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...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy. ↗

— Valerie Ann Worwood

#healing-the-emotiinal-self #mind-body-spirit #life

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#river-of-life #spirituality #life

Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#freedom #life #love #relazation #spirituality

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #existence #intuition #life #love

Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#life #love #meditation #spirituality #trust

Associated with this inner conflict is a tendency to become hypercritical: unhappy souls almost always blame everyone but themselves for their miseries. Shut up within themselves, they are necessarily shut off from all others except to criticize them. Since the essence of sin is opposition to God’s will, it follows that the sin of one individual is bound to oppose any other individual whose will is in harmony with God’s will. This resulting estrangement from one’s fellow man is intensified when one begins to live solely for this world, then the possessions of the neighbor are regarded as something unjustly taken from oneself. Once the material becomes the goal of life, a society of conflicts is born. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#spirituality #life

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy... ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#beliefs #conditioning #cultural-conditioning #culture #eduction

...God is not exempt from emotional pain...One the contrary, God's pain is as infinite as His love. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#spirituality #life

It was a joy, though, to get down into the valley and lose sight of all that open sky space underneath everything and finally, as it got graying five o'clocking, about a hundred yards from the other boys and walking alone, to just pick my way singing and thinking along the little black cruds of a deer trail through the rocks, no call to think or look ahead or worry, just follow the little balls of deer crud with your eyes cast down and enjoy life. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#beliefs #enlightenment #god #peace #religion