“Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 251 of 1176
“The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.”
“Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.”
“Suffering is the way for Realization of God.”
“The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.”
“For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.”
“The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.”
“Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.”
“Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.”
“Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.”
“Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.”
“The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.”
“Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.”
“Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.”
“Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.”
“The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.”
“Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.”
“If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
“God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.”