Spirituality
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"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."
Dalai Lama
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples."
Dalai Lama
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
Dalai Lama
"The world does not need more successful people."
Dalai Lama
"Remember that silence is sometimes the best response."
Dalai Lama
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
Dalai Lama
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Dalai Lama
"Silence is sometimes the best answer."
Dalai Lama
"Choose to be optimistic. It feels better."
Dalai Lama
"Intention is the goal. Expectation is the path."
Deepak Chopra
"Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it."
Deepak Chopra
"The way to free yourself from pain is to make peace with the pain."
Deepak Chopra
"Abundance flows naturally to the person who focuses on giving."
Deepak Chopra
"Wealth is a state of mind."
Deepak Chopra
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
Deepak Chopra
"The universe is about a million times bigger than we can perceive."
Deepak Chopra
"You are not your body. You are the consciousness that inhabits your body."
Deepak Chopra
"The most effective way to achieve right relations is to remember you are not here to dominate or control."
Deepak Chopra
"Every experience you have is the result of your past thinking."
Deepak Chopra
"Time and space are illusions created by the thinking mind."
Eckhart Tolle
"You create a good future by creating a good present."
Eckhart Tolle
"To love is to recognize yourself in another."
Eckhart Tolle
"Ego is always defensive, always seeking to protect itself."
Eckhart Tolle
"The mind is a wonderful tool, if it works for you; but if you are dominated by it, it becomes destructive."
Eckhart Tolle
"The present moment is all you ever have."
Eckhart Tolle
"Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now."
Eckhart Tolle
"Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life—and see how life suddenly starts working for you."
Eckhart Tolle
"The moment you completely accept your non-being, your Beingness shines forth."
Eckhart Tolle
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have."
Eckhart Tolle
"The creative mind is unlimited in its potential for innovation and growth."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The goal of human life is to improve ourselves, to evolve, and to gain enlightenment."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Enlightenment is not a state to be achieved; it is a natural state of consciousness."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Yoga is skill in action."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The mind of man is capable of anything."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"The level of consciousness of any nation determines its happiness and progress."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Life is found in the details. The secret is in the small things."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"All problems are created by a lack of transcendental consciousness."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"Happiness is the goal of human life, and the way to achieve it is through Transcendental Meditation."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
"What you seek is seeking you."
Rumi
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
Rumi
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi
"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another."
Rumi
"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
Rumi
"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."
Rumi
"The guest is inside you, and also inside me."
Rumi
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to happen."
Rumi
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
Rumi
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
Rumi
"Consciousness can evolve to higher levels."
Sri Aurobindo
"The divine love is the ultimate reality."
Sri Aurobindo
"Transformation is the ultimate goal of spiritual practice."
Sri Aurobindo
"Man is a bridge between the animal and the divine."
Sri Aurobindo
"Evolution is the manifestation of God in matter."
Sri Aurobindo
"All life is yoga."
Sri Aurobindo
"The goal is to bring the divine into all aspects of life."
Sri Aurobindo
"The integral yoga unites all aspects of being."
Sri Aurobindo
"We are all expressions of the divine consciousness."
Sri Aurobindo
"The divine is everywhere, in all things."
Sri Aurobindo
"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."
Sri Ramakrishna
"Sin is forgiven by tears of repentance."
Sri Ramakrishna
"The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail."
Sri Ramakrishna
"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature."
Sri Ramakrishna
"God can be realized through all paths."
Sri Ramakrishna
"As long as I live, so long do I hope."
Sri Ramakrishna
"Knowledge leads to unity; ignorance to diversity."
Sri Ramakrishna
"God is in all beings and all beings are in God."
Sri Ramakrishna
"The breeze of His grace is always blowing."
Sri Ramakrishna
"Different creeds are but different paths to the same summit."
Sri Ramakrishna
"Help and not fight. Assimilation and not Dissimilation."
Swami Vivekananda
"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
Swami Vivekananda
"All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction."
Swami Vivekananda
"The moment I have realized the worth of my life, I have made it my purpose to serve humanity."
Swami Vivekananda
"They alone live who live for others."
Swami Vivekananda
"Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?"
Swami Vivekananda
"The great truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
Swami Vivekananda
"Arise, awake, and stop not until the goal is reached."
Swami Vivekananda
"The greatest religion is to be true to this nature."
Swami Vivekananda
"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity."
Swami Vivekananda
"The present moment is filled with joy and peace. If you are attentive, you will see it."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The greatest wealth is health."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Drink your tea slowly and reverently."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Every morning, we have twenty-four brand new hours to live."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Breathe, you are alive."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"To take good care of yourself is to take care of everything."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Mindfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you understand, you love. When you love, you want to serve."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."
Thomas Merton
"One of the monastic fathers used to say, 'The nearer we are to God, the nearer we are to each other.'"
Thomas Merton
"Peace comes from knowing that you are loved."
Thomas Merton
"In the end, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything."
Thomas Merton
"We are called to be contemplatives."
Thomas Merton
"Do not depend on the hope of results."
Thomas Merton
"The beginning of the journey back to God is the acknowledgment that you are on the wrong path."
Thomas Merton
"The contemplative life is a life of prayer and solitude."
Thomas Merton
"Contemplation is the highest form of prayer."
Thomas Merton
"The purpose of a monastic community is not productivity or success."
Thomas Merton