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"Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my name or form? What is my purpose if there is one? What do I want out of my life? What am I grateful for? Just a little bit of reflection like that starts you on the journey."
"I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice."
"Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe."
"...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different."
"Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars."
"The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity."
"The Soul is on a journey through cosmic time, and you can orchestrate your journey through cosmic time, when you have awakened to the bigger reality."
"My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness."
"Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life."
"Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life."
"You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, whereas our slavery journey was uni-directional. We are as certain we are not going back to that old kind of slavery as we are that we aren't going back to the geocentric universe."
"That’s my next journey - to be a great actress."
"Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs."
"My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind."
"Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked."
"The spiritual journey is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living."
"For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter."
"We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless."
"When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired."
"The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields."
