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One reason might be that if I hadn't tripped, I'd have been hamburger. When this sort of thing occurs, people often say that there was some power greater than themselves at work. This sounds reasonable. I am just suggesting that it is not necessary to equate "greater than ourselves" with "stretched across the heavenly vault." It could mean "just slightly greater." A cocoon of energy that we carry with us, that is capable, under some conditions, of affecting physicality. Furthermore, I conjecture that the totality of all these souls is what constitutes the Godhead. I mean this in the same sense as the "Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, whereby man, that is everyone together, creates "that great Leviathan called a Commonwealth or State, which is but an artificial man, though of greater statute and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defense it was created." And that leads me to my Insight: God was not there at the beginning of evolution; God is what lies at the end of it. ↗

— Paul Quarrington

#god #soul #spirituality #nature

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#meditation #spirituality #slavery

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga. ↗

— Kripalvanandji

#depression #spirituality #yoga #spiritual

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

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...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#past-and-future #spiritual

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #philosophy #spirituality #spiritual

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fearlessness #morality #spiritual

The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is like a lion with himself, always striving to eradicate that which shadows his inner light, and like a lamb with others, always striving to see their inner light, no matter how dense may be the clouds that hide it. He is the king of the jungle of his world. He hides from no one and seeks escape from nothing. (88) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#ego #evil #inner-light #spiritual-teachers #spirituality

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#woman #energy