-of-body experiences or watching videos about them and lifting out of your body and traveling through space in a different dimension. Why not experience a greater multidimensional reality rather than just reading about it? Discover what science doesn’t know and cannot ever know – it’s your life and you have a choice to break free of the known and live in a different way.
— Belsebuub
The people who encouraged you to change will oftentimes, after you change, accuse you of having changed.
— Weam Namou, Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World: My Life-Changing Journey Through a Shamanic School: Book 1
Chopra concludes his work with, "Your goal and mine isn't to imitate Jesus. It is to become part of him----or, as he said, to abide in him.
— Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
Being grounded is not a punishment. Stay rooted.
— Dawn Culp
An idea of awakening is not awakening. It’s simply an idea. It’s not the real thing. The real thing happens in our lives.
— Belsebuub
True spirituality is "the place where desperation meets Jesus.
— Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
Spirituality is a magnet, and the magnet affects iron, not wood or stone. Similarly, faith and devotion are iron, who has that, spirituality touches the believer, not an unbeliever.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Spirituality is a magnet, and the magnet affects iron, not the wood or stone. Similarly, faith and devotion are iron, who has that, spirituality touches the believer, not an unbeliever.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Spirituality is not an achievement it is a relationship.
— R. A. Delmonico
Let the mind help us to get there, after we have decided with our heart. Let the mind follow us, rather than lead us.
— Jamie Cedar Rogers, Solstice to Solstice: ReBirthing of Divine Inner Light
As Christians, we are all engaged in the business of discerning and obeying God’s call, and this usually means that soon enough we find ourselves out beyond our own competence, frightened at what God demands and feeling cosmically abandoned, left in the lurch with a job for which our own resources are completely inadequate…Sooner or later, the panic touches each one of us who accepts God’s call and heads, eyes wide open, straight into some difficult and mysterious work—like pastoring a church, teaching a class, going back to school, learning a language, creating a work of art. The panic descends on everyone who accepts God’s call to do something that engages our heart and wracks our soul—like making a marriage proper through better and worse, raising a child and letting her go into adulthood, enduring a terrible illness, growing up, growing old. In fact, being called out far beyond our own competence is part of our regular experience with God.
— Ellen F. Davis, Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old Testament
In the silence of children, God exists, directing their thoughts and sending us subtle reminders as not forgetting gratitude even in the littlest of things.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
It is better to seek spirituality than materialism.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My soul is satisfied with spirituality.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Rekindle spirit revives the soul
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Secret to FlightDon't flap your wings so hard. It only exhausts you. Close your eyes. Lean into the currents, say yes. Let the wind raise you higher and higher. So easy. That's what Eagles do. Oh, this is the secret to life as well.
— Kamal Ravikant, Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness, and Following Your Heart
You’re probably wondering what the heck I mean by “The Pillars of Your Life”, right? Well this is simple. It’s the things that make your life what it is. The things or people that make you, you. There’s work, family, your hobby, your art, and your traditions. Except, some of us have wonky pillars. Some of us give one pillar too much to hold, and the others not enough. One’s too tall, whilst the others are too small. Therefore we become unstable, and sometimes, everything comes crashing down.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you don’t travel, you’ll regret it. Your soul will forever be empty.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
Totalitarian systems are notably devoid of humor at every level. Laughter, which brings acceptance and freedom, is a threat to their rule through force and intimidation. It is hard to oppress people who have a good sense of humor. Beware the humorless, whether in a person, institution, or belief system; it is always accompanied by an impulse to control and dominate, even if its proclaimed objective is to create prosperity or peace.
— David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force
Why is true success so relatively effortless? It might be likened to the magnetic field created by an electric current running through a wire. The higher the power of the current, the greater the magnetic field that it generates. And the magnetic field itself then influences everything in its presence. There are very few at the top. The world of the mediocre, however, is one of intense competition, and the bottom of the pyramid is crowded. Charismatic winners are sought out; losers have to strive to be accepted. People who are loving, kind, and thoughtful of others have more friends than they can count; success in every area of life is a reflex to those who are aligned with successful patterns. And the capacity to be able to discern the difference between the strong patterns of success and the weak patterns leading to failure is now available to each of us.
— David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force
I see them and they see me but the lovers — we recognise one another: there is light in our eyes.
— Kamand Kojouri
There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.
— Julie Reisler, Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery
My first-year mentor Leslie taught me that the hurrieder we go, the behinder we get.
— Weam Namou, Healing Wisdom for a Wounded World: My Life-Changing Journey Through a Shamanic School: Book 1
Breath with awareness is prana. Breath without awareness is just air.
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, First Breath, Last Breath
There is no prayer greater than service.
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, First Breath, Last Breath
The more you listen to your breath, the more you can hear the voice of your soul.
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, First Breath, Last Breath
God operates in levels. First He changes your life to help you see opportunities, and you can't appreciate it. Then He sends you people that can help you, and you refuse to trust them. Then, He boosts your vitality, so that you might still be able to do something for yourself, but you conform to your lifestyle and habits. Then, He ignores you, until you realize, through your own suffering, that you've offended Him in all these ways.
— Robin Sacredfire
This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth.Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust.O the joy of beingin life with all these people!I speak of differencesbecause they are there.Like the different organsthat make up our bodies.Earth, itself, is one large body.Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery.When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in itschest. When one orgasms, the Earth craves a cigarette.Look carefully,these animals are beauty spots that make the Earth’s face lovelier and more loveable.These oceans are the Earth’s limpid eyes. These trees, its hair.This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.I will no longer speak of differences, for the similaritiesare larger. Look even closer. There may bedistances between our limbs butthere are no spaces betweenour hearts. We long to be one.We long to be in nature andto run wild with its wildlife.Let us celebrate life and living, for it is sacrilegious to be ungrateful.Let us play and be playful, for it is sacrilegiousto be serious.Let us celebrate imperfectionsand make existenceproud of us, for tomorrow isdeath, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world.
— Kamand Kojouri
Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!
— Kamand Kojouri
Reincarnation isn't something in which I choose to believe but rather a truth I accept. Most people will never know the meaning of their friendships, passions, choices and even challenges. I embrace them, knowing that there’s always a perfect correlation between everything, including between us and the ones that love us and betray us at the end. That’s how I know I’m almost never traveling somewhere but returning, or not meeting someone but fixing the past, or facing a challenge but ending a karmic cycle. If I was a Buddhist Monk, a Scottish Doctor, a French Monarch, or a Spanish Templar, none of that really matters, not as much as what I experienced and believed during that time, not as much as what I did ten years ago or what I believed during my childhood, not as much as who I am now and what I can do with my life at present time.
— Robin Sacredfire
His eyes were deep as ocean, and I found myself drowning in his lies.
— Enna Margo
I want a God that makes me twirl.' I jumped off the couch. I untucked and unbuttoned my shirt so it would flow like a robe. 'Like this. I can do this for God.' I held my hands out. I twirled and twirled and twirled. 'Look,' I said. 'Look.
— Rabih Alameddine, The Hakawati
I long for the day when I hear the musicwithout any song.
— Kamand Kojouri
Life is indeed perfect in itself. You see, the best religions in the world have members so afraid to lose them, that they themselves will fear any change and, in doing so, stop such religion from progressing and, in such attitude, lead it to an inevitable destruction. The art of detachment can be ignored for as long as one can attach, but the level at which one attaches to things will bring forth an equally leveled suffering, and so, the higher the emotional attachment, the higher the amount of pain one feels at the end. The atheists, on the other hand, are ironically the most commonly individuals possessed by spirits, and often, due to their lower vibrations, demons. Their lack of spirituality is both a disease and a justification for such mental disease. Whatever they say serves them well, but makes them suffer at the same time. And evil, evil can only be ignored insofar as people have options that allow ignoring it. As soon as those options vanish or are all under the control of evil, revolutions become inevitable. And so, one can say that truth doesn’t need faith to exist but is surely more easily recognized under the right beliefs, and as much as spirituality doesn’t need religion, but is more easily found inside one.
— Robin Sacredfire
The presence or calling of God can be no reasons but the guidance of God because of His glorification.
— indonesia123
If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.
— June Matthews
Humans recognize the duality, autonomy, and latitude range of the mind and the body, and all humans comprehend their impending mortality. Unlike other animals, humankind knows despair brought about by understanding the inevitability of death of all living creatures. The radius of human thought touching upon the longitude of our transient existence causes infinite pain. Seeking to ameliorate existential anguish incites us to ponder spiritual matters, and this sphere of mental activity spurs us to contemplate the perimeter of unknown frontiers. Our ability to understand the compass of life and death allows us to view the circumference of the world as consisting of a past, a present, and a future in relation to our own lives. How a person views the range of their earthly life and how a person rationalizes their march towards a deathly outback creates a system of beliefs that separate people into classes, and the variations amongst class members’ belief systems supplements who we think we are.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts, but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life.
— Sam Harris
...suffering is not a problem that can be solved therapeutically; it is not a matter of emotional conflict. Psychologists and psychotherapists deal usefully with human suffering by working on the conflicts of the personality, but from the perspective of spiritual teachings this approach clearly cannot deal with the basic problem, the root of all emotional conflicts.When the Buddha said that life is suffering, he did not mean only neurotic suffering. He was referring to the more fundamental understanding that there is bound to be suffering in the life of the ego, because one is not seeing reality correctly; one is taking oneself to be something that actually does not exist. It is a problem of mistaken identity" - (The Pearl Beyond Price, 28).
— Almaas, A.H.
Bless them: Change me! Will get the author of this saying and get back to you.
— Unknown
...suffering is not a problem that can be solved therapeutically; it is not a matter of emotional conflict. Psychologists and psychotherapists deal usefully with human suffering by working on the conflicts of the personality, but from the perspective of spiritual teachings this approach clearly cannot deal with the basic problem, the root of all emotional conflicts. When the Buddha said that life is suffering, he did not mean only neurotic suffering. He was referring to the more fundamental understanding that there is bound to be suffering in the life of the ego, because one is not seeing reality correctly; one is taking oneself to be something that actually does not exist. It is a problem of mistaken identity" (The Pearl Beyond Price, 28).
— Almaas, A.H.
I am not afraid I was born to do this. 
— Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc
Whats past is proloque, merely a way to a settled soul
— Graham Peterson, A Life of Hope
Grace isn't meant to be fair, grace is meant to be good
— James  Prescott, Mosaic Of Grace: God's Beautiful Reshaping Of Our Broken Lives
May we take responsibility for the truth of our lives and challenge others to do the same.May we learn to love and forgive others, even when we know their messes.against us.May we know the truth of how much we are loved and accepted right here,right now, as we are.
— James  Prescott, Mosaic Of Grace: God's Beautiful Reshaping Of Our Broken Lives
Learning the way of grace is about truth. It’s reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others’ infinite value—despite our depths ofbrokenness.
— James  Prescott, Mosaic Of Grace: God's Beautiful Reshaping Of Our Broken Lives
I don’t give up on people, even when they give up on me.
— Mark Andrew Poe, Ending Easter
I seem to know a lot about myself, but can’t tell who I am.
— Stefan Emunds, The Priest Whisperer
When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world.
— Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: the Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.
— Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality
For spiritual change, we need to see and understand ourselves. What sees is consciousness, it is what perceives, and is essentially what we are. To understand ourselves we need to look within and study how we think and feel, and doing that is called self-observation.
— Belsebuub, The Awakening of Perception: A Collection of Talks and Articles
Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.
— Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality
I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I have to decline being your wife. I love you with all my heart and soul, but my salvation, life, health, and legacy has to come first now.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye.
— Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality
The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it’s true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.
— Stefan Emunds, The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - A Short Story
There’s a way to live like a god.
— Stefan Emunds, The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - A Short Story
Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.
— Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Throughout our history human beings have conducted and practiced all kinds of rituals and activities with the motivation of obtaining peace. We have fought wars in the name of achieving peace because we are under the illusion that peace is something external, something to be obtained.
— Saunsea, Contemplative Essays: Volume 1: Essays to inspire deep reflection about how we view our world.
Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.
— Stefan Emunds, A Modern Crash Course in Spirituality
What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?
— Ashim Shanker
You can find a better you inside of you. Why don’t you search for that?
— Munia Khan
Though there are many barriers to expressing unreserved love, no such impediments to a developing a loving and generous heart deter a spiritual warrior. He who is without love is bereft of richness of life. Compassion, empathy, kindness, tenderness, and patience are essential for love. Anger, frustration, jealously, greed, and hatred are the antonym to love. When we love other people with all our ferocity, we transcend the misuse, waste, pain, tragedy, death, anguish, erotic obsessions, unaccountable confusion, and self-absorbed personal ambitions that, if left unchecked, numb our earthly existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.
— June Matthews, The Reliving: A True Story
The idea that I could work wonders as the Lord flutters through my mind like a glamorous butterfly. I hasten to catch it, but it escapes into the depths of my mind.
— Stefan Emunds, The Priest Whisperer
Living in a spiritual manner, exhibiting a joyous and mindful embrace of the manifold wonders of an earthy existence, enhances life. A person develops spirituality by spending solitary time thinking about the larger issues in life. Scripting a personal philosophy for conducting a person’s life is a spiritual testament. A spiritual person seeks a system of general truths that encoded statement transforms their character.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
As Joab now reflected, however, much time had passed since David lived in that natural God-state and treated his devoted people with that kind of tender loving care. Nowadays, with his ego having taken over his life, David was a different machine. He had become callused, manipulative, and greedy. It was all about money, power, and control. He was now easily threatened, even by what seemed like small insignificant things. Disagreement with him in any form was dangerous. It didn’t take much to set him off, and when it did, anything might happen.
— Marco Raye, The King
What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is passed on by their parents’ egos and other social stimuli. It is born of negativity—of not being good enough thoughts of not having enough, of fear, and worry of failure. Because of its insecure nature, the ego loves to dominate and control others. It’s control or be controlled.
— Marco Raye, The King
He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found his way to a solution of these questions in a conscious manner; now he could only feel. In place of dialectics life had arrived, and in his consciousness something of a wholly different nature must now work towards fruition.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
My love for her was close to piety. You may think it strange that I should use this word, with its religious connotation, to describe my feeling towards a woman. But even now I believe—and I believe it very strongly—that true love is not so far removed from religious faith.
— Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro
As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulation - and if these things are taken away, we fall over. To the extent that we are dependent on these external supports, we grow weaker and more liable to upsets and misfortune.
— Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow
Prayer or worship does not therefore grant a free pass to selfishness ...
— Ian-Anthony Finnimore, The book of Lenity
Vibrate higher daily.
— Lalah Delia
Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was still on my campus in India, I was convinced, like many professors, that if the Lord was to be found anywhere, it was in the lower stacks of the library. But now - just as when I go into a big department store, I can say, "How many things I don't need! How many expensive suits I don't want!" - when I enter a big library I say, "What tomes I don't have to read again! What folios I will never open!" This feeling of freedom will come to all of us when we realise, in the depths of our meditation, that all wisdom lies within.
— Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow
We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us. 
— Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow
…more than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
The human body is sustained by the same prana that nourishes the universe. The body (your equipment) has the ability to control and use this special energy through the use of "pranayama". Don't let true word scare you - it just means to control, channel, and direct the flow of prana through the use of breath.
— John Holland, Psychic Navigator
God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, don’t try to kill your appetite for pleasure. It is impossible. Just direct it to the source of all pleasure. You will be amazed to find that He has perfectly and supernaturally designed you to have all your deepest needs met in Him
— John Crowder, The Ecstasy of Loving God
To struggle to do means to fail to see. Doing spontaneously is directly related to perceiving and realising the integrity of your individual identity and value. Doing follows conclusion. I am, therefore I can!
— François Du Toit, God Believes in You
Don’t hide your hurt, beautiful soul. Grab a hold of it. Run it through the purifying flame of your heart and mold it into something beautiful. Allow the depths of your pain to expand the breadth of your compassion. Gather up your stumbling stones and build a bridge for someone else. Remember what it’s like to be lost in darkness so you can be someone else’s much needed light. Don’t deny your pain or bury it away. Let it rise to the surface. And then transform it into something that makes it worthwhile.
— Cristen Rodgers
Spirituality, sexuality and curiosity are the three pillars of Modern Human Consciousness.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
The spiritual work builds upon awareness, increases consciousness, transforms it, merges it with the divine, and this is how to reach true spirituality in life.
— Belsebuub, Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living
Lasting harmony between the sexes cannot be achieved through social, psychological, or political reform alone...they are not sufficient in themselves because gender reconciliation entails an inherent spiritual dimension. Gender disharmony is vast and pervasive; its symptoms are manifest in myriad ways in virtually every culture across the globe. For authentic gender reconciliation, we aspire to a comprehensive approach that includes but also transcends traditional modes of social change, invoking a larger universal intelligence or grace.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, deepening awareness is itself transformative.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
There are moments in the course of gender healing work when the veils obscuring its deeper mystery are suddenly parted and the underlying omniscient presence of the Beloved, or Spirit, or Love – the force and radiance at the core of the work – is subtly revealed. In such moments there is an inexplicable energetic shift that touches everyone present, and people are moved beyond their usual selfish attachments into a selfless, universal compassion.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
When the energy is directed outside, you create and manifest life outside, and when the same energy is directed inward, you reach to the ultimate truth of life.
— Roshan Sharma
Man’s earliest prereligious fear of the natural forces gradually became religious in nature and got personalized and spiritualized. Eventually he learnt to say 'God works in a mysterious way'.
— Abhijit Naskar, The God Parasite: Revelation of Neuroscience
Almost everything important in life is invisible.
— Nadja Sam
What you choose to do in this life will surely affect you in the next... Just do good, even when it's very hard to do so. It's your life that's on the line.
— R.D. Gennari
There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.
— Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
Spirituality is keeping the spirit up against all odds and obstacles of life.
— Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
You are the sun and the rain, the water and the plants, the birds and the animals. There is no such thing as ‘nature,’ apart from you and me. You are nature, I am nature, just as you are me and I am you.
— John Lundin, Journey to the Heart of the World
Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide
— John Crowder, The Ecstasy of Loving God
…the weapon he used to transform the world was love.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him.
— John Crowder, The Ecstasy of Loving God
How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision.
— John Crowder, The Ecstasy of Loving God
The moment we begin to believe we have got something about God figured out with certainty is the moment we can be sure we are no longer speaking about God.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
When we are able to systematise and theologise God down to a set of absolute theological principles, I believe that we lose something essential. When our faith becomes nothing more than a stagnant creed or unchanging statement of belief, we lose sight of the majesty and glory of God, the mystery and diversity that gives vibrancy to our faith.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
Wonder is the antidote to religion.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.
— Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
But when we are willing to walk in the way of Love, to embody the light of Christ to everyone we encounter, we open ourselves to see and understand the journeys of so many other people…we not only honour the perspective and experience of our brother or sister, but we…learn and have our eyes opened to a new way of being. Because our big, wild and diverse God is at work in millions of systems, philosophies, cultures, religions and people beyond our own.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
But part of loving is sacrificing our ego's need to be right. Part of loving is realising that all of us are on the same journey, seeking the same things, but find ourselves at different places. When we are able to acknowledge and accept this reality; we are freed from the desire to force others into our systems, our beliefs and our points of view.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
No matter how things appear have faith that they are always working out for you. Relax knowing that the universe is taking care of it. Your faith in a solution allows your vibration to rise, allowing your awareness to have access to ideas, help and solutions that reside at that higher frequency. Instagram: #aMessageOfLove
— aMessageOfLove
Dreams are an insight into our psychology: they are what we are, but stripped of the conventions and norms of psychology, and the rules of the physical world…
— Belsebuub, The Astral Codex: Out-of-Body Experiences and Lucid Dreaming for Spiritual Knowledge
Have a specific vision / goal / dream, and power it with general and genuine feelings of love, appreciation, peace, abundance and passion...and always leave room for the universe to bring you even better. If you don't get what you desire it only ever means that you're destined for even greater. ( Instagram: #aMessageOfLove )
— aMessageOfLove
There is no glory in making yourself small, build yourself up. Believe in your abilities and worth, show the world who you are, love yourself fully, take action on your dreams, no more hiding away and being apologetic. What you believe you are you will become. Know you're destined for success. ( Instagram: #aMessageOfLove )
— aMessageOfLove
Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.
— Belsebuub, Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living
Be a survivor of the past, not a reviver of it. Your attention to that painful past either by resisting it or by consistently focusing upon it will continue to persist it. The present will continue to be powered by, and become a product of that painful past, Until you begin to acknowledge, allow and accept the past, it will continue to become your future. ( Instagram: #aMessageOfLove )
— aMessageOfLove
Expect success of yourself, no matter what you desire, intend to do it, to be it. Hoping and wishing for success isn't going to cut it. That energy isn't going to create success. Your FAITH is creative, you've got to know and intend for it to happen. Feeling that at a vibrational level it ALREADY has.( Instagram: #aMessageOfLove )
— aMessageOfLove
All your thoughts, imagination, feelings, emotions and sensation are part of the mechanical process that can be understood, at the state of self-realization.
— Roshan Sharma
No matter what you desire to be or see, contemplate / meditate upon the idea of there being an unlimited abundance of it. Your belief is scarcity and limitation regarding your desire is keeping it from you. How you define something is how it must appear. Faith in abundance draws things to you, your faith in lack / limitation takes away what you already have. ( Instagram: #aMessageOfLove )
— aMessageOfLove
What you have within you in your life is what you are after death. If you have explored it to some extent, you would see how life continues after death, and know that after death the consequences of the way that you have lived follow.
— Belsebuub, Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living
Consciousness cannot be glimpsed as though it were something outside yourself, because it is you.
— Belsebuub, Self-Knowledge for Spiritual Awakening
Oneness is God.
— Abhijit Naskar
Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
If a religion cannot help a human wherever he or she stands, it is not of much use.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
Someone burns your beloved scripture in front of you, yet you are not bothered even the slightest bit. That's when you know, you have achieved divinity.
— Abhijit Naskar
…even if I discover that I don't particularly like or agree with them, I still can see that they are human beings, just like me. They are not an idea. They are not a concept. They are a real, living and breathing human being who is just trying to figure everything out, just like I am.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as if there was never any alternative experience to be reached for? What happens when the conflict ends?
— Adam Oakley
So eventually, our mutual ignorance of each other's faith cancelled each other out and we found ourselves at a stalemate, a common ground beyond our misunderstandings, where we could begin a healthy and open dialogue about the similarities and differences between Christianity and Islam… but our face to face dialogues helped us begin to comprehend with some degree of clarity what the other group actually believed.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
If God exists, he exists for all of us
— Sandesh Hukpachongbang
The most important aspect of life is not the creation, but the creator in you and the process of creation. Once you realize the flow of cosmic energy inside, along with its source, you understand the creator of the universe, and its cosmic order.
— Roshan Sharma
He laughed. I had made a joke, apparently. "What difference makes what you believe? What happens will happen anyway, exactly the same, no matter what you believe. What you do makes the important part. What you do.
— Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
How easy it is for us to demonise from a distance. But when we stand face to face with our supposed enemy, it is hard to hate.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
…Jesus spent more time eating, drinking and lounging with 'tax collectors and sinners' than explaining the Roman Roadmap to Heaven or undermining their belief system.
— Brandan Roberston, Nomad: A spirituality for travelling light
Religion is to be realized, not read or taught.
— Abhijit Naskar
If I release my bird from its cage, I think I have given it freedom as I watch it fly away. But, what good to the bird is its freedom if its mind is still in the cage?
— Princess Mazzaloulou, The Beautiful Dance of Life
Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind, and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.
— Belsebuub
If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of malice. To do so would give it more substance. We remove the personal sense of ourself and the other person.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.
— Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
Everything happens at the open window, the portal into another world. Our experience of life depends upon whether we stay the safe side of the window or have the courage to go through." The Beautiful Dance of Life.
— Princess Mazzaloulou, The Beautiful Dance of Life
One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole tree swaying beneath them making their dance, their every jiggle, a huge and communal and mysterious necessity dance, and so just floating up there in the void dancing the meaning of the tree.
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it.
— Donna Goddard, Love's Longing
It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.
— Donna Goddard, Love's Longing
Wherever you decide to go, proceed with your mind.
— Amitav Chowdhury
Spiritual preparedness is achieved with evolved consciousness.
— Amitav Chowdhury
Not allowing the mind its freedom to think and find the purpose of life takes away the vision to focus.
— Amitav Chowdhury
We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
A weight lands on me, and a strong doubt that I will not be able to fully commit to the ideas of this strange religion out here in the cold north. I look at the girl’s pale skin flushed slightly across her high cheekbones and wonder if she, perhaps, is Katherine Redford and the article we read was wrong. Maybe her ruse is an old woman but she is, in fact, a young girl. There is something more comforting in that idea, to be healed by a child uninterested in fame or money. A girl as young as her would not seek to inveigle or exploit hopeless people such as us, but an adult might.
— Annie Fisher, The Greater Picture
Religion doesn’t mean obeying some textual rules from books that were written hundreds or thousands of years ago. Religion means realization of the self.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to the Kingdom of Conscience
A person’s affinity towards his or her own religious beliefs, has the same neurological qualities as of his or her emotional affinity towards the romantic partner. In fact the symptoms that follow the early euphoric phase of romantic love are often seen in religious people when their beloved religious faith is challenged.
— Abhijit Naskar, In Search of Divinity: Journey to the Kingdom of Conscience
Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold.
— Robin Sacredfire
Till the time, you are enjoying the outside process, everything seems alright, but when the query arises, about why life, you search for the deeper meaning with life.
— Roshan Sharma
The bird flying free has no interest in the truth, searching, or looking for a deeper meaning. The bird flying free just "is" and that is why it is free.
— Princess Mazzaloulou, The Beautiful Dance of Life
I Believe in a Life Lived with a Fairy Princess Heart because fairy princesses live dream-filled lives.
— Princess Mazzaloulou, I Believe in a Life Lived with a Fairy Princess Heart...
Ask Your Higher Self
— Pamela Stadnyk
Compassion Is The Key
— Pamela Stadnyk
There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imagination, intelligence, and natural common sense, and which goes on all the time like the heartbeat. There is also the thinking process by which we break into that inner life and capture answers and evidence to support the answers out of it. That process of raid, or persuasion, or ambush, or dogged hunting, or surrender, is the kind of thinking we have to learn and if we do not somehow learn it, then our minds lie in us like the fish in the pond of a man who cannot fish.
— Ted Hughes, Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
It is not possible to be seduced by the lure of ego-gratification or intimidated by the tyranny of imposters when we know that we are as the angels. We are loved beyond comprehension. So, we must claim our rightful inheritance and live with the confidence of protection.
— Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her body serves as a medicine cabinet for her infant. From her milk she can nourish and heal her own child from a variety of ailments. And though women come in a wide assortment as vast as the many different types of flowers and birds, she is to reflect divinity in her essence, care and wisdom. God created a woman's heart to be a river of love, not to become a killing machine.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
In the last 10 years, we have seen a rise in selfishness: selfies, self-absorbed people, superficiality, self-degradation, apathy, and self-destruction. So I challenge all of you to take initiative to change this programming. Instead of celebrating the ego, let's flip the script and celebrate the heart. Let's put the ego and celebrity culture to sleep, and awaken the conscience. This is the battle we must all fight together to win back our humanity. To save our future and our children.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Prayer is like coffee for my soul in the morning
— Munia Khan
I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David's, Solomon's, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.
— Bob Dylan
It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human
— Timothy Roderick, Wicca: A Year and a Day: 366 Days of Spiritual Practice in the Craft of the Wise
1.	We admitted we were powerless over our emotions, that our lives had become unmanageable.2.	Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.3.	Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.4.	Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.5.	Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.6.	Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.7.	Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.8.	Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.9.	Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.10.	Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.11.	Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.12.	Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to emotionally and mentally ill persons and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
— Jerry Hirschfield, The Twelve Steps for Everyone: Who Really Wants Them
My religion starts from where your arguments end.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Love is not an Emotion, It is your very Existence.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
You deserve a better life. You deserve a prosperous life. You deserve a positive life. You deserve to be liberated from all negativity. You deserve the best!
— Karen A. Baquiran
We can allow our ego to react and sabotage or we can let our spirit run free in love. We are always in control of our actions.
— Karen A. Baquiran
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— Petra Hermans
to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red
— Timothy Roderick, Wicca: A Year and a Day: 366 Days of Spiritual Practice in the Craft of the Wise
If you always point others back to biblical truth and scripture, you allow God to become the reflection for others, not you.
— Matt Kellum, A Mirror Image: Looking Deeper Within to Reflect Jesus
We may pick and choose to graft different fruits onto our spiritual tree, but regardless of what we call it, others will see a confusing fruit salad.
— Matt Kellum, A Mirror Image: Looking Deeper Within to Reflect Jesus
So why should we focus mainly on the life and teachings of Jesus? One main simple truth: because He stands in the “center” for us.
— Matt Kellum, A Mirror Image: Looking Deeper Within to Reflect Jesus