Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

Beware of ‘god men’ and ‘god women’. Even people who have not been depressed for a day in their lives get sucked into the seductive delusion of spirituality. If you must seek, seek by yourself, sitting in an armchair at your desk after office hours. For while Buddha saw the light, we do not know...

By our ideas on how others ‘ought to be’ we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. – See beyond the limits of your expectations.

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

Ultimately not one amongst usWill ever be denied that,The glimmer of a chance to shine.

One day, you will find yourself close to the end, and thinking about the beginning. TODAY is that beginning. TODAY is life. You’ve got to live it.Live for what’s right. Live for what you believe in. Live for what’s important to you. Live for the people you love, and never forget to tell them how...

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Nature loves efficiency, which is very odd for something supposedly working at random. When you drop a ball, it falls straight down without taking any unexpected detours. When two molecules with the potential for bonding meet, they always bond- there is no room for indecision. This expenditure of least energy, also called the law of...

The most important lesson that we’re supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don’t learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pullback the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics,human expression and the human experience are universal. It is the greatnessof this experience that connects us together by infinite invisible threads strewnacross the globe. This is my responsibility, passion and desire as an artist—mysoul purpose.

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

Don’t just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to...

The calm within the storm is where peace lives and breathes. It is not within perfect circumstances or a charmed life… it is not conditional. Peace is a sacred space within, it is the temple of our internal landscape. We are free to visit it, whenever we seek sanctuary. Underneath the chaos of everyday living,...

The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.

destructive”. Achieving this (even in increments) will only transform you to into a better positive place

The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn’t about what you did wrong. It’s what you have not yet done.

Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps.

Somebody who is Christ’s must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.

God defines himself as “I am who I am”, which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!

The Ultimate Truth is, ultimately, a minority affair.

sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another form…science is god explaining god through a human nervous system…isn’t spirituality the same thing?

Our universe was created to perpetuate creation, it was not created to perpetuate consumption.

My path is not a better path, it is simply a different path.

… the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless

It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go

Success takes many forms. Most people strive for something unattainable without realizing that it’s already theirs.

The belief that every living thing has an individual soul is called animism. (Anima, which means ‘soul,’ is also the root of the word ‘animal.’) Anthropologists have found this belief to be universal in children, though the children themselves don’t think of it as a belief. It is, to them, one of the most obvious...

Love sparkles out from those giving and receiving it. It can be seen and felt. Love causes flowers to bloom, providing beauty. it causes hearts to bloom, providing the beauty which is instilled within me and you. Love always causes more love to grow.

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

What a joyful journey, to travel with the Lord.

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed…living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes!

Our faith gathers and slings together all the best and most altruistic principles into one set, utterly perfect in measure, and utterly potent in it’s defiance to the wickedness of this world.

Once you become aware of knowledge and you are conscious of knowledge, there is no going back to the previous conscious state of mind.

It was deeply a part of Lee’s kindness and understanding that man’s right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices….

I will never cut it as a Quaker – I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my protection – but I do love their silent hour, which in my case invariably evolved into a self-scouring meditation on the idea that the busy life is not the full...

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever form we can get it. I suspect that if anyone other than Jesus (Krishna, say, or Buddha) were suddenly put forward as being due for a second coming, millions in our postsecular society...

Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us.

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and...

Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. Often, at the bottom of all this, there is an attitude of giving up and running away from one’s own problems, with the...

Religion is the secret of life. It teaches us to love, to serve, to forgive, to endure, and to interact with our brothers and sisters with empathy and compassion. Advaita (non-duality) is a purely subjective experience. But in daily life it may be expressed as love and compassion. This is the great lesson taught by...

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

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