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Spiritual
teachers ultimately agree that true wisdom does not come from
outside us, but from within. And it does not come from within
simply because we want it. It comes when we live in a way
that invites wisdom. It comes through direct experience.
- Rabbi David A. Cooper
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Friendship
is the marriage of souls.
- Voltaire
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One
has no friend who has many friends.
- Aristotle
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One
friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly
possible.
- Henry Adams
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The
true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command
from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and
in it we meet God.
- Martin Buber
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The
soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.
- Aristotle
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Whenever
the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary
facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept
heavily guarded by our words.
- Carlos Castaneda
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Meditation
is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself
awake.
- Thomas Merton
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Not
only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in
the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling
on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.
- Sri Aurobindo
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To
the illuminated mind, the whole world sparkles with light.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In
my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither
God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that
God and I are both the same.
- Meister Eckhart
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To
see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.
- William Blake
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Overcoming
of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute
is the greatest mystical achievement. In mystic experiences,
we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of
our oneness.
- William James
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We
cannot comprehend spiritual things with ordinary intelligence.
- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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If
there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress
of humanity towards perfection.
- Plato
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People
have never fully used the powers they possess to advance the
good in life because they have waited upon some power external
to themselves to do the work they are responsible for doing.
- John Dewey
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Evolution
of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.
- Sri Aurobindo
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When
you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have
no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation,
you will have no rigidity.
- Confucius
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Man
is a creature who has received the order to become God.
- St. Basil
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I
don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
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It
is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment.
To realize the truth is to live -- to exist here and now.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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All
methods and techniques -- and of course all human beings who
propound them -- are merely instruments to help the student
obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.
- Paul Brunton
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If
you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life.
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
- Thomas Merton
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The
true value of a human being is determined by the measure and
sense in which one has attained liberation from the self.
- Albert Einsein
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There
are moments in your life when you must act, even though you
cannot carry your best friends with you. The "still small
voice" within you must always be the final arbiter where
there is a conflict of duty.
- Gandhi
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You
give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when
you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Kahil Gibran
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No
spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring
and going beyond its own strength.
- Montaigne
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Iron
rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity; even so
does inactivity sap the vigor from our minds.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
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Nothing
in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be
learned the hard way.
- Carlos Castaneda
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There
is no completeness without sadness and longing, for without
them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without kindness
and knowledge without sobriety are useless.
- Carlos Castaneda
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Self-importance
is man's greatest enemy. What weakens him is feeling offended
by the deeds and misdeeds of his fellow men. Self-importance
requires that one spend most of one's life offended by something
or someone.
- Carlos Castaneda
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The
greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory
of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason
deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never
seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments:
we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.
- Carlos Castaneda
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