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"There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost."
"The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions."
"Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself."
"Every Christian must be fully Christian by bringing God into his whole life, not merely into some spiritual realm."
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"The direction of life is from duality to unity."
"To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest."
"To the wizard death is merely a belief."
"Without transcendence, life has no beauty."
"I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you."
"I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now."
"It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence."
"If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past."
"To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation."
"Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality."
"Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it."
"In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know."
"It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory."
"This bundle of ideas that we have held as being who we are is not actually the one who can make progress in the spiritual realm."
"The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical."
