Spiritual Quotes
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Quotes of Henry David Thoreau
"Things do not change; we change."
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"
Quotes of Peace Pilgrim
You cannot leave a situation without spiritual injury unless you leave it lovingly.
If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.
Quotes of Jesus
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Quotes of Marcus Aurelius
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."
Quotes of Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
Quotes of Buddha
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
"Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness."
"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
Quotes of Milarepa
"If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart;
If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be;
And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me;
And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood."
- Songs of Milarepa
If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be;
And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me;
And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood."
- Songs of Milarepa
"All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others."
"Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life."
"Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others"
"Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?"
"Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive."
"To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind."
Quotes of Marie Curie
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Quotes of Tilopa
"Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience."
"No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself."
"Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest."
Quotes of Ramakrishna
"God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer."
"If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God."
"The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself."
"When divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low."
"Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious."
"Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached."
Quotes of Paramhansa Yogananda
"The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will."
Quotes of Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Quotes of Carl Jung
"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
Quotes of Irina Tweedie
I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me.... I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.
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