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"Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart."
"In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity."
"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."
"Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge."
"Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around."
"To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness."
"Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality."
"The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable."
"The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love."
"One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole"
"Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue."
"The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence."
"We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around."
"Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it."
"In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or suffer excommunication. I believe history will record that the intent to impose such an excommunication was invalid and illicit."
"Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent."
"But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society."
"Like a caring mother holding and guarding the life of her only child, so with a boundless heart of loving kindness, hold yourself and all beings as your beloved children."
"For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island exists where there is no place for impediments, no place for clinging: the island of no going beyond. I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying."
