“If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 216 of 1176
“Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.”
“You are the effect of your story, that's all.”
“Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.”
“If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.”
“Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.”
“You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.”
“Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.”
“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”
“Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.”
“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.”
“Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.”
“Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.”
“The wonders of nature are endless.”
“It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.”
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”
“Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.”
“When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.”