“If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 260 of 1176
“Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
“Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment”
“The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.”
“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.”
“The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.”
“I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.”
“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.”
“I came to set fire to the earth. And I am watchful that the fire grow. May the fire of love grow in our hearts. May the fire of transformation glow in our movements. May the fire of purification burn away our sins. May the fire of justice guide our steps. May the fire of wisdom illuminate our paths. May the fire that spreads over the Earth never be extinguished.”
“really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.”
“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”
“Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.”
“The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.”
“For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.”
“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”
“I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.”
“The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.”
“I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.”
“don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.”
“Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.”