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"Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree."
"In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths."
"Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice."
"The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas."
"We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war."
"Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over."
"The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it."
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god."
"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."
"You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow."
"The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life."
"Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods."
"Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute."
"Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain."
"Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love."
"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."
"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."
"Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water."
"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."
