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"All of us dwell on the brink of the infinite ocean of life's creative power. We carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"This is the supreme purpose of the present human phase of terrestrial history; that the normal crisis which has struck us shall be compensated by the renewal and growth of our beings, in the double form of a necessity and an attraction, of a divine pressure emanating from the Absolute."
The Vision of the Past
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"There is no complete error, no complete ignorance – ever. In the world what resists us helps us, as the ground which obstructs our feet, but is necessary in walking. There is no escape from the self."
The Glorious Presence
(Ernest E. Wood)
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"To understand everything is to hate nothing." Romain Rolland (1866-1944), French novelist, 'Jean-Christophe'
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"When one is anchored deeply in the divine solution to all problems, outer turmoil cannot disturb the inner tranquility. It is a peace that surpasses all understanding."
Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel - on Prayer'
(Thomas Dubay, S.M.)
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"The self turns out to be surprisingly resilient. It makes use of bits and pieces here and there and somehow keeps going. What may seem to be mere tactical flexibility, or just bungling along, turns out to be much more than that. We find ourselves evolving a self of many possibilities, one that has risks and pitfalls but at the same time holds out considerable promise for the human future."
The Protean Self, Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation
(Robert Jay Lifton)
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"Let all learn to recognize the true worth in others and in all things."
Saint Germain on Alchemy
(Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"It is the vision of wholeness that heals and is self-healing."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)
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"Fear can keep us from innovating, risking, creating. Yet we settle for only the illusion of safety. We prolong our discomfort, and we are troubled in our sleep. On one level we know that we are in danger, avoiding change in a changing world. The only strategies imaginative enough to rescue us will come from listening to our "other" consciousness ... "
The Aquarian Conspiracy
(Marilyn Ferguson)
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"Nothing can at any time reach to and hurt the inner consciousness. God is within, no matter what transpires without."
Letters on Occult Meditation
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Sacredness goes back and back through history to prehistory to before history, before thought, before mind had ever thought of anything at all. So experiencing the greatness of the sacred world is recognizing the existence of that vast and primordial wisdom, which is reflected throughout phenomena. This wisdom is old and young at the same time, and it is never tarnished or diminished by the relative problems in the world."
Shambhala
(Chogyam Trungpa)
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"Everywhere one Being, one Life – this is the goal of activity; the final state of equilibrium towards which the self is moving, or rather struggling, in the dimness and anguish of the Dark Night….The Dark Night is therefore an aspect or incident of the transition from multiplicity to Unity; of that mergence and union of the soul with the Absolute which is the whole object of the mystical evolution of man."
Mysticism
(Evelyn Underhill)
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"Always and in everything let there be reverence." Confucius, 'The Book of Rites', I
Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations
(Frank S Mead, editor)
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"Somehow it seems always that the spirit finds the proper means of education – a guru, a book, or crisis – when the life is amenable to change." Richard Roberts
Tarot Revelations
(Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)
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"Krishna…laid down in the 'Gita' the simple rules whereby depression and doubt can be overcome. They may be briefly summarised as follows: a. Know thyself to be the undying One. b. Control thy mind, for through that mind the undying One can be known. c. Learn that the form is but the veil which hides the splendour of Divinity. d. Realize that the One Life pervades all forms so that there is no death, no distress, no separation."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Only as we know ourselves can we bring about the inner transformation which will lead to a real and deep re-ordering of the world."
The Transforming Mind
(Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)
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"Everyone should see his life – at any age or time – as amenable to change for the better."
Saint Germain on Alchemy
(Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"Indeed, no one ever sincerely cries for light in vain."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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Joyousness that is weighed is not at peace. After ridding himself of mistakes a man has joy.
Often a man finds himself weighing the choice between various kinds of pleasures, and so long as he has not decided which kind he will choose, the higher or the lower, he has no inner peace. Only when he clearly recognizes that passion brings suffering, can he make up his mind to turn away from the lower pleasures and to strive for the higher. Once this decision is sealed, he finds true joy and peace, and inner conflict is overcome. -- Chapter 58 Line 4
I Ching or The Book of Changes
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"Have benevolence toward all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy for the afflicted, and tolerance towards the indolent and ill-behaved." Tattvarthasutra 7:11 (Jainism)
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles
(Caroline Myss)
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