All Quotes By Tag: Life

“I hope when you experience deep sadness you have the courage to redirect your lifeI hope you appreciate the value of time and never allow money to consume you”

“When does infidelity begin, Rachel wondered as she crossed the park at lunch time on her way for the afternoon shift at work. Does it start with a word? A look? A touch? When does it become too late to remain a faithful wife?”

“Make existential liberation your spiritual orientation.”

“Once you expand the meaning of freedom, you expand the universe within…”

“Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it.”

“The purest worship is to simply love — to see the image of God in every human; to love them as they are, now they are, who they are — without demand, without condition, without fear.”

“God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.We have been living lives as stones, flowers, trees and animals in order to develop our consciousness. Stones, flowers and animals also have consciousness. The more matter, the less consciousness. The more consciousness, the less matter. God is not a person, God is the underlying thread of consciousness in existence.Real love means to realize that we are one with the other person, one with nature, and one with the trees, the stones, the earth and the blue sky. It means to realize that all of life is God.I was 9 years old when I had my first spiritual awakening, my first glimpse of wholeness with existence. This created a deep thirst and longing in my heart and being to return to this natural and effortless experience of being one with the Whole.I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth, the inner language of silence. Now I notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence. It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with existence. It means to find the whole existence within myself, it means to discover that existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an ecstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart.It is to realize that the whole existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.Silence is the inner door to God.”

“I think loneliness is one of the greatest and realest things any of us can experience, because there is no one else there to corrupt it or interfere with our perception… which makes it extremely intimate and yet universal simultaneously.”

“View your life as a form of art, and dare to turn it into an existential masterpiece.”

“Turn your life moments into a unique art of existence.”

“I challenged my fear last night and I can tell you that my fear is really afraid of me now!”

“The day you start seeking the truth is the day when your death becomes your friend.”

“While the most will sleep, a few will creep, in places deep, where dark things keep.”

“It’s done now, Tony said. We can’t change what’s already been decided.Can’t we? I wondered. Even just a little? Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breathe, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?”

“I close my eyes and listen vaguely in a half sleep as he does the things he does before he sleeps each night. Brushing and squirting and splashing. So many things. People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.”