"There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play."
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"You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life."
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"The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice."
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"Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness."
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"When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us."
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"This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be interpreted to mean that the power of the civil magistrate may be exercised in spiritual or soul matters."
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"Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact."
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"Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination."
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"To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul."
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"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."
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"God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery."
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"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl"
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"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
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"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it."
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"To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life."
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"We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water."
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"The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire."
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"Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?"
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"Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds."
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"This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere."
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