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“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”

— Sai Baba

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“Our faith must be alive. It cannot be just a set of rigid beliefs and notions. Our faith must evolve every day and bring us joy, peace, freedom, and love…. Our actions must be modelled after those of the living Buddha or the living Christ. If we live as they did, we will have deep understanding and pure actions, and we will do our share to help create a more peaceful world for our children and all of the children of God.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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“It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other that blinds you.”

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

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Nelson Mandela

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

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“Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one’s Self - this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart’s torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete and, having attained to perfection, be your Self.”

— Anandamayi Ma

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“Do not look for signs. Do not look for experiences. Do not be so complicated. Become like a child. See everything with awe.”

— Robert Adams

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“Having a belief system - a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth - does not make you spiritual no matter what the nature of those beliefs is. In fact, the more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself. Many “religious” people are stuck at that level.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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“Not all of us are the product of our parents, our situations, our hardships; some of us are reactions. You do not walk in the rain and become the rain, you become wet and respond by running for cover. Similarly, just because your parents were unkind does not mean you are unkind, you’ve been hurt. Now, you show even strangers a greater kindness than you’ve ever known.”

— post-therapy thoughts || O.L.

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“The average person, while he thinks he is awake, actually is half asleep. By ‘half asleep’ I mean that his contact with reality is a very partial one; most of what he believes to be reality (outside or inside of himself) is a set of fictions which his mind constructs. He is aware of reality only to the degree to which his social functioning makes it necessary.”

— Erich Fromm

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You carry an epic poem in your cells. It’s an incomparable, sprawling, unique, meandering saga.

Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

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Buddha Quotes.

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“All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.”

— Osho

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“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”

— Gabrielle Roth

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You have to voluntarily examine your life, not condemn it, not say this is right or this is wrong but look. When you do look in that way, you will find that you look with eyes that are full of affection—not with condemnation, not with judgement, but with care. You look at yourself with care and therefore with immense affection—and it is only when there is great affection and love that you see the total existence of life.

J. Krishnamurti

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“Never forget that life is a blessing. A rare opportunity. When the illusion seems real, look up at the sun and remember who you are. Remember what it is within you. And in this, be joyful.”

— Robert Adams