True Nature Quotes - Page 10

• Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

  Brian Greene

  Nature, Motivation, Inspiration

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• How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Pain

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• If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

  Rumi

  Ignorance, Leader, Darkness

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• We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a singleminded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature.

  Henri Nouwen

  Giving Up, Healing, Grace

  "The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen".

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• One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Men, Long, Knows

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• [T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Love Is, Opposites, Ideas

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• Your true nature is purity, peace and joy.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  True Joy, Purity, Peace And Joy

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• No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

  Laozi

  Law, Meditation, Heaven

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• Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Evil, Soul

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• Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra. You will never go short, never will you have less. God will prevail by God's True Nature. If you have discomfort and hunger say, "God, that is Thy Virtue. Thank you for accepting me for that tragedy." This is the attitude of gratitude. "My shackles will be removed by Thy Will." God is so great, to Him the whole of what we have is just like a sesame seed.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Writing

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• You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Practice, Limits

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• An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Intelligent, Essence

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• It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

  Fred Hoyle

  Mistake, Learning, Example

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• One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

  Shirley Hazzard

  Love, Thinking, Wish

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• Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

  Peder Soerensen

  Discovery, Mountain, Valleys

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• How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY of love, and so that is ALL we have to give [and see] when we know ourselves as that.

  Mike Jeffries

  Lying, Giving, Answers

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• The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

  Jack Kornfield

  Freedom, Wholeness

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• I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia, as I have often done and continue to do in this book, irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth and an understanding of the lethal dangers that lie ahead.

  James Lovelock

  Lying, Book, Understanding

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• The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Self, Knowing

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• The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Firsts, Events

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.17, Penguin

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• Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Tasks, Discovering

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jan 13, 2013

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• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Journey, Giving, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

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• May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

  Jack Kornfield

  May, Knows

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