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"How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker."
"I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do."
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."
"When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass."
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
"Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real."
"...Where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that."
"Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality."
"here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
"Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you."
"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength."
"For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before."
"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."
"Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before."
"Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you."
"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."
"The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away."
