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The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are it―we become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close to this pleroma. His consciousness is still uncertain, wobbling on its feet. It is still childish, having just emerged from the primal waters. A wave of the unconscious may easily roll over it, and then he forgets who he was and does things that are strange to him. Hence primitives are afraid of uncontrolled emotions, because consciousness breaks down under them and gives way to possession. All man's strivings have therefore been directed towards the consolidation of consciousness. This was the purpose of rite and dogma; they were dams and walls to keep back the dangers of the unconscious, the "perils of the soul." Primitive rites consist accordingly in the exorcising of spirits, the lifting of spells, the averting of the evil omen, propitiation, purification, and the production by sympathetic magic of helpful occurrences."―from_Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious_
— Carl G. Jung
I learned that when we can be absolutely present like this, our mind, body and spirit become integrated and we are fully conscious, energised, peaceful, alive, at one with the true essence of what it is to be ourselves. In that moment, we can relate with compassion to those around usand to ourselves. It is when what we have satisfies us, and when what we don’t have doesn’t matter.
— Pam Billinge, The Spell of the Horse
O You !Come under the roof of LOVE.this is the only place where PEACE exist.
— ASHIQHUSSAIN
It's little got to do with anybody, just the energies we create.
— John Maiorana (oohGiovanni)
The whole of life but labours in the dark.For just as children tremble and fear allIn the viewless dark, so even we at timesDread in the light so many things that beNo whit more fearsome than what children feign,Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark.This terror then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,But only nature's aspect and her law.
— Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius on the Nature of Things
Stages may exist on the path, but there is no question of stages in the goal. The goal of man is self-realization. Self-realisation is never partial. What is partial is not Self-realisation.
— SWAMI SHARNANAND JI, ASCENT TRICONFLUENT
Interspirituality is not for everyone, but, for those of us who are interested, we have never lived in a better time to explore interspiritual practices. For the first time in history, we have easy access to all of the world’s scriptures and spiritual traditions.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.
— James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
God has made the Universe and all that is in it, can He ever fail to give us anything that we ask of Him today?
— Jocelyn Soriano, 366 Days of Compassion: One Year Devotional
I have this excellent notion that we each have our own soul's purpose. We aren't meant to be in a spiritual pissing contest. You be you and do your thing. I will be me and do my thing. Anything more or less is a waste of precious energy.
— Mishi McCoy
No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Spirituality is not making walls in the names of religions and prophets but to make more roads and bridges to reconnect with humanity.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
When you argue with reality, reality always wins
— Adyashanti
Pushing and passing to find my way to you my Lord, holding you in my prayers is feeling you and to feel you is to lose all fear
— John M Sheehan
Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.
— Harrish Sairaman
God's great Law is spiritual.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!
— Harrish Sairaman
A man who has HEALTH has a thousand dreams, but a man without HEALTH has only one.
— Unknown
As food is to the body, so is The Word to the Spirit of a disciple
— Christian  Michael, The Art of Bible Study
Unless you understand the difference between insight and revelation, you will be far from transformation.
— Christian  Michael, The Art of Bible Study
Insight + Application = Revelation
— Christian  Michael, The Art of Bible Study
We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one. 
— William Blake, Jerusalem
Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the process. Be still, God has a plan!
— Germany Kent
If we read the Word of God, we shall know the will of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I hope the Son is shining on you today.
— Athena Coleman, He Uttered "Soulmate"
The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t ever worry about losing those you love. Just remember that we are all on the same Tree of Life.
— Iva Kenaz, The Merkaba Mystery
After one divorce and other on the way I am seriously considering a ME-rriage now and .t's going to be epic! I will ask my hand in meTRInomy, for it will become a trigamy. And me, my higher self and third I will live happily ever after life...We will live in threesomeness!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
The term spirit might have evolved in a mystical fashion, but in today’s civilized and thinking society, it refers to simply your inner self. Spirit is the self, and the self is the soul. Hence, a spiritual person is a person who is more interested in realizing his or her inner self, than giving in to any conformity of the society.
— Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
There are only two things one can become: Conscious and Unconscious.
— Oaerys, Land of Fish and Stone
I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming right back to us.
— Andrew Kendall, The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
The Spirit calls, I must do the Masters will.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A sincere praise to God makes soul prospers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
MEDITATION & DEVOTION Most of our life issues and psychological problems occur from a lack of love and devotion. We are searching for love outside of ourselves. We are seeking to be loved, rather than to give love. A criteria of spiritual maturity is when we begin to give love, rather than to ask for love. Through developing love and devotion, we learn to love all beings. We develop our inner being, the meditative quality within, the inner source of love and truth, the divine source inside ourselves, through which we can let love flow through us, not only to benefit ourselves, but for the good of all.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Spirituality is strength of the spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Spirit calls, I must go fulfill the mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality nourishes the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Meditation nourishes the mind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Spirituality is not creating boundaries but creating space for others to come into your life.
— Amit Ray, Enlightenment Step by Step
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a creator, and inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Sentinels of treesbreathe life into bodies of earthly fleshAs their mighty arms reach to the starswe join in their quest for Helios’s mighty powerLike sentinels, we seek our placein the forest of nature’s gentle breath
— Ramon Ravenswood, Twilight Zone Encounters
Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.
— Jim Carrey
You whom my body longs for,where are you?In the stars, in the river, over the rainbow?Perhaps you hide in the shadows of the mountains,whistling in the wind through mighty peaksJust maybe you are in every corner of my beingawaiting invocationÔ Manna Breathfill my life with your infinite power
— Ramon Ravenswood, Twilight Zone Encounters
The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.
— J.Adam Snyder
Let the sounds of nature amplify your vibrations of peace.
— Patrick Zeis
True human connection is found at the level of pure consciousness.
— Patrick Zeis
I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in men’s minds, perhaps from a lack of a willingness to feel themselves utterly alone. But now and then I feel that there is something beyond the material world, somethings we all feel intimations of but cannot explain. Underneath the religious vision there is the harsh fundamental reality of all our lives, because we know we must live and die as the animals we are. But sometimes I suspect that under that harsh reality there is a further vision, still deeper based, that comes nearer to true reality than the reality we know.
— Winston Graham, The Black Moon
If you are filled with your own ways and bored with life, check your relationship with God - your boredom could be a signal that you have slide away from your creator.
— ANIKOR Daniel
Freemasonry is a spiritual practice that good men of every spiritual practice can agree upon.
— J.Adam Snyder
Every second, every minute, every hourour bodies breathe in the manna of Heaven.Our bodies resonate with the love and powerof creative cosmic rhythmsdancing through every cell in our beautiful beingness.Heaven is the heart of our atomic structure.Only with realisation of God manna within can the external cosmic energy fuse and ignite eternal bliss.Manna from Heaven.
— Ramon Ravenswood, Twilight Zone Encounters
Easter blessingsAll life’s sacrifices like autumn leavesawaken our sensesand power to love and be wholeOur Mother Earth, Our Father Skyembraces our happiness and laughterPraise be to freedom and life’s seasonsPraise be to Christ’s freedom song
— Ramon Ravenswood, Twilight Zone Encounters
Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!
— Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga
The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their despair – and for understandable reason. In most ways organized religion has abdicated its role of spiritual comforter, if not through its own malfeasance, the at least through dissociation from the soulfulness at the core of its mission.Modern psychotherapy has taken up some the slack, and yet it too fails deliver when it doesn the soult necessary to heal our emotional pain. The psychotherapeutic profession has now turned to the pharmaceutical industry to compensate for its frequent lack of effectiveness, yet the pharmaceutical industry lacks the ability to do more about our sadness than to numb it.
— Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset and the most power force available for the transformation of human suffering – whether some is taking medication or not. That is why learning the basics of a spiritual worldview – and the mental, emotional, and behavioral principals that this entails – is key to reclaiming our inner peace.
— Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
It is always worth asking, "Who speaks through us?
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories and characters captivating. Good spiritual writers share what they sincerely practice themselves.
— Donna Goddard
Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.
— Shannon L. Alder
When studying the world’s religions, there appear to be two primary paths available to those who want to practice their faith. One path is internal and contemplative in nature. The other is emotional, external, and actionable in nature. I have identified these as the paths of oneness and goodness.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Experifaith: At the Heart of Every Religion; An Experiential Approach to Individual Spirituality and Improved Interfaith Relations
If you are able to show goodness to yourself, your family, friends, and maybe to some in your community, you are doing better than most. In fact, it can be harder to show goodness to those who stand close to you than to those who are in faraway places. If more people tended to their own gardens, all of society would flourish as a result.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Experifaith: At the Heart of Every Religion; An Experiential Approach to Individual Spirituality and Improved Interfaith Relations
The upside of approaching spiritual practices like an experiment is that there can be no failure, only different outcomes. Whatever happens, you will learn about yourself and your relationship with the divine along the way.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Experifaith: At the Heart of Every Religion; An Experiential Approach to Individual Spirituality and Improved Interfaith Relations
So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.
— Alison Cooklin, The Light Travellers: Noura's Journey
In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many scientific circumstantial evidence, not the whole and sole doer].
— Dada Bhagwan
Everyone has excess awareness in one or two things. In everything else, he does have awareness indeed. If one has equal awareness in everything, he will indeed become a Gnani [the enlightened one].
— Dada Bhagwan
To talk [negatively] about someone specific is considered slander. You need to have a general understanding about things. Slandering someone is a sign of going to a lower life form in the next birth.
— Dada Bhagwan
When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?
— Dada Bhagwan
Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after century, the large and easy interior rhythms of a year that moves from birth, life, death, resurrection, on to spirit, obedience, faith, and blessing. Without liturgy we lose the rhythms and end up tangled in the jerky, ill-timed, and insensitive interruptions of public-relations campaigns, school openings and closings, sales days, tax deadlines, inventory and elections. Advent is buried under 'shopping days before Christmas.' The joyful disciplines of Lent are exchanged for the anxious penitentials of filling out income tax forms. Liturgy keeps us in touch with the story as it defines and shapes our beginnings and ends our living and dying, our rebirths and blessing in this Holy Spirit, text-formed community visible and invisible.When Holy Scripture is embraced liturgically, we become aware that a lot is going on all at once, a lot of different people are doing a lot of different things. The community is on its feet, at work for God, listening and responding to the Holy Scriptures. The holy community, in the process of being formed by the Holy Scriptures, is watching, listening to God's revelation taking shape before an din them as they follow Jesus, each person playing his or her part in the Spirit.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
If anyone understands, it's Jesus.
— Kelli Rae Hurst, Man of Sorrows
If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
Held tight as it seems to you in the finite, committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes, the unceasing flux of "natural" life— compelled to pass on from state to state, to grow, to age, to die— there is yet, as you discovered in the first exercise of recollection, something in you which endures through and therefore transcends this world of change. This inhabitant, this mobile spirit, can spread and merge in the general consciousness, and gather itself again to one intense point of personality. It has too an innate knowledge of— an instinct for— another, greater rhythm, another order of Reality, as yet outside its conscious field; or as we say, a capacity for the Infinite. This capacity, this unfulfilled craving, which the cunning mind of the practical man suppresses and disguises as best it can, is the source of all your unrest. More, it is the true origin of all your best loves and enthusiasms, the inspiring cause of your heroisms and achievements; which are but oblique and tentative efforts to still that strange hunger for some final object of devotion, some completing and elucidating vision, some total self-donation, some great and perfect Act within which your little activity can be merged.
— Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism
Gnan is that which does not let kashays arise when one’s pocket is picked.
— Dada Bhagwan
As I stumbled into confusion about what was real and what was not, the strangest thing happened: The world disintegrated. Reality collapsed, or my perception of it. It ripped apart like a dry skin under pressure, giving way to something I can only describe as ineffable dimensions, depths upon depths.
— Stefan Emunds, The Priest Whisperer
You benefit when you do not further entangle (confuse) an already entangled person or you benefit when you remove his entanglement. But what happens when you entangle the one who is already entangled? God is sitting within him, isn’t he?
— Dada Bhagwan
Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, one’s paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you say, ‘Now I look like an old man’, you will start to look like an old man. If you say, ‘No, I look like a young man now’, you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the ‘Real form of the Self’ (mood swaroop).
— Dada Bhagwan
A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.
— Robin Bertram
Forgiveness.... is moving one step closer to a united you.
— Donna Guillemette
Learning how to make The Path to My Heart an everyday journey...the road MORE travelled
— Donna Guillemette
I commit my life to listening to my own heart and soul.
— Donna Guillemette
In the game of life, gratitude triumphs over fear anyway. Your move...
— Donna Guillemette
True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.
— Evelyn Underhill, Practical Mysticism
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
— Walt Whitman
The separation of the individual from a corporeal relationship with the Soul is mirrored in the separation of the individual from nature. This is perhaps one of the most important spiritual and psychological poisons of modernity: the alienation of the individual from the wilderness of nature. The modern obsession with progress and technology has worked to effectively separate man from the unpredictable and uncontrollable milieu of the wilderness and the concomitant alienation of the Soul from the flesh. The modern mind worships the Techno-God and uses many methods to enforce the separation of the flesh from the Soul. Reconnecting to nature requires only concentrated periods spent in a natural environment instead of living a life entirely immersed in artificial environments Efforts should be made to spend significant time in nature to allow the Sacramental Vision to thrive and organically develop. Without a constant connection to nature, the primordial voice of the Soul will eventually fade into silence. Nature must become a constant companion.
— Craig Williams, Entering the Desert
Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.
— Anthon St. Maarten
A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.
— Marianne Williamson, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
There is only one God and all atheists will learn that after their deaths
— Munia Khan
There's a thin boundary between the light and dark side. Both are fervent to reign in the space of the other.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
Take, this day, my handand promise to absolvewhat my forefathers and I didto you and your kin.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves, Let's Go Dancing in the Light: A Collection of Poetry and Prose for Soul and Spirit
Give yourself a break from any holy book andstart looking at others as you want to be looked at. 
— Gloria D. Gonsalves, Let's Go Dancing in the Light: A Collection of Poetry and Prose for Soul and Spirit
Nothing that the Creator gave is of unworthiness.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves, Let's Go Dancing in the Light: A Collection of Poetry and Prose for Soul and Spirit
We are all angelic.Offspring of godly relic,accept and be prophetic.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves, Let's Go Dancing in the Light: A Collection of Poetry and Prose for Soul and Spirit
Does God get what God wants?That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us much to discuss. But there’s a better question. One that we actually can answer. One that takes all of the speculation about the future, which no one has been to and returned with hard empirical evidence, and brings it back to one absolute we can depend on in the midst of all of this which turns out to be another question. It’s not, “Does God get what God wants?” but “Do we get what we want?” and the answer to that is a resounding, affirming, sure and certain yes. Yes, we get what we want, God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our God-given power and strength to make the world in our own image, God allows us that freedom and we have that kind of license to do that. If we want nothing to do with light, love, hope, grace, and peace God respects that desire on our part and we are given a life free from any of those realities. The more we want nothing to do with what God is, the more distance and space is created. If we want nothing to do with love, we are given a reality free from love. If, however, we crave light, we’re drawn to truth, we’re desperate for grace, we’ve come to the end of our plots and schemes and we want someone else’s path, God gives us what we want. If we have this sense that we have wandered far from home and we want to return, God is there standing in the driveway arms open, ready to invite us in. If we thirst for Shalom and we long for the peace that transcends all understanding, God doesn’t just give, they are poured out on us lavishly, heaped until we are overwhelmed. It’s like a feast where the food and wine do not run out.These desires can start with the planting of an infinitesimally small seed in our heart, or a yearning for life to be better, or a gnawing sense that we are missing out, or an awareness that beyond the routine and grind of life there is something more, or the quiet hunch that this isn’t all there is. It often has it’s birth in the most unexpected ways, arising out of our need for something we know we do not have, for someone we know we are not. And to that, that impulse, craving, yearning, longing, desire God says, “Yes!”.Yes there is water for that thirst, food for that hunger, light for that darkness, relief for that burden. If we want hell, if we want heaven then they are ours. that’s how love works, it can’t be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says, “yes”, we can have what we want because love wins.
— Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
Self-confidence doesn't worth much, God-confidence is it!
— Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to living by instinct. A person who lives by instinct might survive for an enviable period, but they will never live a heroic existence. Every hero’s story commences with an unsatisfied and optimistic person venturing out from the comfortable confines of their common day world, facing forces of fabulous power, and fighting a magnificent personal battle. The greatest traditional heroes were warriors whom survived on the battlefield and learned valuable lessons of honor, love, loyalty, and courage. Heroic warriors and spiritual seekers undertook a rigorous quest, an enduring ordeal that enabled them to transcend their own personhood’s shallow desire merely to survive. By enduring hardships, experiencing breathtaking encounters with the physical world, and undergoing a spiritual renaissance, the hero gains a hard-won sense self-discovery, comprehends his or her place in society, and accepts their role as a teacher. A hero is a bearer of light, wisdom, and charity. The hero reenters society and shares their culmination of knowledge by devoting their life to teaching other people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I hope that I’m a good man ... it would be enough.
— James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams
A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
It takes high level of intentionality to maintain spirituality
— Christian  Michael
Society has become well versed in the methods necessary to weaken the radicalism of the Gospel by reducing Christianity to what is viewed as reasonable by the logic of the market and by a culture committed to a largely post-Christian, consumerist vision of human life. Thus the disruptive character of Christianity is silenced and Christian spirituality is repackaged as a soothing therapeutic exercise that serves the needs of a culture committed above all else to the enjoyment of consumer activities.
— Matthew T Eggemeier, A Sacramental-Prophetic Vision: Christian Spirituality in a Suffering World
Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.
— James Qualls, A Gathering of Dreams
Try to imagine this formless, liquid abyss of many waters and surfaces. With and within this awesome, abysmal substance, God Mother creates universes. We are made from this stuff, literally! And we literally live, move, and have our being in this fathomless, multi-dimensional matrix.
— Stefan Emunds, Genesis
Starting to believe Life is just a sigh of Death.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
In the beginnings, God Mother separates the earth from the heavens.
— Stefan Emunds, Genesis
And our Divine Parents have been molding God Child’s soul from stardust. And They have been breathing life-breath into its nose, and God Child’s soul has been existing as a Soul of Life.
— Stefan Emunds, Genesis
Since time immemorial, the serpent has symbolized organic vitality. Serpents move in curves and so does energy. The serpent developed from the Light created on the first cosmic day. In the firmament it manifests as the life-breath that animates souls. In the physical universe it manifests electro-magnetism, the light in substance so to speak.
— Stefan Emunds, Genesis
We are not here to give you the answer. We are here to give you an opportunity to have an insight and realize that you had the answers within the whole time. You couldn't recognize the answer without having it inside of you to begin with.
— Jessie & Jason, How The Creation Reveals The Creator
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world. 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone. A fragmented love which makes others lose will eventually turn upon itself and destroy the very thing which was being so carefully guarded. An open-hearted love will follow a course which can only lead somewhere good.
— Donna Goddard, Waldmeer
God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can mean both man and human, which may have caused the confusion in the first place. If Adam isn’t the first male Homo sapiens, who or what is he?
— Stefan Emunds, Genesis
Steadily, we are listening more to the intelligence of our hearts—and acting on that wisdom. And that's what spirituality is—an expression of Love.
— Danielle LaPorte, White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another
Realise that the love within is the infinite love and it is all that is.
— Ana Rangel, I am You
Over the years I have built up this tough outer skin around myself, almost like a bubble or a barrier. This has been keeping me safe, but it has not allowed me to feel deeply, to embrace life fully. You were the only one who truly supported me Mary…there was no barrier between you and I. But it is not the same with the rest of the world.’‘Have you now removed that barrier?’‘I am trying.’‘What’s under it?’‘Light, pure light
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
We all create our own reality
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
Fear is all in the mind
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
I am the soul…but is that true?’ she asked herself aloud. ‘What am I actually? I am not the soul, I am beyond the soul and yet I am nothing. I am an empty shell of living cells, where an essence that I’ve learned to recognise as me inhabits.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
I have a body, an emotional body and a mental body, but I am none of these. I am nothing and everything. I am an indivisible particle of oneness that can no longer be categorised
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
Everything is in constant mutation, expanding and contracting. All we hear, see or think is a projection of our own…or someone else’s brain. We create our own realities. My reality is different from everyone else’s…and theirs is different to mine and to each other. We only perceive what we can sense, see, feel…believe and imagine. Knowledge is mostly borrowed. The world is set up that way…books, people, internet, movies, television, radio.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
While we’ve been grabbing for things to give meaning to life, we have lost our way. We grow addicted to reference points. We grow afraid and lose our unfettered curiosity. Our wants, needs, desires, ideas, aspirations and beliefs, become so embedded that it is like they are glued to our cells, our nerves, our eyes, brain, heart…our whole body.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
Even this…even in my meditation I am preconditioned to feel or experience something predetermined. If we could all just allow ourselves to expand…stop allowing fear to hinder us and expand beyond limits…then, in the end, we will know that we are nothing, and nothing is all there is…nothing is everything.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
Who are you? That is what you need to remember.
— Ana Rangel, I am You
This is closer to reality, but not exactly so. In the Earth incarnation we have lost sight of whom and what we are. We have got so entangled in the game that we have forgotten where we came from and have started associating our sense of self with the personality. In humanity we have become defined by our physical selves, our bodies, our minds, our emotions. We think we are our thoughts. We do not remember…we do not remember that from the oneness we created this planet and the planes. We are the creators, and our mission is to detach from all the chains we imposed upon ourselves and create a bridge to the infinite self. Journey back to where we started.
— Ana Rangel, I am You
...because you have been purifying your fields for many incarnations so you no longer belong in the heavy density of the third dimension and you find it difficult to tolerate. But you have one last mission here and you are on the verge of knowing…follow your heart and your instincts.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
Nowadays, the concept of love is greatly trampled because there is too much permissibility.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
My mind is the sun,and my heart is the moon.In the sky between them,there I am.Cristen Rodgers
— Cristen Rodgers
We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.
— Stephen Covey
Our problems don’t stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.
— Stephen Covey
I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.
— Stephen Covey
There’s no such thing as negative energy on the spiritual plane. It is an illusion. All negative energy comes from the ego. What we call negative experiences are only contradictions of the human ego’s belief…how we think we want things to be. When we can’t control, or when things don’t work as we expect, we think it is negative. It is not, it just is.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
Emotional pain is also self-inflicted. It will remain with you until you reclaim the infinite power within. You need to be constantly mindful, expanding your awareness to go beyond your negative emotions. Be aware of your emotions and consciously raise them when they are low. People need to know that there’s something else beside the ego, the control, the power and the rules. You believe there’s something more, a reality that is aligned with your heart, you don’t fear. You are working your way out of the restricted perspective presented to you.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that agrees and disagrees, taking sides in an argument, disputing over mere words, but rather following with an intention to understand - a very difficult thing to do because most of us don't know how to look at, or listen to, our own being any more than we know how to look at the beauty of a river or listen to the breeze among the trees
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
God is not a follower.
— Alin Sav
We can hear God better, when we shut up faster.
— Alin Sav
Pure people pray powerful.
— Alin Sav
If you see this guy drowning, do not stop him, it might be Peter trying to walk on water reaching Christ.
— Alin Sav
If you want to know how to swim, you take lessons. If you want to walk on water, lessons won´t help you, just faith.
— Alin Sav
Revelation ends when prayer ends.
— Alin Sav
Every honest prayer is saved in God´s cloud.
— Alin Sav
The Gospel is about what Jesus did, not what we have to do.
— Alin Sav
Make your prayer life great again.
— Alin Sav
People who speak less, they usually pray a lot. I think that a great nation is a nation of prayer.
— Alin Sav
Sometimes the church isn´t the place where we meet Jesus, it´s the place where we hide ourselves from the world.
— Alin Sav
Too much church and too less Jesus is dangerous, it can transform you into a religious person.
— Alin Sav
If we would spend as much time with the world as we spend going to church, the church would grow.
— Alin Sav
Jesus came to earth to change our destination for all who believe.
— Alin Sav
I believe religion is not a path to God, it´s a path away from God. Religion is a human invention. Jesus never wanted to be found in a religion, but in a relationship.
— Alin Sav
The best day to pray is everyday.
— Alin Sav
Be as humble as you need to convince people that you are not Jesus.
— Alin Sav
You can´t gossip about somebody you prayed for. (sb on your prayer list)
— Alin Sav
Pray the prayer nobody dares to pray. "as in heaven, so on earth".
— Alin Sav
God didn't create us to be average.
— Alin Sav
WE MUST ENJOY THE PRESENT, EVERYDAY THERE IS SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING THAT WE CAN BE GRATEFUL FOR.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving & The Peaceful Wristband: How to Keep The Atraction Alive and His Love Growing For You
Focus on what God can do through you.
— Alin Sav
So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives delight - if you can look at it without wanting the experience to be repeated, then there will be no pain, no fear, and therefore tremendous joy. It is the struggle to repeat and perpetuate pleasure which turns it into pain. Watch it in yourself. The very demand for the repetition of pleasure brings about pain, because it is not the same, as it was yesterday. You struggle to achieve the same delight, not only to your aesthetic sense but the same inward quality of the mind, and you are hurt and disappointed because it is denied to you.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want to, but don't just slip into it. If you want to end pleasure, though, which is to end pain, you must be totally attentive to the whole structure of pleasure - not cut it out as monks and sannyasis do, never looking at a woman because they think it is a sin and thereby destroying the vitality of their understanding - but seeing the whole meaning and significance of pleasure. Then you will have tremendous joy in life. You cannot think about joy. Joy is an immediate thing and by thinking about it, you turn it into pleasure. Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
Death is an illusion. It is the way to rebirth or ascension. It is the point when you realise that you are the spark of the one life, and that you always have and always will have that divinity within you. It is not something to fear.
— Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley
You have to look inside, to pursuit spirituality.
— Irfa Rahat
The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.
— Paul O'Brien
Surrendering: The act of giving yourself entirely to a new self, and then let go of your personal freedom for the achievement of something greater than you had before, a new you, a new self, envisioned and designed by yourself. Surrendering, to a God or to a Dream, or to both, is the ultimate act of designing your new future and then letting go the present reality to live that dream. It is, indeed, the creation of a virtual reality in which one will find himself present, after detaching from the previous reality, which will then become virtual by default. Because, as one cannot surrender without accepting, one cannot get without letting go. And so, when one surrenders entirely, he becomes entirely new.
— Robin Sacredfire
Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless and infallible, we suddenly realize that we have obtained bloodless, sentimental and false personalities incapable of both good and evil. Separating them from mother Earth, we separate them from life, and where is no life, there is no virtue either.
— Alija Izetbegović
The word “inevitable” is fearful to the ego, but joyous to the spirit. God is inevitable, and you cannot avoid Him any more than He can avoid you.
— Foundation for Inner Peace, A course in miracles: Text, Vol. 1
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
— Marianne Williamson
T-4.II.5. Undermining the ego’s thought system must be perceived as painful, even though this is anything but true. Babies scream in rage if you take away a knife or scissors, although they may well harm themselves if you do not. In this sense you are still a baby. You have no sense of real selfpreservation, and are likely to decide that you need precisely what would hurt you most.
— Foundation for Inner Peace, A course in miracles: Text, Vol. 1
T-4.II.4. Think of the love of animals for their offspring, and the need they feel to protect them. That is because they regard them as part of themselves. No one dismisses something he considers part of himself. You react to your ego much as God does to His creations,–with love, protection and charity. Your reactions to the self you made are not surprising. In fact, they resemble in many ways how you will one day react to your real creations, which are as timeless as you are. The question is not how you respond to the ego, but what you believe you are. Belief is an ego function, and as long as your origin is open to belief you are regarding it from an ego viewpoint. When teaching is no longer necessary you will merely know God. Belief that there is another way of perceiving is the loftiest idea of which ego thinking is capable. That is because it contains a hint of recognition that the ego is not the Self.
— Foundation for Inner Peace, A course in miracles: Text, Vol. 1
Protect your mind everyday.
— Alin Sav
Faith makes things work out.
— Alin Sav
T-4.II.6. Only those who have a real and lastingsense of abundance can be truly charitable. This isobvious when you consider what is involved. Tothe ego, to give anything implies that you willhave to do without it. When you associate givingwith sacrifice, you give only because you believethat you are somehow getting something better,and can therefore do without the thing you give.“Giving to get” is an inescapable law of the ego, which always evaluates itself in relation to other egos. It is therefore continually preoccupied with the belief in scarcity that gave rise to it. Its whole perception of other egos as real is only an attempt to convince itself that it is real. “Self-esteem” in ego terms means nothing more than that the ego has deluded itself into accepting its reality, and is therefore temporarily less predatory. This “self-esteem” is always vulnerable to stress, a term which refers to any perceived threat to the ego’s existence.
— Foundation for Inner Peace, A course in miracles: Text, Vol. 1
If Jesus ist not enough, you´ve lost.
— Alin Sav
He Loved perfectly an unperfect me.
— Alin Sav
Jesus is not just "faith", it´s a true reality, but we just don´t get it.
— Alin Sav
If you want to get good in Leadership, you probably should start reading the bible.
— Alin Sav
Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.
— Alin Sav
The Gospel is the good news, not the grouse news. Preaching is not beating, it´s informing in a christlike way.
— Alin Sav
Don´t judge people, who preach the Gospel differently than you do.
— Alin Sav
God´s love proves God´s rightousness.
— Alin Sav
A good Christian needs Jesus. A great Christian needs Jesus. A christian sinner needs Jesus. Pope needs Jesus.
— Alin Sav
God prefers rightousness over peace.
— Alin Sav
How much faith you put in a prayer is more important than how much you pray without faith.
— Alin Sav
Every time when somebody opens his heart to God, the big bang theory works.
— Alin Sav
Efficient Christians are those who walk with God.
— Alin Sav
Real christians always forgive before they are asked for forgiveness.
— Alin Sav
While the world changes, the cross stands firm.
— Saint Bruno
In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, the materialistic life can be so absorbing that we get caught in it and forget about spirituality. What we need, he said, is soul, in the middle, holding together mind and body, ideas and life, spirituality and the world.
— Thomas  Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.
— Alan W. Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Light is the magician of the cosmos.
— Bruce Watson, Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
We have entered the Age of Light. The ages of steam and coal are long gone. With oil clinging to power, light is emerging as our deus ex machine. Light goes where nothing else can, gets there faster than anything else could, and brings back the images. If there are limits to light, other than its cosmic speed limit, we have not tested them. If there is a final answer to the question "What is light?" we have not found it.
— Bruce Watson, Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness
— Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology
Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.
— Abhijit Naskar
If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and sell tickets to the Kingdom of that God. Thus emerged all the pompous lies about the extraterrestrial Kingdom of God or Heaven.
— Abhijit Naskar
We don't have the luxury to say that, there is no hope for reform in Islam, because by saying this, we would be disavowing the entire peace-loving Muslim population of the world. We cannot leave our Muslim sisters and brothers behind to be oppressed by their own priestly tyrants, while the rest of the world keeps progressing with an open mind. The entire civilized society of the world, must put their heart and soul to get Islam liberated from the shackles of fundamentalism. Conscience must triumph over orthodox barbarianism, otherwise there would be no hope for the progress and wellbeing of humanity as a truly wise species.
— Abhijit Naskar
W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.
— Alan W. Watts, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Even if you are not aware of it, there are moments when you are receiving hints, a nudge, or support from the other side.
— Linda Westphal