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• The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Individuality, Needs, Conformity

  Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings.

  Gary Zukav

  Wisdom, Soul, Evolution

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• An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

  Ron Paul

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

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• "The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mirrors, Light, Giving

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• This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

  Bede Griffiths

  Reality, Church, Doctrine

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• There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Trying, Gains, Wealth

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• Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: "Stop, brother! I fall into graver sins every day, so how can I criticize him? In this way you will achieve two things; you will heal yourself and your neighbor with one plaster. This is one of the shortest ways to the forgiveness of sins; I mean, not to judge. `Judge not, and ye shall not be judged."

  John Climacus

  Brother, Fall, Mean

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• It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash.

  Anthony of Sourozh

  Exercise, Profound, Understanding

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• As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man. ... Through the glass of His Incarnation He concentrates the rays of His Divine Truth and Love upon us so that we feel the burn, and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the Man Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Fire, Glasses

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Answers, Might

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• For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

  Thomas Merton

  Fall, Air, Perfect

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.218, Shambhala Publications

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• ...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

  Bede Griffiths

  Powerful, People, Seductive

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• The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

  Bede Griffiths

  Humanity, Restoration, Harmony

  Bede Griffiths (1990). “A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith”, Templegate Pub

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• This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

  Bede Griffiths

  Unique, Ideas, Purpose

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• In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

  Bede Griffiths

  Pain, Agony, Heaven

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• It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer or to sadden our brother by refusing to answer him. But love is greater than prayer. Prayer is one virtue among others, whereas love contains them all.

  John Climacus

  Brother, Prayer, Love Is

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• What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Free Spirit, Mind, Lines

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• It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.

  Olivier Clement

  Heart, Lakes, Sky

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• Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His compassion He took our nature upon Himself. On Tabor He manifested it to His elect disciples clothed once again most brilliantly. He showed what we once were and what we shall become through Him in the age to come if we choose to live our present life, as far as possible, in accordance with His ways.

  Gregory Palamas

  Fall, Compassion, Illumination

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• The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Nature, Secret

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.

  David Kudler

  Religious, Civilization, Gone

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• He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Perfection, Flesh

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• If a man sins and denies it, saying, 'I have not sinned,' do not correct him, or you will destroy any intention he might have of changing. If you say, 'Do not be cast down, my brother, but be careful about that in the future,' you will move his heart to repent.

  Poemen

  Brother, Moving, Heart

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• Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

  Dan Brown

  Wisdom, Nature, Law

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• Grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God.

  C. F. W. Walther

  God, Christian, Heart

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