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"Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but right away I found that not eating meat made me feel good about myself. It increased my self-esteem, which I found so rewarding, I wanted to do more."
"Going around this country, I have found a great hunger in America for spiritual revival; for a belief that law must be based on a higher law; for a return to traditions and values that we once had. Our government, in its most sacred documents - the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and all - speak of man being created, of a Creator; that we're a nation under God."
"Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives."
"Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe."
"The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment."
"I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed."
"I call him religious who understands the suffering of others."
"Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state."
"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."
"The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly."
"If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked."
"The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others."
"Everything popular is wrong."
"As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth."
"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."
"The spirit is the true self."
"What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path."
"Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love."
"Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man."