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• If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot last, you will not respond appropriately when happiness comes knocking at your door in the form of romantic love. No matter how much you may have waited and cried, you will not welcome love when it arrives-you will find a way to sabotage it. What a challenge to resist this temptation! What an opportunity for true spiritual growth and transformation-to defy your negative feelings and honor the gift that life offers you!

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love, Spiritual, Opportunity

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.

  Kenny Loggins

  Spiritual, Perfect, Soul

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are here to learn lessons and our birth chart tells us what our lessons are, what type of energy we possess in the first place, and how, by facing up to the challenges presented to us in life, spiritual growth will ensue. The birth chart is a 'tool' to guide us through our life. By understanding our basic make up, we can learn to make the most out of our positive points and try to improve on our weaker ones.

  Stephen Arroyo

  Spiritual, Astrology, Understanding

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• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Dust

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• In pursuing personal growth, there are issues where we can advance just so far by ourselves. At some point, our continued progress and improvement can only come about through relationships with others. Romantic love is an intense and intimate exposure to another person; if we can be who we want to be, even in that context, then our spiritual growth is exponentially expanded.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Love Is, Romantic Love

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Growth

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• People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is universal and which can be enlightened. It is something beyond the conception of human beings that they can achieve this kind of a spiritual growth within themselves.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Song, Giving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.263, Penguin UK

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• At a certain point I left my spiritual teacher because I began to see the limitations of my teacher, who was a very powerful occultist, but who I thought was, to some extent, limiting others in their spiritual growth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Powerful

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• Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Enemy

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• Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, People, Growth

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• I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Growth, Mind

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Growth

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• The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.

  James H. Austin

  Happy, Spiritual, Attitude

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press

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• To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Emptiness

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• The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

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• The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

  Daniel Goleman

  Spiritual, Stress, Practice

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• Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Spiritual, Growth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Eye

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “There Is A Community Of Spirit”

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• No mirror ever became iron again;
  No bread ever became wheat;
  No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
  Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
  Become the light.

  Rumi

  Courage, Maturity, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• Spiritual growth is the only real growth

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Spiritual, Real, Growth

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• We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. The encouraging message of the gospel is that God does not often require us to perform sensational or extraordinary deeds but rather to try to do better today than we did yesterday. He is mindful of our desires, our determination, and our direction as well as of our deeds.

  Brent L. Top

  Spiritual, Determination, Yesterday

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• As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.

  Duane Elgin

  Spiritual, Real, Simple

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• As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth.

  Gary Zukav

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Experience Yourself

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not sex per se - your identification with the body is the impediment to your spiritual growth.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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