All Quotes By Tag: Spirituality
“Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.”
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“Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.”
“Surrendering is not giving up–it is gaining strength.”
“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.”
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“Health, peace of mind, peak performance, and success in any area of life all depend upon doing the right thing at the right time, in harmony with the cycles of the Four Seasons.”
“The essence of all spirituality and religion is to gaze into the endless unknown and unknowable with the capacity for awe rather than terror, for a willingness to feel connected rather than separate from the immense all.”
“I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.”
“I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.”
“I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people’s business, and God’s business.”
“If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.”
“Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.”
“Compassion begins when we realise that we are all struggling in our own way”
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“Of all the things we share, the most central is not in the liturgical or theological or canonical dimensions of the religion. It is in the realm of our personal search and experience of God. I have danced in a Sufi fikre, sat for hours in a Zen Buddhist tea ceremony, been part of a Hindu puja, attended Shabbat services in multiple Jewish synagogues, and never, in any of those moments of worship, did I doubt these people were just as deeply involved in the search for God as I am. And that God was with us all. And why not?God is everywhere, they told us as children. But the question never goes away: Yes, but – where is God for me? I don’t feel God. I don’t hear God. I don’t know how to know God. So God is surely in all these other places where the consciousness of God is also real, as well. But as much as I knew, even as a child, that it had to be true, that God was everywhere, still God was nowhere in particular in life. And, though I did not know it at the time, and so struggled through the thought of god for night after night in life, in that reality was all I needed to know about the search for God. It was years, of course, before I realized that I was looking for Something rather than for Everything, and so I found nothing because I was looking for the wrong thing. And that is the kind of seeking that causes all the pain.”
“The proof comes after belief, not before.”
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“People who tell you to stop living in a fairytale world are very likely people who live in a horror movie.”