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"Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see."
"God has no religion."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man"
"The more I started going through my own things in life, my faith got put to the test, and I had to believe that God is real in my heart, my lord and savior Jesus Christ, and I can't run from that. I'll always put that in my music or it just wouldn't be right. People can take it or leave it, I really don't care, because it's for me to put it on records. And I will continue to put more of a spiritual nature in my music."
"Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration."
"The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment."
"True Power is within, and it is available now."
"Walk with those seeking truth... RUN FROM THOSE WHO THINK THEY'VE FOUND IT."
"I love Humanity but I hate humans"
"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed."
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."
"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer."
"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
"Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual."
"Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved."
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
"If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart."
"At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life."
"There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself."
