QUOTATIONS OF SPIRIT
It is then that you will hear a voice within yourself.
It was there all the time, but you never listened before.
Faintly it will
speak to you at first, but it will grow louder and clearer the more you take
heed of its message
until one day it thunders inside you and you will have come
home.
Rusty Berkus
God, Guru, and Self are ultimately one.
Guru Gita
You already possess everything necessary to become
great.
Crow
Godliness cannot be superimposed on humanness.
It is
humanness. There is no separation.
Know yourself and you will know
God.
Emmanuel.
The inner voice can be very scary sometimes.
You listen
and then you go "do whut? I don't wanna do that!"
But you
still have to pay attention to it.
Alice Walker
Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to
grow inwardly or that my growth
will stop at the dissolution of the flesh.
What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey
the call of Truth, my God, from
moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear.
My commitment
is to Truth, not to consistency.
Gandhi
Knowing others is wisdom; knowing the self is
enlightenment.
Tao Te Ching
One in All, All in One - If only this is realized, no more
worry about your not being perfect!
Seng-Ts'an
What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act
upon, must inevitable come to pass.
Colin P. Sisson
You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself],
you
have in yourself a part of [her].
Why then are you ignorant of your high
birth?
Epictetus
We are not human beings trying to be spiritual, we are
spiritual beings practicing to be human.
Jacquelyn Small
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond
yourself, you must know yourself.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When something happens to you, explore it.
You'll
probably see that you had something to do with its taking place.
You either created it, promoted it, or - at the very least - allowed
it.
The Portable Life 101
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of
self and other?
Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short
and long, life and death?
Can you let go of all these dualities and
embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic?
If so, you can reach the
heart of Integral Oneness.
Along the way, avoid thinking of the
Oneness as unusual, exalted, sublime, transcendental.
Because it is the
Oneness, it is beyond all that. It is simply the direct, essential, and
complete truth.
Lao Tsu
We do not see things as they are. We see them as we
are.
The Talmud
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters,
compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time
knowing you are more than your drama.
Ram Dass
Do not follow the ideas of others,
but learn to listen to the
voice within yourself.
Your body and mind will become clear and you will
realize the unity of all things.
Zen Master Dogen
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping
soul.
Schiller
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it
flamboyantly. No exceptions.
William James
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land
among the stars.
Les Brown
What you are is perfect imperfection.
Emmanuel
In Thy light shall we see the light.
Psalms 36:9
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of
the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
Ram Dass
Whether our compassionate action is done alone or
in a group,
inner exploration remains the complement to external action,
and, with time and patience,
it can lead to clearer awareness, action and
more integrity, and a freer flow of the heart's breath.
Mirabai Bush
You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep
peace that comes from meeting yourself and your sisters and brothers, totally,
without judgment.
A Course In Miracles
Love is the only force capable of transforming an
enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty
and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked
and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me I was in prison and you
came to me. Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of
these my brethren, you did it to me.
Jesus Christ
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens
can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Do not close your eyes before suffering.
Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means,
Including personal contact and visits, images, sound.
By such means, awaken yourself and others
to the reality of suffering in the world.
Gautama Buddha
When our hearts open, when we know that we are in
fact the world,
when we experience the pain of others in our own blood
and muscle,
we are feeling compassion.
Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush
It's all done with people.
Wavy Gravy
A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe"; a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings as something separated from the rest -
a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires
and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace
all living creatures, and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
In every corner of my soul, there is an altar to a different
god.
Fernando Pessoa
By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice
and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one
another.
Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush
Simplicity, Patience, Compassion. These three are your
greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the
source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with
the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings
in the world.
Lao-Tzu
If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we
would find in each man's life a sorrow
and a suffering enough to disarm
all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do what you do to another person, but never put them
out of your heart.
Kabir
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it
and whispers, "Grow, Grow."
The Talmud
Look to understand your negative feelings as a loving
mother
would understand a confused and frightened child.
Emmanuel
My religion is very simple - my religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama
It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act
peace, live peace, and live in peace.
Shenendoah
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Buddha
Like the mother of the world, touch each being as your
beloved child.
Buddha
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