“Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 107 of 1176
“You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.”
“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.”
“If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.”
“How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.”
“The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.”
“Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.”
“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.”
“Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.”
“Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.”
“Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.”
“Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.”
“Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?”
“Silent harmony is the gift you give yourself... As you push past the infinite, you can feel your own music, your own frequency, beginning to project itself past you, beyond infinity, into nowhere, starting to generate its own star.”
“The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.”
“Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak”
“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
“In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.”
“If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.”