🕊️ Spirituality

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“God is at home, it is we who have gone out for a walk.”

— Meister Eckhart

“Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #barriers

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be just be one”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #action #goodness

“Let the beauty we love be what we do there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground”

— Rumi

#spirituality #beauty #devotion

“The mind is a bundle of thoughts and thoughts arise because there is the thinker”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #mind #thoughts

“Thy heart is the light of this world. Do not cover it with thy mind.”

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

#spirituality #heart #mind

“Silence is the language of God; all else is poor translation.”

— Shams Tabrizi

#silence #God #spirituality

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #journey #openness

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart and you shall see that you are weeping for that which has been your delight”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #sorrow #delight

“Wherever you are is the entry point to the divine”

— Kabir

#spirituality #divine #presence

“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.”

— Blaise Pascal

#nature #infinity #humility

“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #words #enlightenment

“Let be in a state of utter openness all things are intrinsically free no need to be bound by outside measures”

— Longchenpa

#spirituality #openness #freedom

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

— Thomas Aquinas

#love #identity #soul

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #suffering #strength

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”

— Joseph Campbell

#spirituality #authenticity #life

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are where else do you expect to find it”

— Dogen

#spirituality #truth #here

“Happiness is your nature it is not wrong to desire it what is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #happiness #nature

“The problem is not enjoyment the problem is attachment”

— Tilopa

#spirituality #attachment #enjoyment

“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”

— Rabindranath Tagore

#spirituality #time #moments

“Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

— Walt Whitman

#compassion #sympathy #spirituality

“The real does not die the unreal never lived”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #reality #death

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you it is strictly speaking no longer the ego”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #ego #awareness

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God”

— Brother Lawrence

#spirituality #service #small things

“My religion is very simple my religion is kindness”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #kindness #religion

“Whatever the present moment contains accept it as if you had chosen it”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #acceptance #choice

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #abundance #gratitude

“Silence is the true teaching it is the perfect teaching it works only for the advanced seeker”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #silence #teaching

“If you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #impact #humor

“Since everything is but an apparition having nothing to do with good or bad rest in equanimity”

— Longchenpa

#spirituality #equanimity #appearances

“He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-mastery #power

“Not all of me shall die; that which is best in me shall survive my death.”

— Ovid

#spirituality #immortality #legacy

“There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart.”

— Chandogya Upanishad

#spirituality #inner light #heart

“Raise your words not your voice it is rain that grows flowers not thunder”

— Rumi

#spirituality #words #gentleness

“In the end only three things matter how much you loved how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go”

— Buddha

#spirituality #love #grace

“The wound is the place where the light enters you”

— Rumi

#spirituality #healing #light

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #art #self

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-knowledge #wisdom

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #gratitude #prayer

“Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache you wont find it but when your heart is ready peace will come looking for you”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #peace #readiness

“The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#spirit #self #endurance

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”

— Jesus of Nazareth

#light #focus #spirituality

“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #engagement #presence

“All the ups and downs are grace in disguise opportunities to wake up”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #grace #awakening

“All of the body is in the mind but not all of the mind is in the body”

— Swami Rama

#spirituality #mind #body

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”

— Anais Nin

#spirituality #growth #blossoming

“There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophies my brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #simplicity #kindness

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #love #acceptance

“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #inner #awakening

“You are not your mind you are the awareness behind the thoughts”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #awareness #mind

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #universe

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have make the now the primary focus of your life”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #present #focus

“Do not follow the ideas of others but learn to listen to the voice within yourself”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #inner voice #independence

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field I will meet you there”

— Rumi

#spirituality #field #beyond

“Let the mind come as it wants do not go with it the mind will settle by itself”

— Papaji

#spirituality #mind #stillness

“Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”

— Francis of Assisi

#spirituality #peace #meditation

“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #compassion #suffering

“Be strong then and enter into your own body there you have a solid place for your feet”

— Kabir

#spirituality #body #grounding

“Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #perception #universe

“Hidden nature is secret God”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #nature #God

“My actions are my only true belongings I cannot escape the consequences of my actions”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #actions #karma

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #play #suffering

“The world out there is a reflection of who you are inside”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #reflection #world

“You cannot always control what goes on outside but you can always control what goes on inside”

— Wayne Dyer

#spirituality #control #inner

“There is no path to happiness happiness is the path”

— Buddha

#spirituality #happiness #path

“These pains you feel are messengers listen to them”

— Rumi

#spirituality #pain #messages

“Travel light live light spread the light be the light”

— Yogi Bhajan

#spirituality #light #simplicity

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt”

— Anthony de Mello

#spirituality #doubt #intelligence

“You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop”

— Mooji

#spirituality #ocean #wholeness

“An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #practice #theory

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

— Kahlil Gibran

#spirituality #daily life #wholeness

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes dont resist them that only creates sorrow”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #change #acceptance

“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we are so used to them we call them ordinary things.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

#spirituality #wonder #miracles

“Your unborn mind is the buddha mind and the buddha mind is unborn and marvelously illuminating”

— Bankei

#spirituality #unborn mind #buddha

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #thoughts #happiness

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #happiness #balance

“Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts this is the secret of success”

— Swami Sivananda

#spirituality #devotion #action

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #life #flow

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #experience #evolution

“To find a buddha all you have to do is see your nature”

— Bodhidharma

#spirituality #nature #buddha

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations.”

— Patanjali

#spirituality #purpose #transcendence

“In a conflict between the heart and the brain follow your heart”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #heart #intuition

“The wave does not need to die to become water she is already water”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #wave #water

“In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name.”

— Walt Whitman

#spirituality #God #divinity

“In a world dedicated to distraction silence and stillness terrify us”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #silence #distraction

“The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.”

— Anthony the Great

#spirituality #prayer #contemplation

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #self #paradox

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

#perception #discovery #awareness

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #clarity #patience

“The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God.”

— Unknown

#spirituality #action #devotion

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #change #space

“All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop”

— Kabir

#spirituality #ocean #merge

“The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.”

— B.K.S. Iyengar

#body #soul #purity

“If you are peaceful then you will radiate that peace to others”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #peace #radiation

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #self-awareness #awakening

“The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #journey #love

“A fish cannot drown in water a bird does not fall in air”

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#spirituality #nature #belonging

“Once you realize that all comes from within that the world you see is what you yourself have projected you will stop looking elsewhere”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #projection #inner world

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #inner life #stillness

“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering idiots are always dead sure”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #intelligence #wonder

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #morning #gratitude

“The time of business does not differ from the time of prayer”

— Brother Lawrence

#spirituality #prayer #daily life

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.”

— Heraclitus

#spirituality #soul #thoughts

“You give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give”

— Kahlil Gibran

#spirituality #giving #self

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”

— Emily Dickinson

#spirituality #openness #soul

“Understanding means throwing away your knowledge if we want to understand we must stop clinging to conclusions”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #understanding #openness

“Be kind whenever possible and it is always possible”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #kindness #practice

“Do not seek illumination unless you seek it as a person whose hair is on fire seeks a pond”

— Sri Ramakrishna

#spirituality #urgency #seeking

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#spirituality #identity #human

“The interior of every soul is a vast and unexplored country.”

— Teresa of Ávila

#spirituality #soul #self-discovery

“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #flow

“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”

— Bayazid Bastami

#spirituality #God #self-discovery

“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”

— Rumi

#soul #understanding #intuition

“Minds create the abyss and hearts cross it”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #mind #heart

“No mud no lotus the most beautiful things grow from difficulty”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #difficulty #beauty

“God breaks the heart again and again until it stays open”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #heart #openness

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”

— Rumi

#soul #longing #light

“You cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surf”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #acceptance #skill

“The river that flows in you also flows in me”

— Kabir

#spirituality #unity #river

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #kindness #connection

“Almost everything works again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you”

— Teresa of Avila

#spirituality #rest #renewal

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition.”

— Rumi

#spirituality #wonder #humility

“Love is the bridge between you and everything”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #bridge

“When you do something you should burn yourself up completely like a good bonfire leaving no trace of yourself”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #wholeness #devotion

“All life is yoga every moment can be used for spiritual growth”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #yoga #life

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #choice #freedom

“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods.”

— Pythagoras

#self-knowledge #universe #wisdom

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #suffering #letting go

“What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #liberation #identity

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #becoming #authenticity

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #beginners mind #renewal

“To be beautiful means to be yourself you dont need to be accepted by others you need to accept yourself”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #beauty #self-acceptance

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is an equal partnership”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #compassion #equality

“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you cant see how it is”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #desire #seeing

“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go”

— Mooji

#spirituality #letting go #simplicity

“The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #presence #mindfulness

“In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street.”

— Walt Whitman

#God #humanity #sacred

“The next message you need is always right where you are”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #messages #here

“Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I know, would have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to bind me in all cases whatsoever to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?”

— Thomas Paine

#spirituality #conscience #moral courage

“Be content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize nothing is lacking the whole world belongs to you”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #contentment #abundance

“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #letting go #potential

“We seldom realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #thoughts #collective

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #faith #heart

“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated life can become”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #simplicity #life

“Where there is ruin there is hope for a treasure”

— Rumi

#spirituality #ruin #treasure

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #strength #sin

“The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy not when you are seeking it”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #joy #expression

“In this universe it is love that binds everything together”

— Amma

#spirituality #love #universe

“Stop acting so small you are the universe in ecstatic motion”

— Rumi

#spirituality #greatness #universe

“God is at home it is we who have gone out for a walk”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #home #God

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love”

— Rumi

#spirituality #love #calling

“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #stillness #chaos

“To study the self is to forget the self to forget the self is to be enlightened by all things”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #self #enlightenment

“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”

— Rumi

#spirituality #seeking #awakening

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #beauty #moment

“The mind creates the abyss the heart crosses it with a bridge of love”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #heart #love

“Every great change is preceded by chaos”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #change #chaos

“A perception sudden as blinking that subject and object are one will lead to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #unity #perception

“What a person takes in by contemplation they must pour out in love”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #contemplation #love

“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #nature #patience

“To know yourself as the being underneath the thinker is freedom”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #being #freedom

“Smile breathe and go slowly”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #peace #simplicity

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”

— Unknown

#spirituality #mindfulness #simplicity

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

#stillness #peace #chaos

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#spirituality #body #soul

“The only thing that stands between you and your wellbeing is a simple fact you have allowed your thoughts and emotions to take instruction from the outside”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #wellbeing #inner

“Compassion is the foundation of everything positive everything good that you want to bring into the world”

— Amma

#spirituality #compassion #foundation

“Enlightenment is ego falling away every moment you just have to keep your eye on the ball”

— Chogyam Trungpa

#spirituality #enlightenment #ego

“The whole point of the spiritual path is to wake up out of the dream of samsara”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #awakening #samsara

“The meaning of life is just to be alive it is so plain and so obvious and so simple”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #meaning #aliveness

“A flower falls even though we love it a weed grows even though we do not love it”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #acceptance #nature

“The lamps are different but the light is the same”

— Rumi

#spirituality #unity #light

“Of all that God has shown me I can speak just the smallest word”

— Mechthild of Magdeburg

#spirituality #mystery #expression

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#spirituality #society #health

“Always bear this in mind everything is in Gods hands and you do what needs to be done”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #surrender #action

“The narrow gate is not found through the intellect alone but through the intention of the heart.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

#spirituality #heart #intention

“The spirit desires to remain with its body, because without the organic instruments of that body it can neither act nor feel anything.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

#spirituality #body #spirit

“We are already one but we imagine that we are not”

— Thomas Merton

#spirituality #unity #oneness

“If you let go a little you will have a little peace if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #letting go #peace

“The essence of mind is brilliant clarity and it is aware”

— Tulku Urgyen

#spirituality #mind #clarity

“When you are unborn you see things as they are without trying to judge them”

— Bankei

#spirituality #perception #non-judgment

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #purpose #humility

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”

— Marianne Williamson

#spirituality #power #fear

“The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.”

— Thomas Fuller

#spirituality #soul #love

“Silence is the language of God all else is poor translation”

— Rumi

#spirituality #silence #God

“The sun shines down and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

#spirituality #reflection #unity

“You are the sky everything else is just weather”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #sky #identity

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #lessons #persistence

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #tao #mystery

“If you love somebody let them go for if they return they were always yours”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #love #freedom

“You are not a drop in the ocean you are the entire ocean in a drop”

— Rumi

#spirituality #ocean #wholeness

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently as if it is the axis on which the world turns”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #tea #mindfulness

“Some people look for a beautiful place others make a place beautiful”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #beauty #creation

“The quieter you become the more you can hear”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #silence #listening

“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #progress #concentration

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #vision #heart

“When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

— Gautama Buddha

#spirituality #enlightenment #joy

“To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #stillness #universe

“Courage is not the absence of fear it is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it”

— Osho

#spirituality #courage #fear

“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me”

— Hafiz

#spirituality #generosity #sun

“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #fear #truth

“Arise awake and stop not until the goal is reached”

— Swami Vivekananda

#spirituality #awakening #persistence

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you unfold your own myth”

— Rumi

#spirituality #myth #authenticity

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

— John Milton

#spirituality #mind #perception

“Peace comes from within do not seek it without”

— Buddha

#spirituality #peace #within

“The world is illusory Brahman alone is real Brahman is the world”

— Shankara

#spirituality #reality #brahman

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#spirituality #inner strength #self

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”

— Carl Jung

#spirituality #mirror #self-knowledge

“Three things cannot be long hidden the sun the moon and the truth”

— Buddha

#spirituality #truth #revelation

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

— Confucius

#heaven #unity #God

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #present #planning

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”

— Kahlil Gibran

#spirituality #pain #understanding

“No matter what is happening no matter what is going on around you your mind can be cool and at ease”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #equanimity #mind

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #change #flow

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself”

— Alan Watts

#spirituality #universe #self

“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond”

— Rumi

#spirituality #gratitude #guides

“Since you are not sick do not go looking for a doctor”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #wholeness #seeking

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#spirituality #failure #seeds

“The soul walks upon all paths the soul does not grow on a single line”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #soul #paths

“Truth is one paths are many”

— Swami Satchidananda

#spirituality #truth #paths

“A calm mind is good for our physical health but it also helps us see things more clearly”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #calm #clarity

“The everyday practice is simply to develop complete acceptance of all situations”

— Dilgo Khyentse

#spirituality #acceptance #practice

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and to help others find happiness”

— Dalai Lama

#spirituality #purpose #happiness

“Every natural action is graceful when it is performed in the presence of the soul.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#soul #presence #grace

“The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body mind and energies”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #life quality #management

“Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside.”

— Augustine of Hippo

#spirituality #beauty #awakening

“Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes you will be fine”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #resilience #self

“Love is our true essence it has no limitations”

— Mata Amritanandamayi

#spirituality #love #essence

“If you resist change you resist life”

— Sadhguru

#spirituality #change #resistance

“The nature of mind is like the sun behind the clouds always shining always present”

— Tulku Urgyen

#spirituality #mind nature #sun

“The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.”

— Plutarch

#gratitude #worship #joy

“Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive at your destination”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #patience #haste

“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”

— John of the Cross

#spirituality #detachment #freedom

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do is to remain ignorant”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #ignorance #harm

“Because you are alive everything is possible”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #life #possibility

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#spirituality #nature #God

“What you seek is seeking you”

— Rumi

#spirituality #seeking #destiny

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

— Lao Tzu

#Tao #mystery #spirituality

“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things”

— Dogen Zenji

#spirituality #enlightenment #intimacy

“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not in the clefts of the mountains is there known a spot where, having entered, death could overcome one.”

— Dhammapada

#mortality #acceptance #impermanence

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it”

— Eckhart Tolle

#spirituality #thoughts #unhappiness

“Crave for a thing you will get it renounce the craving the object will follow you by itself”

— Swami Sivananda

#spirituality #renunciation #abundance

“The supreme calling of every human being is to aspire to self-realization”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #calling #self-realization

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing love tells me I am everything between the two my life flows”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #wisdom #love

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #dragons #courage

“What the soul sees and has experienced that it knows the rest is appearance knowledge and prejudice”

— Sri Aurobindo

#spirituality #soul #experience

“You were born with wings why prefer to crawl through life”

— Rumi

#spirituality #potential #wings

“Love is the essence of all religion mysticism and philosophy”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#spirituality #love #essence

“The greatest achievement is selflessness”

— Atisha

#spirituality #selflessness #achievement

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #tenderness #strength

“Who is it that loves and who that suffers it is the Lord alone”

— Anandamayi Ma

#spirituality #love #suffering

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion and where it isnt that is where my work lies”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #love #work

“There is neither creation nor destruction neither destiny nor free will neither path nor achievement this is the final truth”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #truth #beyond

“The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go”

— Mooji

#spirituality #meditation #letting go

“The act of meditation is being spacious and allowing thoughts to dissolve on their own”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #meditation #spaciousness

“We do not need more knowledge we need more wisdom and wisdom comes from our own experience”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #wisdom #experience

“Do not try to become anything let the mind be free from all grasping”

— Ajahn Chah

#spirituality #freedom #non-grasping

“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #depth #inner life

“Step into the fire of self-discovery this fire will not burn you it will only burn what you are not”

— Mooji

#spirituality #self-discovery #fire

“The bad news is you are falling through the air the good news is there is no ground”

— Chogyam Trungpa

#spirituality #groundlessness #freedom

“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”

— Marcus Aurelius

#spirituality #happiness #thinking

“People neglect the root and seek the branches”

— Huang Po

#spirituality #root #essence

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts”

— Khalil Gibran

#spirituality #silence #peace

“Be realistic plan for a miracle”

— Osho

#spirituality #miracles #planning

“Experience life in all possible ways good and bad bitter and sweet dark and light summer and winter”

— Osho

#spirituality #experience #wholeness

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

— Aristotle

#self-knowledge #wisdom #philosophy

“Brahman is the only truth the world is illusion the self is ultimately Brahman”

— Shankara

#spirituality #truth #illusion

“The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. And the outward work can never be great or even good if the inward one is puny or of little worth.”

— Meister Eckhart

#spirituality #inner life #work

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#spirituality #peace #mindfulness

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.”

— Deng Ming-Dao

#peace #influence #nature

“Silence is a source of great strength for the spiritual seeker”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #silence #strength

“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#spirituality #feelings #persistence

“The mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.”

— Vyasa

#mind #discipline #struggle

“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”

— Julian of Norwich

#spirituality #trust #wellbeing

“Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world”

— Ramana Maharshi

#spirituality #self-realization #service

“It is always the false that makes you suffer the false desires and fears the false values and ideas”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

#spirituality #false #suffering

“Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom”

— Lao Tzu

#spirituality #self-knowledge #wisdom

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit”

— Rumi

#spirituality #calling #excitement

“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier”

— Adyashanti

#spirituality #enlightenment #destruction

“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #possibility #inner

“Glance at the sun see the moon and the stars gaze at the beauty of earth and be in awe”

— Hildegard of Bingen

#spirituality #awe #nature

“The world is its own magic and the practice of meditation is to see that magic”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #magic #meditation

“In the beginners mind there are many possibilities in the experts mind there are few”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #beginners mind #openness

“I am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within”

— Rumi

#spirituality #soul #identity

“Where there is love there is no effort”

— Amma

#spirituality #love #effortlessness

“The prayer of the heart is the source of all good, refreshing the soul as if it were a garden.”

— Gregory of Sinai

#prayer #heart #soul

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love”

— Osho

#spirituality #solitude #love

“Wherever you are you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see”

— Shunryu Suzuki

#spirituality #oneness #nature

“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain acknowledge your pain and remain vulnerable”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#spirituality #pain #vulnerability

“The point is not to become a buddhist the point is to become a buddha”

— Tenzin Palmo

#spirituality #becoming #practice

“When the sun of devotion shines the snow of concepts melts”

— Dilgo Khyentse

#spirituality #devotion #concepts

“You yourself must strive the Buddhas only point the way”

— Buddha

#spirituality #effort #self-reliance

“Feelings are just visitors let them come and go”

— Mooji

#spirituality #feelings #impermanence

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask yourself do I want to be a prisoner of the past”

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #freedom #reaction

“We are all just walking each other home”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #companionship #journey

“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”

— Rumi

#ego #surrender #transformation

“To be fully alive and fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”

— Pema Chodron

#spirituality #aliveness #awakening

“In the gap between thoughts non-conceptual wisdom shines continuously”

— Milarepa

#spirituality #wisdom #gaps

“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes within the souls of people”

— Black Elk

#spirituality #peace #soul

“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise”

— Ram Dass

#spirituality #suffering #wisdom

“The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#spirituality #engagement #world

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