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All of man's troubles stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
- Pascal |
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All philosophy is based upon the premise that we think, but it is equally possible that we are being thought.
- Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Believe in God with childlike faith; for simplicity with intelligence is the sign of the Holy Ones.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their children, and their children’s children
- Noah benShea |
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Enough shovels of earth..........................a mountain.
Enough pails of water...............................a river.
- Chinese Proverb |
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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it
and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'
- The Talmud |
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From below the tree eats earth and drinks water through its roots. From above it partakes of fire and breathes air through its leaves. Every tree is a cosmic pole grounding Heaven in the soil of Earth and inspiring in Earth the soul of Heaven.
- Pir Zia Inayat Khan |
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God becomes the human being, so that the human being can become God.
- Author Unknown |
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God is the cosmic Engineer. The universe is the great generating plant - the infinite storage battery. While God is the Chief Engineer, man is His subordinate, or assistant; placed here for the purpose of learning every phase and process by which the elements and energies of this great power plant may be generated, directed, controlled and used.
- Will J. Erwood |
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Have you not yet seen how all things yearn for the one: the essence of wakefulness? Only there is there joy. Joy is wakefulness in love, and sadness is the precondition of joy, not because there exists an antithesis to joy, but because no one can let himself fall deep enough without sorrow.
- Arnold Keyserling |
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He who can live up to his ideal is the king of life; he who cannot live up to it is life's slave.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.
- Kabir |
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I see now that all creatures have perfect enlightenment - but they do not know it.
- Tathagata |
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
- Dawna Markova |
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If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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If you are seeking closeness to the Beloved, love everyone. Whether in their presence or absence, see only their good. If you want to be as clear and refreshing as the breath of the morning breeze, like the sun, have nothing but warmth and light for everyone.
- Shaikh Abu-Said Abil-Khair |
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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It is in the very midst of life that we have to develop and express all that is beautiful and perfect and divine in our souls.
- Sarfaraz |
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Just be quiet and still and the world will offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will rill in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka |
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Let our distress not overshadow our faith in a better world and our joy of
contributing to it each in our way.
- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan |
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Let these words fly through time to someone coming.. You know who you are.. This Love has nibbled on your ear whispering secrets that don't make sense to anyone else.
- Jalaluddin Rumi |
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Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
- Thomas Browne |
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Look! Even now the King is scattering Treasure from the Palace... But this Gold is only caught by those who make themselves an empty space before it.
- Jalaluddin Rumi |
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Love brought man from the world of unity to that of variety, and the same force can take him back again to the world of unity from the world of variety.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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Man is never helped in his suffering by what he thinks for himself, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than his own. It is this which lifts him out of his distress.
- Carl Jung |
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Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
- Buddha |
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On Meditation: When he can go into the inner chamber and shut the door to every sound but to that of his soul, he will know the keynote of his life.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Baba Ram Dass |
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Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.
- Alan Cohen |
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People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine |
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Prayer is a way of making the common profound by pausing, tying knots around a moment, turning our life into a string of pearls.
- Noah benShea |
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That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
- Lao Tse |
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The crux of spiritual practice is the sublimation (not the crushing) of what is commonly called the ego and ... the false notion of the self that needs to be replaced by the ego of God.
- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan |
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The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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The feeling - is the Prayer. All of the things that we do (incense, candles, chanting, rituals) is to create the feeling. The feeling is the Prayer.
- Abbot of a Tibetan Monastery |
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The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
- Saint Teresa of Avila |
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The mouth of the world is the starting point of growth.
The Earth utters you. She is the eternal Mother. She gave you a name, which you must discover. This name is your Path, your true angel.
- Arnold Keyserling |
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The really valuable thing is intuition. Through meditation I found answers before I asked the question. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein |
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The truth cannot be spoken; that which can be spoken is not the truth.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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The wise man, by studying nature, enters into unity through its variety, and realizes the personality of God by sacrificing his own.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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There are all these religions, so everyone can sing along, and all these people singing together make just one song.
- Jalaluddin Rumi |
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This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.
- Author Unknown |
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We begin as the seeker and discover we are the One who is sought.
- Taj Inayat |
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
- Anais Nin |
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We might say that God uses man as a step-down transformer through which to reveal His, God's own Divinity to a waiting world.
- Will J. Erwood |
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When you stand with your back to the sun, your shadow is before you; but when you turn and face the sun, then your shadow falls behind you.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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Wonder arises when your purpose falls into line with the right way--all at once everything proceeds of its own accord. Do not take on false motivations. They reveal their fraudulence in that they cannot be thought through to their conclusion. Thinking is a force, feeling leads to new motivations. Remain receptive to both and truth will become attainable.
- Arnold Keyserling |
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You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda |
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Your faith in me would be of no use to me. What I need is your faith in you.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan |
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