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God is in everyone

The holy bible

There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as if everything is a miracle.

-Albert Einstein

The intuituive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

-Albert Einstein

The root word of crowd is - crow The crowd has always been the greatest source of blind ignorance, gossup and evil. The crowd shows up in a mask, calling it self a great many things both holy and patrotic.

But no matter how it has disquised itself, it is still the crowd, a source of great blind ignorance, gossup and evil.

- Victor Hugo

Reality is not what we conceive it to be, but often what we selfishly pretend it is-

If we really want to feel loved,
we must learn how to forgive all the way back to our earlyest memory.

--Somebody real smart

You don't get harmony when everybody sings

the same note.

-Doug Floyd

You must be the change

you wish to see in the world.

-Mahatma Gandhi

What you are looking for

is what is looking.

-St. Francis of Assisi

The only journey is the one within.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

This we know: All things are connected

like the blood that unites us.

We did not weave the web of life,

We are merely a strand in it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

-Chief Seattle

Man emulates earth

Earth emulates heaven

Heaven emulates the Way

The way emulates nature.

-Henry David Thoreau

You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end.

-Jeanette Berson

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from

finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

-Eckhart Tolle

Wherever I go, I meet myself.

-Tozan

You can out-distance that which is running after you,

but not what is running inside you.

-Rwandan Proverb

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well then, love your suffering.Do not resist it, do not flee from it. it is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

-Hermann Hesse

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Bashô, Narrow Road to the Interior

You cannot transcend

what you do not know. To go beyond

yourself, you must know yourself.

-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light.

-Plato

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

-Gilbert Keith Chesterton

You need not do anything.

Remain sitting at your table and listen.

You need not even listen, just wait.

You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.

And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.

It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

-Franz Kafka

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.

-Bob Marley

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately,

Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

-Gary Zukav

When you know that you are eternal, you can play your true role in time. When you know you are divine you can become completely human. When you know you are one with God you are free to become absolutely yourself ...

-Mother Meera

A ship is safe in harbor-- but that's not what ships are for.

-John A. Shedd

Why run around sprinkling holy water?

There's an ocean inside you, and when you're

ready you'll drink.

-Kabir

The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightning and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.

-The Upanishads

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

-Paramahansa Yogananda

It is eternity now; I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is immortal life.

-Richard Jefferies

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

-George Harrison The Inner Light

I shut my eyes in order to see.

-Paul Gaugin

The true vocation of man is to find his way to

himself.

-Hermann Hesse

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

-Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

Truth does not become error just because nobody believes it.

-Gandhi

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

-Benjamin Disreali

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

-Anna Freud

The unexamined life is not worth living.

-Socrates

We either make ourselves miserable or we

make ourselves strong. The amount of work

is the same.

-don Juan Matus

as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.

-Dr. Wayne Dyer

Our own heart,

and not others'opinions of us,

forms our true honor.

-Friedrich von Schiller

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

-Kahlil Gibran

Only the dead can die, not the living. That which is alive in you is immortal.

In reality there is only the source, dark in itself, making everything shine. Unperceived, it causes perception. Unfelt, it causes feeling. Unthinkable, it causes thought. Non-being, it gives birth to being. It is the immovable background of motion. Once you are there, you are at home everywhere.

-Nisargadatta Mahraj

Only those who partake of the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature.

-Paramahansa Yogananda

Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly from the Absolute."

-Rumi

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

-Marcus Aurelius

He who knows others

is clever; He who

knows himself is enlightened.

-Lao Tzu

Sound when stretched is music.

Movement when stretched is dance.

Mind when stretched is meditation.

Life when stretched is celebration.

-Ravi Shankar

We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

-T.S. Eliot

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

-Anais Nin

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

-Lao Tzu

You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

-George Bernard Shaw

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

-Immanuel Kant

Sometimes it is not necessary

for the problem to solved.

Change the angle of vision

and the problem dissolves.

-John C Lehman

I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me

until the last small twig has grown.

-Kathe Kollwitz

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

-Christian Nestelle

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

-Henry David Thoreau

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

-Maori Proverb

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

-Thomas Merton

We cannot teach people anything;

we can only help them discover it

within themselves.

-Galileo Galilei

Not being known doesn't stop the truth

from being true. -Richard Bach

You are a crowd, a multitude.

Just you have to look more closely, more deeply,

and you will find many people within you.

And they all pretend at times to be you.

-Osho

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

-Native American Proverb

The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

-Aristotle

The Awakening is no other than

Consciousness becoming acquainted with itself.

-DT Suzuki

Never fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby.

-Ruth E. Renkai

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things

brought together.

-Vincent Van Gogh

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

-Jimi Hendrix

The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

-Albert Einstein

to be yourself-

in a world which is doing its best

night and day

to make you everybody else-

means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight

and never stop fighting.

-ee cummings

Pain is illusion;

joy, reality.

Pain is but sleep;

joy is awakening.

Pain is deception;

joy alone is truth.

And so again we make

the only choice that ever can be made;

we choose between illusions and truth,

or pain and joy,

or hell and Heaven.

-A Course In Miracles

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

-Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We are not bodies with souls. But souls with bodies.

-Kevin R. Bean

Life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense out of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not problematic, you are the problem.

-Anthony de mello

God has no religion.

-Gandhi

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.

-Richard Bach

The wind cannot shake a mountain.

Neither praise nor blame moves a wise man.

-Buddha

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -Anais Nin

To know that you do not know is the best.

To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.

-Lao Tzu

Don't stand by my grave and weep,

for I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond's glint on the snow,

I am sunlight on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn's rain.

Don't stand by my grave and cry,

I am not there, I did not die.

-Unknown Native American

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

-Carl Jung

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

-Francois Voltaire

Turn your gaze inward.

Correct yourself and your world will change.

-Kristin Zambucka

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

-Vernon Howard

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

-Kahlil Gibran

Dance like no one is watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like no one is listening,

Live like it's heaven on earth.

-William Purkey

The Great Way is not difficult--

Just cease to cherish opinions.

The Third Zen Patriarch

There is in all visible things...a hidden wholeness.

-Thomas Merton

One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

-Mother Meera

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

-e.e. cummings

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

-Oliver Wendall Holmes

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

-Chuang Tzu

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

-Mary Brave Bird

It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Task must be to free ourselves...

by widening our circle of compassion

to embrace all living creatures,

the whole of nature, and its beauty.

-Albert Einstein

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow--

and that is likely to hurt.

-Wei Wu Wei

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