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"If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment."
"If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality."
"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
"Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe."
"You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept."
"Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul."
"It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone."
"Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful."
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
"Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated."
"The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."
"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."
"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?"
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
