Spirituality Quotes - Page 36

• The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Mind, Society

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• Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Joy, Heaven

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• Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature.

  Rajneesh

  Hard Work, Tired, People

  "The Book of Wisdom". Book by Osho, 1983.

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• This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will work, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance - what else is there to do?

  Rajneesh

  Love You, Sleep, Deep Understanding

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• Truth is always here. That's the only way truth can be. Truth cannot be anywhere else. The only time it can be is here, and the only place it can be is now. But the mind is never here and is never now. Hence, mind and truth never meet. The mind goes on thinking about truth, and the truth goes on waiting to be realized, but the meeting never happens. The meeting is possible only if mind stops functioning, because mind means the past, mind means the future. Mind is never here-now. Whenever you start thinking, you are going astray. If you stop thinking, suddenly you are at home.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Home, Past

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• Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Love Is, Wings

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• Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Acceptance, Order

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• When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

  Rajneesh

  Knowing, Ego, Agents

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• With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.

  Rajneesh

  Mirrors, Ego, Perception

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• This relaxation is the space in which happiness grows, and again I repeat: for no reason at all. It is not that you are happy because of something. You are simply happy. Happiness is your nature. Unhappiness is something nurtured, you have learned it. Every credit goes to you for all your misery, but for happiness, you cannot have any credit. It is natural. You were born happy. You were happy in your mother's womb.

  Rajneesh

  Mother, Space, Simply Happy

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• From birth to death you go on living, groping in darkness with no light - and you could have created the light. You cannot find it in the scriptures; nobody can hand it to you. It is not purchased or sold; it is nontransferable. But you can create it - you can put all your energies together. You can start living consciously from this very moment.

  Rajneesh

  Hands, Light, Darkness

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• Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors.

  Rajneesh

  Doors, Quality, Belief

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• Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Inspiring, Spiritual

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

  Ruth Benedict

  Spiritual, Sunshine, Storm

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.125, Transaction Publishers

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• Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Being Thankful, Greater

  "Moody Classics Complete Set".

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• We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, World, Want

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• True refinement seeks simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Spiritual, Simplicity, Refinement

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.227, Tuttle Publishing

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• The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

  Robert Adams

  Spiritual, Self, Mind

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• When mind and heart come together, mind serves consciousness instead of serving itself.

  David Icke

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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• Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

  Alfred Nobel

  Spiritual, Truth, Veils

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• Reality is negotiable.

  Tim Ferriss

  Life, Adventure, Reality

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• Nature does not proceed by leaps.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Spiritual, Doe, Leap

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• Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Karma, Spiritual, Moving

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.32, Harmony

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• All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Life, Spiritual, Art

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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• Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Inspirational, Happy

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)”, p.23, Hampton Roads Publishing

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