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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional."

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Louise Hay Author, Motivational Speaker
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"We have a spiritual responsibility to be consciously grateful because that energy's frequency flows from us and assists in our own healing, our brother's and sister's healing, and ultimately the healing of the planet, our EarthMother."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour."

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Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace."

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer."

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