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-1- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love! (Marcus Aurelius)

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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive

- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love! (Marcus Aurelius)

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Remember this – that very little is needed to make a happy life.

It is all in your way of thinking. (Marcus Aurelius)

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality

of your thoughts. (Marcus Aurelius)

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Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.

(Buddha)

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitude of his mind.

(William James)

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If the only prayer you say in your life is “Thank You” - that will suffice.

(Meister Eckhart)

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Life is a series of choices and sometimes your only choice is what your attitude will be.

(Shantideva)

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It is our way of seeing the world that determines the nature of our feelings.

(Thich Nhat Hanh)

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I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better

than what I choose. (Epictetus)

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Though we can’t always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective,

we see things always happen for our best interests. We are always being guided in a way

better than we know ourselves. (Swami Satchidananda)

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Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.

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You are subtle and without mark, You are hidden even from the hidden.

(Rumi)

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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything

and every being that exists or lives. (Mahatma Gandhi)

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The longing to go back to the source is present in each being from the very time

that it is separated from the source by the veil of ignorance.

(Meher Baba)

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Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts can find no rest

except in Thee. (Saint Augustine)

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The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek

God, who is love. (Mechthild of Magdeburg)

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There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up,

embrace the fire. (Rumi)

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I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

(Abraham Lincoln)

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The acceptance of the omnipresence of God leads to a very profound conclusion.

You cannot be apart from Him under any circumstances, for otherwise it would mean

there are some places where He is not present, which naturally, is absurd.

(Mouni Sadhu)

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I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by

something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

(Carl Jung)

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Not an atom moves except by God’s Will. (Ramana Maharshi)

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Sometimes I take my dog for a walk and turn her loose in a field. When I can’t give her that freedom I feel in debt. I hope God thinks like that and is keeping track of all

the bliss He owes me! (Rabia)

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I have been all things unholy; if God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

(Saint Francis of Assisi)

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Understand this if nothing else: Spiritual freedom and oneness with the Tao

are not randomly bestowed gifts, but the rewards of conscious self-transformation

and self-evolution. (Lao-tzu)

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O Lord You have seduced me.

I was seduced. (Into Great Silence)

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To know the sweetness of the Infinite within us, that is the cause, the reason,

the purpose, the only purpose of our being. (Nicholas of Cusa)

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No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it.

His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.

(Paul Brunton)

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings

having a human experience. (Teihard de Chardin)

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The Path is but one step. Taking one step out of one’s self

to get to God. (Rumi)

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, everything is achieved.

(Zen saying)

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Meditation is the expression of your true nature; it is the activity which appeases

your inmost desire. (Suzuki Roshi)

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Sant Kirpal Singh

Meditation is most necessary, for only by meditation will all things come

of their own accord. (Sant Kirpal Singh)

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When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.

(Lord Krishna)

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In the center behind and above the eyes there is an aperture;

on this side of it is the material world, in which we are living now;

and on the other side is the astral world. (Baba Sawan Singh)

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No eye has seen, nor ear heard, not human heart conceived, what God has prepared

for those who love Him. (Saint Paul)

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Those who seek the easy way do not seek the True Way.

(Dogen)

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Not all spiritual paths lead to the Harmonious Oneness.

Indeed, most are detours and distractions, nothing more.

(Lao-tzu)

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Exalted, drawn, and absorbed into the uncreated Light, I beheld that which cannot be related.

(Angela of Foligno)

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Once you discover this Light and learn to live by it, your whole existence will be changed. Love will permeate your very being and it will burst forth from the very

pores of your body. (Sant Kirpal Singh)

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You were darkness once, but now you are the Light of the Lord.

(Saint Paul)

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My spiritual vision was so clarified that I saw beauty in every material object in the universe.

The glory of God appeared in all His visible creation.

(Starbuck)

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Your task? To work with all the passion of your being

to acquire an Inner Light, so you escape and are safe from the fires of madness, illusion, and confusion that are, and always will be,

the world. (Rumi)

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What is there to understand of each other: if a wand turned the sun into a moon would not the moon mourn the ecstatic effulgence it once was. We are all in mourning for the experience

of our essence we knew and now miss. The cure is Light, all else is a placebo.

(Saint Francis of Assisi)

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Feed your heart on the love of God that you may become immortal, and your face

illumined with Divine Light. (Rumi)

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The Music of the Spheres is so intense and swift that It pulls me up in an instant.

(Plato)

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Fortunate I am to have the Lord as my friend and companion, for endless symphonies

keep playing at His door. (Guru Arjan)

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Baba Sawan Singh

The sweet melody of the Music of the Spheres is endlessly playing within us.

(Hazur Baba Sawan Singh)

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Through the practice of listening to this Music, all sins, impurities and afflictions are removed. The pains of many births are eliminated and one gains bliss. Doubts and fears are destroyed. One enjoys heavenly bliss and dwells in his

Original Home. (Sant Kirpal Singh)

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There is a sound of truth vibrating within - a song which is sung in every being.

There is a great attraction in hearing this Sound, through which all other attractions will fade

away - one becomes free of them. (Sant Kirpal Singh)

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Sri Ma Anandamayi

I know there is a gold mine in you, when you find it the wonderment of the earth’s gifts you will lay aside as naturally as does a

child a doll. (Rumi)

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Reverse the outward perception of hearing and listen inwardly to the perfectly unified and intrinsic Sound of the mind-essence.

(Buddha)

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The Divine Music is incessantly going on within ourselves, but the loud senses drown the delicate music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

(Mahatma Gandhi)

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

(Tagore)

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Hope is effort, not wish; effort to make it so; not wish that it may be so.

(George I. Gurdjieff)

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A man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

(Euripides)

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Why crawl with belief when with a little more effort you can soar by knowing?

(Shantidasa)

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Such is the world, it is easily led away be nonsense; but when it hears of the Path of Truth,

it rejects it as false. (Kabir)

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Bright and luminous as you are you went to the world of darkness

and the world of darkness obscured your Light.

(Hermes)

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You are the bird of happiness in the magic of existence! What a pity when you let yourself be chained and caged. But if you can break free from this dark prison named body soon you will see you are the Sage and the Fountain of Life!

(Rumi)

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You are the bird of happiness in the magic of existence! What a pity when you let yourself

be chained and caged. (Rumi)