#spiritual

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation. ↗

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

#hindu #inspirational #religious #spirituality #equality

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#spiritual-growth #inspirational

If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid. ↗

— Nivedita

#equality

If you are interested in equality at all costs, you should never have gone looking for your power in the first place. Holding authority with integrity is more important than making others feel good. ↗

— Anne Hill

#power #spirituality #equality

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too! ↗

— Steve Goodier

#joy #spirituality #experience

Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text. ↗

— David Eagleman

#religion #science #science-vs-religion #spirituality #experience

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#inner-peace #inspirational #jim-mcdonald #spiritual #student-of-experience

Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#spirituality #experience

The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before". ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#psychology-spirituality #experience