"Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all." —Timothy Freke

"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them." —Charles C. West

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." —Meister Eckhardt

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." —Rabbi Harold Kushner

"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs." —James Allen

"Your perception is your reality." —Matt Dunlop

"In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are." —Colin Gunton

"Light that is One though the lamps be many." —Robin Williamson

"I am grateful for life
And all that I love
I am grateful for the Earth
And the Sun up above
I am grateful for my spirit
And my inner being
For the One that I express
And the joy of this feeling"
—Owen Waters

"You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do." —The Group

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." —Teilhard de Chardin

"I close my eyes in order to see." —Paul Gauguin

You are as old as God and as young as the morning. –Hilda Charlton

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. –Clement of Alexandria

The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. –Siddhaswarupananda | Quotes

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
–Henry Miller

When you reflect on your life... Are you happy with who you are? Click to watch this video... "This movie is a wonderful way to remind us of the serene and wise being that lies behind our everyday mind-chatter and habitual feelings. The real you, that has unlimited creative potential, that is a channel of God's love. Remember, there's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it weren't already within you." —Peter Shepherd

Prayer of St Francis:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace...

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

"We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For 'not' means 'other than,' and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility — boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom." —Charles S. Peirce

"Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is." —Peter Shepherd

"Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Good, tortured by it's own hunger and thirst? When Good is hungry, it seeks food, even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters." —Kahlil Gibran

"To err is human; to forgive, divine." —Alexander Pope

"Love... if you don't have it, no matter what else you may have, it's not enough." —Ann Lander

"A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves." —Maharaji

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well." —Elisabeth Kubler Ross

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." —Johann von Goethe

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"Choose again.
Pretend that you are enlightened.
Pretend that you are loved by God.
Pretend that you are perfect just the way you are.
Take a deep breath now and PRETEND WHAT IS TRUE.
Then everything will make sense.

"When you pretend something that is true, then you immediately become that Truth.

"First the energy of God descends upon the Earth, then it pretends whatever it wants to be, then it ascends back to its source. You are God pretending to be whatever you are right now. Do you understand what this means? You have allowed yourself to descend, but by pretending to be less than what you are, you have not ascended back to God."
—Thomas (Indigo Child)

"Love is much more fundamental than any kind of thinking or believing. It is the root and basis of who you are, at the most fundamental level. This means that anything other than love as an expression of your being is artificial and unnatural and is a result of not knowing who you are." —Bill Harris

"Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love
Time is not."
—Henry Van Dyke

"We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess." —William Arthur Ward

"Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds." —Louise Hay

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true." —John Lilly

"Don't believe everything you think."

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." —Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

"Don't think you are, know you are!" —Morpheus, in the film Matrix

"Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in." —Willis Harman

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." —The Talmud

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." —Meister Eckhart

"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." —Alfred Korzybski

"What is needed is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." —Bertrand Russell

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart." —Helen Keller

"Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open." —Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you..."
Peter Shepherd

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." —John Lubbock

"Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?"

"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow—it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."
—Shakti Gawain

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don't Take Anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. 3. Don't Make Assumptions Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. 4. Always Do Your Best Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

—Don Miguel Ruiz

"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."
—Chinese Proverb

"What we think is less than what we know;
What we know is less than what we love;
What we love is so much less than what there is.
And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are."
—R.D. Laing (The Politics of Experience)

"When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us." —O. Pirmez

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." —Leonardo da Vinci

"You live in illusions and the appearance of things. There is a Reality, you are that Reality. When you recognize this you will realize you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all." —Kalu Rinpoche

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." —William Blake

"Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of soul in this age." —William Blake

"I sought my God and my God I could not find. I sought my soul and my soul eluded me. I sought my brother to serve him in his need, and I found all three—my God, my soul, and thee."

"Gratitude is the heart's memory." —French Proverb

"My religion is simple, my religion is kindness." —Dalai Llama

"Faith is like a toothbrush. Every person should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn't try to use someone else's." —J. G. Stipe

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." —G.K.Chesterton

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." —Buddha

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." —The Dalai Lama

"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

"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions." —Eckhart Tolle

"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." —Barbara DeAngelis

"My religion is simple, my religion is kindness." —Dalai Llama

"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness." —Dalai Lama

"God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you." —St. Bernard of Clairveux

"The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads"

"Wisdom begins in wonder." —Socrates

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." —Johannes A. Gaertner

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light." —Plato

"The best way to know God is to love many things." —Vincent Van Gogh

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." —Carl Schurz

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." —Henry Van Dyke

"The highest form of spiritual work is the realization of the essence of man.... You never learn the answer; you can only become the answer." —Richard Rose

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