Spiritual Quotes - Page 13

• Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Yield, Long, Soul

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• Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Men, Long, Soul

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Philosophy, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Wisdom, Hands

  1977 Illusions.

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• Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiring, Karma, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

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• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Depression, Running

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• Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Taken, Misery, Reason

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.12, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Who I Am

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.27, Penguin

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• Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum. It becomes a search for ecstasy - no matter what kind achieved through destruction...The worshipful integraton of nature in the person is inverted in a hellish imprisonment of the individual in nature."

  Olivier Clement

  Momentum, Elements, Matter

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• Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  God, Friday, Easter

  Hans Von Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr (2010). “To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption”, p.39, Ignatius Press

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• Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"

  Al-Ghazali

  Change, Wise, Wisdom

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Nature, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Order, Masters

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

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• Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

  James A. Baldwin

  Arrogance, Atheism, Christianity

  "Letter from a Region of My Mind" by James A. Baldwin in "The New Yorker" (November 17, 1962), republished as "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind" in James A. Baldwin "The Fire Next Time", 1963.

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Positive Thinking, Meditation Practice

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• To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Self, Fearless

  Twitter post from Jul 2, 2014

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• Come to God for your healing. Don't hesitate. God, who is so full of goodness and supply, is always willing to bless, preserve, heal and restore you.

  Joseph Prince

  Faith, Jesus, Believe

  Joseph Prince (2012). “Healing Promises”, p.51, Charisma Media

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• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  Deena Metzger

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Parent, Spirituality, Practicals

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• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

  Chanakya

  Education, Moving, Here And There

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• The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Strong, Men

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• The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Believe, Intuition

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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