“I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 227 of 1176
“This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.”
“Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.”
“The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.”
“The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.”
“No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.”
“Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.”
“The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.”
“Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.”
“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!”
“From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind. This is the direct path for all. The mind is merely thoughts. Of all thoughts the thought "I" is the root.”
“A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.”
“Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.”
“There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.”
“My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.”
“One cultivates spaciousness or awareness which allows you to acknowledge the emotions and see them as part of the human condition. Emotions are like subtle thought forms and they all arise in response to something outside yourself. They are all reactions. You cultivate a quietness in yourself that watches these emotions rising and falling and passing away.”
“You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.”
“Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.”
“Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.”
“Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.”