"There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind."
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"If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years."
"The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self."
"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him."
"Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?"
"Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
"For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part."
"You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you."
"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists."
"You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle."
"You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings."
"There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind."
"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information."
"Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual..."
"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."
"Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction."
"Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not."
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
"Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom."
"Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment."