“With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 255 of 1176
“Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”
“Dependent Origination is the teaching (that life) is not the mere play of blind chance, but has an existence that is dependent upon conditions. That, precisely with the removal of these conditions, those things that have arisen in dependence upon them-thus also all suffering-must perforce disappear and cease to be.”
“As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.”
“We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.”
“I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of truth by whomsoever offered -- that truth which we can all find, if we will but seek in things, not in words; in nature, not in human imagination; in our own hearts, not in temples made with hands.”
“Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.”
“The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.”
“Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.”
“Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .”
“I am very indecisive. I'm always afraid of making the wrong decision.”
“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.”
“We are all part of the life cycle. Like a seed we are born, we sprout, we grow, we mature and decay, making room for future generations who, like seedlings, are reborn through us. As for the persistence of consciousness, deep down, I thought, 'How can we know?' Perhaps we simply return to the elements; we become earth and air and fire and water. That seemed all right to me.”
“Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.”
“I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.”
“How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.”
“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”
“The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.”
“The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.”
“We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.”