Posts Tagged ‘Spirituality’

Posted: January 21, 2012 in Quotes
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To suppose that God Almighty has confined his goodness to this world, to the exclusion of all others, is much similar to the idle fancies of some individuals in this world, that they, and those of their communion or faith, are the favorites of heaven exclusively; but these are narrow and bigoted conceptions, which are [...]

Posted: January 12, 2012 in Quotes
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I’d like to share this little meditation with you. First, could we agree that God’s protection surrounds us? Know that you are God’s beautiful child, always in God’s hands. Accept God… accept God’s protection… there is really no problem to fear. Know that you are not the clay garment. Know that you are not the [...]

Posted: December 29, 2011 in Quotes
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The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much. It wants to draw your attention in completely. Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously. – Eckhart Tolle

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find [...]

Posted: December 11, 2011 in Quotes
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His question: ‘Why dost thou cling fast to an existence so short and so filled with suffering? What is the meaning of thy struggle?’ The man who did not know how to answer this question would resign himself, while another, one who sought a meaning to existence, feeling that God had been unjust, would challenge [...]

Posted: October 13, 2011 in Quotes
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. – Benjamin Franklin

Posted: July 15, 2011 in Quotes
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The religion of the future: a cosmic religion. Should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Natural and the spiritual, should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description…If there is any religion that could cope with modern [...]

Posted: June 25, 2011 in Quotes
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All of us, without being taught, have attained to a belief in some sort of divinity, though it is not easy for all men to know the precise truth about it, nor is it possible for those who do know it to tell it to all men. – Julian

The Invitation by Oriah

Posted: May 24, 2011 in Poetry
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It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for [...]

Posted: May 15, 2011 in Quotes
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My heart holds within every form, it contains a pasture for the gazelles, a monastery for Christian monks. There is a temple for idol-worshipers, a holy shrine for pilgrims; there is the table of the Torah and the book of Koran. I follow the religion of love or go whichever way his camel leads me. This is the [...]