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Spiritual Quotes — page 170 of 1176
“I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died.”
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”
“I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.”
“No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”
“Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.”
“I did not find you outside, O Lord, because I made the mistake of seeking outside you who were within”
“The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.”
“According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there”
“Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.”
“It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.”
“The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.”
“Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.”
“Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.”
“Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.”
“Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way”
“We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.”
“Faith is God's work within us.”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
“Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.”