“That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 226 of 1176
“If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains”
“The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.”
“Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.”
“What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.”
“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
“I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”
“I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.”
“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”
“Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.”
“Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable”
“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
“The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.”
“All things are full of gods.”
“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
“I accept reality and dare not question it.”
“A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.”
“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.”
“If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.”
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”