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From personal experience, I know for sure that the number one thing that saddens the dead more than our grief — is not being conscious of their existence around us. They do want you to talk to them as if they were still in a physical body. They do want you to play their favorite music, keep their pictures out, and continue living as if they never went away. However, time and "corruption" have blurred the lines between the living and the dead, between man and Nature, and between the physical and the etheric. There was a time when man could communicate with animals, plants, the ether, and the dead. To do so requires one to access higher levels of consciousness, and this knowledge has been hidden from us. Why? Because then the plants would tell us how to cure ourselves. The animals would show us their feelings, and the dead would tell us that good acts do matter. In all, we would come to know that we are all one. And most importantly, we would be alerted of threats and opportunities, good and evil, truth vs. fiction. We would have eyes working for humanity from every angle, and this threatens "the corrupt". Secret societies exist to hide these truths, and to make sure lies are preserved from generation to generation.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Spencer Tracy, when asked for advice on acting, said, “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.” James Cagney said, “Walk in, plant your feet, look the other fellow in the eye and…tell the truth.” With all due respect to both of these giant talents, I would have to say there’s something more. The true creation of a being, a character other than one’s self, for me is comparable to a mystical or spiritual experience. To stand in another person’s shoes. To see as he sees, to hear as he hears. To know what he knows, and to do all this with a sense of control, a mastering of the dramatic moment, there must be more than a “natural talent” at work.
— Leonard Nimoy, I Am Not Spock
Did I Not Say To YouDid I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?” Did I not say to you, “I am the sea and you are a single fish; go not to dry land, for I am your crystal sea?” Did I not say to you, “ Go not like birds to the snare; come, for I am the power of flight and your wings and feet?” Did I not say to you, “ They will waylay you and make you cold, for I am the fire and warmth and heat of your desire?” Did I not say to you, “ They will implant in you ugly qualities so that you will forget that I am the source of purity to you?” Did I not say to you, “Do not say from what direction the ser- vant’s affairs come into order?” I am the Creator without directions. If you are the lamp of the heart, know where the road is to the house; and if you are godlike of attribute, know that I am your Maser.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Some things happen for a reason, Others just come with the season.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual
— Ramana Maharshi
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
— Morihei Ueshiba, The Art of Peace
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH."Only those who obey the word of truth can truly worship God in spirit.
— Mac Canoza
Tempestuous plains tell the tale,Windswept wastes do bewail,Haunting Spirit of the land,Seeks the living, seeks the damned.Horizoned edge sheared with grass,			Dark Storm Rising in the pass,Ageless Spirit seeks the path,To torment souls to the last.Brooding Spirit upon the plain,Thunderhead gathers for the rain.				Light grows dim then bolts with pain,On dry Earth her sin is stained.(Frightened creatures do stampede,Into night, they do recede).Ungodded hand on seasoned blade,Reaps the harvest of the Age.Released from her eternal din,Spirit of the Age rises again.Seeking to plunder and consume,		Those who were proud, those who presumed.Spirits rage while storm draws nigh,Upon burning plain and emblazoned sky.It is said giants grapple in the Earth so deep,To contend for souls that they might keep.		The Storm spirit now searches the high and the low,To seek her manchild victim in the fields below.Leaves bad wasteland to claim but a fallen man,Denying it Heaven, crowning it, ‘Son of the Damned.’Treacherous Spirit of the far lost night,			Tramples souls down denying them light.Storm seethes with furious hiss,Leads men on to bottomless pit.This most ancient of foes has come from her den,To seek the living, to make ready those dead.	A living sacrifice is her soul desire,To snatch the soul for black funeral pyre.A double-damned devil, that is she,This one who lies, who claims to make free.A lying spirit, that is her domain,					A storm-wracked Fury of self-proclaim.Onward she seeks, this bleak Northern wind,Searching for naught but for a soul akin.Amidst the howling and the rage,To murder again, that is her trade.				As this spirit of graves left the plain,She left a wake of dead in shrouded train.			Now down from the plain Storm did come,Unto those cities wherein was no sun.There with whirlwind she did rip and scour,		For those souls of whom she could tear and devour.She comes to seek the living and the dead,Those who were frightened, those with no dread.Thus upon those she did acclaim,“I am the Mistress of the living and the slain.”		O’ haunting Spirit of this land,Taker of life, maker of the damned. --On Villainess Storm, Ch. One Valley of the Damned
— douglas m laurent
Believing is not thinking something is true, Shireen. It is acting for the truth.
— Ian Baucom, Through the Skylight
While I lingered about the old village and the lake, with the water lapping on the shore and the wind whispering in the big pines, I felt for a moment that I was back in time among the Ojibwe families going about their business.
— Barry Babcock, TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
I know this is what God made me … He wanted me to be a gay man so he could have this experience with me. In my spirit, in my soul…this is why he made me…so that he could experience it with me from the clay, to the sparkling dust of spirit that is also me, flowing into heaven.
— Anthony Nicolosi, Archangels
Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.
— Ian Baucom, Through the Skylight
L-EVELSO-FV-ARYINGE-MOTIONSBEING IN LOVE IS ALWAYS A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP!
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
YOU ARE NOT A FINISHED WORK OF ARTYOU ARE A COMMISSIONED WORK IN PROGRESSHANGING IN A GALLERY UNDER CONSTRUCTION!KEEP PUSHING!
— Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One
The gift of life is a great grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
So you want to succeed?!! Then, do what you got to do!!! make an effort!!!, effort is not between you and someone else, effort is between you! and you! so do what you got to do!!! IT'S ALL UP TO YOU!!!
— Lateef Abader
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Eye contact: how souls catch fire.
— Yahia Lababidi
Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.
— Ram Dass, Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
Your heart is the compass, Your soul is the journey...
— Andulairah, Eyes Of The Scarlet Rose
Courage is the most important spiritual quality.
— Paulo Coelho
When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can and will be related back to you as knowledge, yet you have no way of knowing how you assimilated that wisdom.
— Lujan Matus, Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power
The only way to know God, the only way to know the other, is to listen. Listening is reaching out into that unknown other self, surmounting your walls and theirs; listening is the beginning of understanding, the first exercise of
— Tony Hendra, Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
To the extent to which your consciousness is limited or expanded, is the extent to which you experience being divided or divine.
— Erin Fal Haskell
Illusion (maya) makes one take birth, illusion makes one get married and illusion also makes one die. But here the condition is that it is not the reign of illusion. It is your own reign. It cannot happen unless you wish for it. Illusion gives the result (effect) of what you had consented to in your past life.
— Dada Bhagwan
True happiness is devoid of any illusion.
— Dada Bhagwan
For the one who ‘enjoys’ (worldly) happiness, there will come a time for him to endure sorrow.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no entanglement where there is truth, and where there is no truth, there is entanglement of playing with ‘toys’ (interaction with people).
— Dada Bhagwan
The one, whose worldly entanglements have gone, is called the ‘Absolute Person’ (Sampoorna Purush).
— Dada Bhagwan
The world is entrapped through uneasiness, not through diseases (illnesses). Diseases (illnesses) are caused by uneasiness. Do the trees get any diseases (illnesses)? Do the crows become paralyzed or have high blood pressure?
— Dada Bhagwan
Religion stops the loot of illusion; and through non-religion, the loot of illusion begins.
— Dada Bhagwan
You no longer speak of your old friends, your Council, your home. I fear that you are forgetting them, and forgetting your reason for coming here.”Hunter sighed. “It’s difficult to talk about them, they don’t belong here. Anyway, I thought you wanted me to give up my old life. Congratulations, you’ve won.”The Abate smiled sadly. “Perhaps I did, I wanted you to abandon your violent past and adopt our ways. But I see that you are giving up everything and taking on nothing. What are you afraid of George?
— K.S. Marsden, The Shadow Falls
Mirror mirror on the wall, show the real me or naught at all.
— Gautama Buddha
Inner peace doesn't have to be religious, spiritual, or impossible. It simply means you think and act with clarity and compassion--no longer conquered by the storms of the mind.
— Janice  Anderson
The less you move on the groundthe more the world moves around.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
There is an underlying unity in all things
— Arthur Schopenhauer
What if your Vision Board came true?
— Juliette Power
The beauty of death is that it is a constant reminder of the limited time we spend here in this unique life on Earth. It is the ongoing wakeup call that reminds us to be joyous, to laugh, to love, to be compassionate and grateful, and most of all – to forgive.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Conflict forces us to be fully present because it shatters our ego – stripping away all hope of escape or sugar coating. It removes everything that is nonessential to our authentic being; it removes all superficial layers. Conflict is painful because it wakes us up out of our created illusions. And if we lean into it, conflict can be the catalyst to our enlightenment.
— Alaric Hutchinson
I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity.They have reflected back to me,everything that I refuseto See in myself.
— Meraaqi, Divine Trouble
n every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me. I’m overpowered by its scale. It’s so vast and so far away that my own insignificance becomes palpable. But I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m a part of it - tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. And when I concentrate in the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty out aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
If there is true ‘Selfishness,’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).
— Dada Bhagwan
Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Your sweet-toting and sugarcoating is of no service to anyone! Do not sugarcoat reality; it only gives the people in your life a sweet-tooth that then makes it more challenging for them to later bite down on the hardness of life. Do not tote and tout sweets either – you’re malnourishing people! Instead give them the truth. What is the truth you may ask? Authentic expression of who you really are, how you really feel, without projecting the labels of right or wrong.
— Alaric Hutchinson
I am confident in my FAITH because I know the character of God and am assured by the love and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
— Karen  Gibbs
The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
He's a hedonist at heart. All those fasts and vigils and stakes and crosses are only a façade. Or only like foam on the seashore. Out at sea, out in His sea, there is pleasure, and more pleasure. He makes no secret of it... He has a bourgeois mind. He has filled His world full of pleasures.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
When engaging in simple everyday banter and communications, this rule of thumb can really help suppress a lot of our negative word ‘vomit’ since we often mindlessly chat about the things we don’t like. If we refrain from expressing our negative opinions about things unless they’re directly asked for, we can train ourselves to respond rather than react the second we see or hear something and then feel we must verbalize our views about it.Remember, even if we don’t agree with someone or something, we can still speak about the subject at hand in a positive light to encourage growth rather than guilty motivation. I like to say I express more “inspirations” than “opinions” with each passing day.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own.
— Dada Bhagwan
When monetary dealing in religion stops, the religion will manifest its splendor!
— Dada Bhagwan
What spreads the stench of bad conduct? It is the egoism and other ‘flaws’.
— Dada Bhagwan
All that is ‘free of cost’ is compulsory (farajeeyat).
— Dada Bhagwan
We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others '.
— Brennan Manning, A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
We need to become sidha (straightforward)
—  there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic).
God may not give us what we want but He surely blesses us with what we need.
— Ashbeel Roy
Your eyes show you only what is in front of you
—  you must close them to see all other places.
No man will love you, though you gave your life for him, unless you have a pretty face. So (might it not be?), the gods will not love you (however you try to pleasure them, and whatever you suffer) unless you have that beauty of soul. In either race. for the love of men or the love of a god, the winners and losers are marked out from birth. We bring our ugliness, in both kinds, with us into the world, with it our destiny.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
The greater the time of grief or stress the greater reason we have to be in alignment with peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
— Munia Khan
There is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Peace, and there is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Love.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Now it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favourites have gone through longer and deeper throughs than anyone else.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
...true wisdom is the skill and practice of death.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Of the things that followed I cannot say at all whether they were what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
I could mend my soul no more than my face. Unless the gods helped. And why did the gods not help?
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours’, isn’t it?
— Dada Bhagwan
Seeing the faults of others is indeed an echo of our own fault
—  the biggest fault is our own fault. That is known as the mad ego.
How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
One cannot see one’s own mistakes in matters where his interest lies.
— Dada Bhagwan
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
We'd rather they were ours and dead than yours and made immortal.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.
— Dada Bhagwan
Once you have made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
He cannot ravish. He can only woo.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-righteousness of a secret society or a clique.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Some ages are lukewarm and complacent, and then it is our business to soothe them yet faster asleep. Other ages, of which the present is one, are unbalanced and prone to faction, and it is our business to inflame them.
— C.S. Lewis
Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Keep your opinion to yourself unless it’s asked for.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
The science of the spirit and its relationship to the body in which it indwells is a complex conundrum. Life is not what it appears to be. Life is wholesome, and this unison of synergistic amalgamations persuade the common view that one thing is the other. But one thing is many things - at the one time - and this simple truth goes to the essence of all life with its manifold complexities.
— Gabriel Brunsdon
He who does propaganda for something will become famous about it, and if he remains incognito about it, he will become renowned. The value is for the renowned state and not for that of a famous state.
— Dada Bhagwan
Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
I invite each of you to let go of your fears for just one day and say YES to life… say YES to love… say YES to You! You can always go back to saying ‘no’ another day.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?
— Dada Bhagwan
Pity moment, blah! Let’s turn it around! We do not even need to go into the story of it. We acknowledge this moment and release it. We love and accept and forgive ourselves. And we acknowledge that this is a tiny stitch, a brief pinprick in the needlepoints we are creating of our lives. And we also acknowledge that this lifetime of ours is but a tiny little stitch in the ever-expanding, infinite needlepoint of the Universe. Self-pity is not a reason good enough for us to be out of alignment with peace.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as this belief, ‘I am the doer’ is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one takes responsibility for the mistakes, he is the true person, isn’t it? Do not insist. Instead of insisting, instead of blaming others, take the responsibility of the mistakes on your head!
— Dada Bhagwan
Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand).
— Dada Bhagwan
What never happened will never change."(from "Oh, Leonardo")
— Adele Kenny, A Lightness, a Thirst, or Nothing at All: Poems
That which frees one from bondage is the right religion.
— Dada Bhagwan
Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.
— Dada Bhagwan
The one who straightens out himself will attain moksha [will be liberated]. If you don’t straighten out, people will beat you into doing so. The doorway to moksha [ultimate liberation] is narrow, so how will you be able to enter if you are obstinate?
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).
— Dada Bhagwan
Energies are to be expressed precisely with the person you don’t get along with. The energies are already there in dealing with the person you do get along with. ‘Not being able to get along’ is a weakness.
— Dada Bhagwan
I am unable to tolerate’
—  to say this is the lack of ability to tolerate and ‘I am able to tolerate’ is itself the ability to tolerate.
The person who tolerates ‘exactly’ (with understanding) hands over his ‘case’ to nature. There is no need to punish anyone. Nature itself will punish him.
— Dada Bhagwan
Tolerance is an attribute of egoism.
— Dada Bhagwan
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you. It will set your free.
— Mumford and Sons, Sigh No More
Don't you worry child see heaven's got a plan for you
— Swedish House Mafia
To know worldly relations as being ‘relation’ (temporary) will resolve everything. However, if they are believed to be true (real) relations, there will be insistence. In relative relations, one is not to prove ‘I am correct’. One has to bring about a closure by saying, ‘you are correct’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Everybody knows basically what is right and what is wrong. Everybody knows better than to hate others. In fact, most people teach against it, and yet we still see it on the daily. But why do you think that is? It is because the problem was never really humans not loving humans enough; the problem was humans not loving righteousness enough. We must empty our own love for the world so that it can be replaced by the love of Christ; only then will we begin to love people as Christ loves people, as He always intended.
— Criss Jami
Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost",he repeated softly,shutting his eyes.The word felt like a caress."what does it mean?"'It means "The Friend","The One I Love","the One I Long For".
— Muriel Maufroy, Rumi's Daughter
There is no Gnan (True Knowledge) where there is ‘egoism’ and where there is Gnan, there is no ‘egoism’.
— Dada Bhagwan
For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world
— Sri Aurobindo
Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.
— Dada Bhagwan
When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth.
— Dada Bhagwan
How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, ‘You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.’ That way you will sit on God’s side.
— Dada Bhagwan
One binds the worldly life with bad thoughts
—  one binds the worldly life with good thoughts. With the absence of thoughts (avichaar) there is moksha [liberation].
The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the ‘charge’ mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the ‘discharge’ mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.
— Dada Bhagwan
What does the world teach you? It teaches you (to do) egoism. Then, from that egoism, arise many many phases!
— Dada Bhagwan
The chit is semi-animate (half-alive) and the mind is completely physical.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the value of the Gnani’s [the enlightened one’s] feet? It is a value that is immeasurable. The Gnani’s feet is one & the only solvent to dissolve egoism.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as there is the egoism of ‘I-ness’ (hoonpanu) and the partiality towards ‘my-ness’ (marapanu), how can there be liberation till then?
— Dada Bhagwan
In reality, the outer instruments (hands, feet, eyes, etc) are not the hindrance (for liberation); it is the inner instrument (mind, intellect, chit and ego) that is obstructive.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you say a word against a ‘sensitive’ person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a ‘record’ playing.
— Dada Bhagwan
Sometimes answers come to you in ways that only you can understand. That is why it is so important to have a clear mind to receive and understand the message.
— Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
A thinking puppet is the mind of life: Its choice is the work of elemental strengths That know not their own birth and end and cause And glimpse not the immense intent they serve. In this nether life of man drab-hued and dull, Yet filled with poignant small ignoble things, The conscious Doll is pushed a hundred ways And feels the push but not the hands that drive. For none can see the masked ironic troupe To whom our figure-selves are marionettes, Our deeds unwitting movements in their grasp, Our passionate strife an entertainment’s scene.
— Sri Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Money is energy and in the right hands can help heal the world.
— Nikki Rowe
Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss.
— Dada Bhagwan
The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.
— Jean-Christophe Rufin, The Santiago Pilgrimage: Walking the Immortal Way
Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.
— Nikki Rowe
What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) means one shows lack of respect and to despise (viradhana) means one becomes an adversary (opponent).
— Dada Bhagwan
Not to be able to find one’s ‘own’ faults
—  this is called the world.
Flaw laden intellect shows faults in others. If you deviate even slightly in the wrong direction, you will see everyone at fault.
— Dada Bhagwan
To be able to see one’s own faults
—  this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit
Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion.
— Dada Bhagwan
Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has the [knowledge of the-Self] essence of all religions.
— Dada Bhagwan
One becomes bad himself when he sees or calls others bad. When others appear good to him, he will become good himself.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you praise the virtues of the person who is two degrees higher than you, if you worship him, if you serve him; this is known as aradhana (veneration; worship). If you say bad things about him, defame him; it is known as viradhana (despise). Viradhana (despise) results in your down fall and aradhana (worship) results in your rise upwards.
— Dada Bhagwan
To see others’ faults is a terrible mistake!
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the difference between aradhana (worship) and bhajana (to be one with)? Aradhana (worship) means the attention will go over and over again there, and bhajana (oneness) means continuous engrossment. One is to do aradhana (worship) and bhajana (oneness) for only one’s own Self; everything else will carry on naturally.
— Dada Bhagwan
All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects.
— Dada Bhagwan
Despise (viradhana) of a Gnani [the enlightened one] creates hindrance in (acquiring right) Knowledge-Vision-Conduct (Gnan-Darshan-Charitra).
— Dada Bhagwan
One will bother you only if you have a karmic account with him. No one can bother you without your signature (karmic cause). All this is due solely to your signature.
— Dada Bhagwan
The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself
—  this is known as the illusion!
To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults.
— Dada Bhagwan
There's three different kinds of Christian," said Cash. "There's preaching Christians, church-playing Christians, and then there's practicing Christian. I'm trying very hard to be a practicing Christian.
— Steve Turner
The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted.
— Dada Bhagwan
One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!
— Dada Bhagwan
Physical pleasures are not associated with attachment-abhorrence
—  the belief in an opinion itself is attachment-abhorrence.
Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.
— Dada Bhagwan
One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.
— Dada Bhagwan
Prakruti [the relative self, innate nature] has opinions and may store them but we should stay in an opinion-free state. ‘We’ are separate and the relative self is separate from us. ‘We’ should play our part as a separate entity. We shouldn’t get involved with those problems.
— Dada Bhagwan
Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.
— Dada Bhagwan
When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults.
— Dada Bhagwan
All this has been created from self-fault and self-imagination!
— Dada Bhagwan
This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.
— Dada Bhagwan
One should become free of mistakes so that there will be no superior over him.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there.
— Dada Bhagwan
God predestined His chosen people.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As many opinions you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whomever and for whatever matter, you have bound opinions, those opinions will continue to sting you and when you let go of those opinions, you can become natural.
— Dada Bhagwan
Heaven is thine and so it's mine. Elated, I cannot give to thee but receive it sublime. And if it's there to shine for all to see,.. Vast sea of love for us to seize. Ease the pain with a sweet kiss, water the Flowers...No shadows of a perfect bliss but the sunshine of ours.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual.
— Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society
Being dependent on this world will lead to betrayal. It will deceive us at the right time. It is better to depend on a pillow
—  at least it will not move away from us at the right time. The one that is living will move away.
Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.
— Dada Bhagwan
Joy is our native conditionLet go all non-joy and there is joy
— Ulf Wolf
God had said to listen to what five people tell you and don’t hold on to your own opinion. The person who holds on to his opinion is isolated. If you insist upon it, it will harm you as well as others. This true-false is a relative truth; it is a mundane [worldly] truth. One should not insist upon it.
— Dada Bhagwan
In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter?
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as there is insistence of the truth, one cannot know the Vitarag Lord [the enlightened one].
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is insistence, there is worldly life.
— Dada Bhagwan
Where there is the slightest insistence, there is no religion there!
— Dada Bhagwan
God has said for us to know bad, as bad and good, as good. But while knowing the bad, there should not be the slightest abhorrence towards it and while knowing the good, there should not be slightest attachment towards it. Without knowing bad, as bad, the good cannot be known as good.
— Dada Bhagwan
To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in ‘Us’ whatsoever!
— Dada Bhagwan
Insistence on one’s own opinion can never lead to attainment of Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. Only those who are free of insistence will attain Liberation.
— Dada Bhagwan
In Vitrag-Vignan [science of vitraag lords, the enlightened ones] there cannot be the slightest of the [wrong] insistence; moreover, there can be no insistence on one’s own opinion.
— Dada Bhagwan
There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no truth in this world that is worth insisting upon! Anything that is insisted upon is not the truth at all!
— Dada Bhagwan
The one, who does not have the ‘poison’ of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic).
— Dada Bhagwan
My life of conversation leads me to reimagine the very meaning of hope. I define hope as distinct from optimism or idealism. It has nothing to do with wishing. It references reality at every turn and reveres truth. It lives open eyed and wholeheartedly with the darkness that is woven ineluctably into the light of life and sometimes seems to overcome it. Hope, like every virtue, is a choice that becomes a habit that becomes spiritual muscle memory.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Every human being needs security. The one, who does not have security, will be in fear. So he will look for security outside if he does not get it at home. The Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] is the only one who does not need any security. The Gnani is considered to be free from all dependency (niralamb). Others will take support from Him, but He will not take any support. Only the Gnani Purush can remain free from dependency in this world.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life.
— Dada Bhagwan
It is only those who do not know who wander the paths. A blind eye and a stout heart create a true wanderer. Those who seek the paths do so in vain
—  only those who can see deep might hope to wander.
If you walk around proudly when someone greets you with respect or says, ‘welcome, welcome’, you will suffer a loss, right? Here, it was the other person’s duty [social obligation] to welcome you, but you shouldn’t fall short. So you should immediately check your balance-sheet (of karma) to find out where you sustained a loss!
— Dada Bhagwan
A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].
— Dada Bhagwan
One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?
— Dada Bhagwan
A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, ‘Someone is going to insult me…someone is going to insult me’ or ‘From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect?
— Dada Bhagwan
After getting respect, one will get an equal amount of insult, if not in this life then the next. If you taste even the slightest of pleasure from this body-complex [pudgal], you will have to pay back an equivalent amount. Therefore become attachment-free (vitarag).
— Dada Bhagwan
The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.
— Dada Bhagwan
It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.
— Dada Bhagwan
How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one knows how to ‘digest’ an insult after attaining Self-realization, he will become a ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one]. And if he ‘digests’ an insult before attaining Self-realization, he will become shameless (impudent).
— Dada Bhagwan
To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.
— Dada Bhagwan
Awareness’ will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.
— Dada Bhagwan
What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).
— Dada Bhagwan
Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.
— Dada Bhagwan
He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.
— Dada Bhagwan
Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.
— Dada Bhagwan
In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.
— Dada Bhagwan
In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.
— Dada Bhagwan
In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.
— Dada Bhagwan
One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.
— Dada Bhagwan
One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?
— Dada Bhagwan
One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari)
—  attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.
Even if you insult him, he gives you his blessings; such a one only is the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one]!
— Dada Bhagwan
For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.
— Dada Bhagwan
There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.
— Dada Bhagwan
Even the most aware of us do not realize the infinite power we possess or the magnitude of the ability we have to create, transmute, and transcend.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
When we are angry, when we are excited, when we are depressed, when we are elated, we are completely submerged in and identified with those thoughts and feelings. This is why we suffer. We suffer because we are completely identified with our thoughts and feelings and we think this is me. This is who I am.
— Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Ultimately, there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, its not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence.
— Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
It is very possible to acknowledge another person’s concerns without entering into their vibration.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
A single thought can shift your entire world.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea
— Munia Khan
I’m not here to disagree with people or try to change anyone’s mind. I’m just here to accept and love others right where they are – no matter their belief systems or backgrounds.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
I am not a victim of circumstance, situation, nor any external condition of life. I am an active participant in the creation of my reality, meaning, I am actively participating in the creation of what I think, what I feel, what I spend my time on, who I spend my time with, what I consume mentally and physically, and all the blessings and contrastive experiences that come my way. Every effect has a cause and every cause has an effect, all of which include me because it is my life to live, my life to use, and my life to enjoy.
— Alaric Hutchinson
For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
— Anselm of Canterbury
A ‘caring’ judgment is still a judgment. And any form of judgment creates blocks and stagnation.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
With all control look for the hole, your mind gets weak, unless it’s truth you seek. Swirled and twirled into another world, into the smog, a doorway within the fog.” Deetkatu, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
— Chris DiSano Davenport, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
If you say something over and over and over again you may just start to believe it. If you truly do believe it, you can be sure you will receive it."Selkie Anne, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
— Chris DiSano Davenport, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
I guess we all know that more souls will advance.” When you learn that life can make you wise, it’s no surprise that the light within you will grow and will shine for those you come to know.”Benoway, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
— Chris DiSano Davenport, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
OHHHH don’t make me cry, I’m a big strong guy, I can make you laugh and I’d never tell a lie, See my muscles on my legs when I swim, I can do back spins with the force of my fins. SOOOOO don’t make me cry, I’m a big strong guy, I can make you laugh and I’d never tell lie. The muscles in my heart are tougher than my shell, To “love” makes me stronger than to lift a barbell.”Willard the Sea Turtle, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
— Chris DiSano Davenport, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
Do you not believe, Governess, where this power comes from, you seek? It is not from the “things” you keep. I trust the Creator to take care of me. Come what may, I will stay out of your way.”Trinity, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
— Chris DiSano Davenport, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
Pretty things can be denied when it is beauty that comes from a place inside. Your outer appearance may have its place but to walk in beauty is to walk in grace. So lift your confidence to gain inner merit, then walk in beauty and connect to your spirit. Embellish yourself with art for fun, it enhances, inspires and in beauty, YOU RUN!"Maiara, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
— Chris DiSano Davenport, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
Might I take this moment to give thanks to our loving Creator for supplying us with all our needs for this day and always!” Grampa Foster, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
— Chris DiSano Davenport, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea
Being in our secret place brings much peace and the more we go there, the more it will increase. Now we let it all go by, have faith in what we see and it IS what will be.”Gramma Tenanye, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure
— Chris DiSano Davenport, See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure
With natural law there is no flaw, we must act in truth and be smart.”Grampa Foster, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure
— Chris DiSano Davenport, See the Little People...An Enchanting Adventure