“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
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Spiritual Quotes — page 33 of 1176
“We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.”
“Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
“Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession”
“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”
“Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.”
“We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”
“Harmony is next to Godliness”
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”
“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”
“You're on earth. There's no cure for that.”
“I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.”
“I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”
“There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.”
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”
“During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me anything relevant to my own life or experience. Not one instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn more or to question or to explore the worlds of literature, science, and history. All they did was try to rob me of the sense of my own uniqueness and worth, and in the process nearly killed my urge to inquire.”
“Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.”