' It's Human '...
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
...................... Desiderius Erasmus
' Origins '...
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
........................... Dante Alighieri
' There are Doors '...
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
...................... William Blake
' Reality '...
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
......................... John Keats
' Every Day '...
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
.......................... Emily Dickinson
' Belief '...
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
............................. Edgar Allan Poe
' The Beginning '...
The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror.
.................... Tor Nørretranders
' It Is Remarkable '...
It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality
.................... Alain Aspect
' All Linked Together '...
We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.
............................. David Bohm
' The Greatest Acts '...
Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts
....................... Jiddu Krishnamurti
' The Attitude of Happiness '...
The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.
...................... Ramesh S Balsekar
' It Is your Nature '...
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
.......................... Ramana Maharshi
' The Grace From Source '...
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
............................. Frederick Buechner
' Shakespeare '...
Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.
.......................... Laurence Olivier
' Life is a Struggle '...
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.
........................... Arthur Miller
' Our Whole Being '...
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
............................. Henrik Ibsen
' People should be Beautiful '...
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
........................ Anton Chekhov
' Write '...
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
........................... George Bernard Shaw
' Your Remedy '...
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
You Presume you are a small entity,
But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
You are indeed the evident book,
By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
......................... Ali ibn Abi Talib
' Our Greatest Foes '...
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
.............................. Miguel de Cervantes
' Knowledge and Wisdom '...
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
................................... Michel de Montaigne
' True Happiness '...
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
.......................... Seneca the Younger
' Three Degrees of Knowledge '...
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
................................ Plotinus
' Bethlehem '...
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
.................................... Origen
' Prayer '...
In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.
................................ Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
' Everybody '...
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
.............................. Tom Wolfe
' Seasons and Cycles '...
All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
.................................... Truman Capote
' Truth is Important '...
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
....................................... Babe Paley
' The Education System '...
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
.................................... Harvey Cushing
' Listerine '...
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part might be avoided without excluding the air, by applying as a dressing some material capable of destroying the life of the floating particles. Upon this principle I have based a practice.
................................. Joseph Lister
' Study Nature '...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
............................ Louis Pasteur
' The Nazarine Speaks '...
Love is stirring in the hearts of all.
Through John Smallman...........................
As many of you prepare to celebrate the two thousand and twenty third anniversary of my birth, I want to thank you all for the enormous amplification you are each adding to the Tsunami of Love that is flooding the Earth by daily resetting your intent to be only loving whatever arises in your daily human lives. You have no idea of the power of your intentions as you so positively encourage the flood tide of Love to embrace all of humanity without any exceptions. Love is stirring in the hearts of all, even those who appear to be most deeply incapable of experiencing or expressing It. Truly, you are all, each and every one of you, abundant receptacles of Love which you keep on sharing and extending freely and continuously. You are bringing humanity’s collective awakening, humanity’s collective remembrance of its true nature to fruition. Without you it would not happen. But of course your heavenly Father knew that He could rely on you because you are such stalwart, loving, and dependable expressions of Himself, as you constantly intend to align your wills with His. Your success is therefore divinely assured.
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As you well know, I spent forty days in the desert in a prolonged meditation to find my purpose, and to awaken and know the Love that I am because I am the son of God. Then I spent the rest of my life, a few short years, extending and sharing that Love freely among all those with whom I interacted. That was my purpose, namely to live a life of Love and thus demonstrate how to offer Love to all without exception.
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You may remember that shortly before my death I told my disciples to love one another as I loved them, and now each one of you has chosen to be on Earth at this moment to do likewise, and you are doing so most beautifully. You can have no idea how pleased our heavenly Father is with you all, as you live in form through these difficult but unreal times prior to the awakening, and as you share and extend Love freely and generously, just as I did, and as He would want you to.
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Please let go of any remaining doubts you my have about your worthiness to engage in and successfully complete the personal tasks you each chose to undertake before you incarnated, they are utterly invalid. Accept that you areeach undergoing a state of amnesia that is a necessary aspect of the human lives you are leading. It is not a fault or disability, it is a major aspect of your awakening process. As you continue to move forwards so lovingly – along with taking time out daily to enter and relax within your holy inner sanctuaries – invite Mother/Father/God to fill your hearts with awareness of Her Presence and Her Love for you, and accept and allow yourselves to feel that Presence, because you are completely worthy of enjoying and being uplifted by that experience.
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As you do you will begin to find your memories of who you truly are returning, and any feelings of doubt, unworthiness, or sinfulness will dissolve, being replaced by totally valid feelings of self-acceptance and unconditional love of yourselves. Remember that giving and receiving are one and the same, as you give so you receive, and as you receive so do you give, and the knowing of the oneness of that will embrace you, and you will most positively come to know, without any possibility of doubt, that you and your Father are indeed eternally One, in the most beautiful state of divine Union. Knowing this is what your awakening is giving rise to.
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Love is the infinitely vast field, area, space – there is NO word in any language that can in any way define It – in which God and all of Her divine creations are eternally vibrantly alive and present. As you know – GOD IS! Anything that is not God does not exist. Whatever you may experience as life in your human forms, in however a wonderful or horrific manner it presents itself to you, is unreal. You constructed an unreal and illusory environment in which to experience the impossible, separation from your holy and divine Source.
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But, because God, at the moment of your creation, empowered you with All that She IS, you were able to use that immense power to establish an environment that is totally unreal, and yet it is an environment that nevertheless has utterly convinced you that it is real. So seemingly real that many of your intellectually most brilliant human scientists have succeeded in convincing themselves, and much of humanity, that materialism is the only reality. And from their point of view it does appear limitless and infinitely vast, with life but an aberrant and extremely short-lived event that terminates quite naturally with the death or failure of the human or non human forms in which it appears to exist. They believe that life is unreal, unusual, and unfree, and that therefore that it should be used while it lastsin any manner that appeals to a person’s fear-driven ego consciousness. Insanity run rampant! No wonder you experience disagreements, war, sickness, injury, and death.
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However, many of those brilliant ones are now digging deeper into the physics of the material universe, and discovering that it is vastly more complex than they had thought was possible. They are, often rather unwillingly, coming to the realization that there absolutely has to be a source, a higher power that is guiding and directing it, that it is utterly impossible for it to be a random and meaningless contingency or event that arose, that ‘just happened to happen.’ And some are even choosing, with reluctance, to call ‘it’ God.
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Therefore take heart in the knowing that you are and have been experiencing an illusory state of unreality, and that your awakening is absolutely inevitable. You are divine beings who have fallen very temporarily asleep, and Mother/Father/God is gently nudging you awake so that you once more enjoy the absolute fullness of Life at One in endless Union with Her.
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As you wait hopefully and expectantly for the grand awakening event to fill you all with intense joy, please celebrate my approaching birthday with enormous Love and goodwill for all of humanity, knowing as you do that All are indeed One, and know that God’s divine plan for humanity is precisely on schedule, because all of you are perfectly fulfilling your pre-incarnational intentions to greatly assist humanity to awaken. Your LOVE is bringing about wonders way beyond your ability to conceive of. Trust in Mother/Father/God, and let the Love that you are flow fast, freely, and abundantly as It continues to envelop and embrace everyone without exceptions, and is bringing your awakening to a most magnificent state of radiant fruition.
............................. Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Responsibility '...
We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
...................................... Maimonides
' Knowing how to Love '...
How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon?
.......................... Omar Khayyam
' Diseases '...
There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
.................................. Avicenna
' The Study of Matter '...
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.
................................. Max Planck
' Light Waves '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
......................................... Albert Einstein
' Love '...
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
................................ Wayne Dyer
' Within You '...
Within you is the kingdom of serenity that can create all the prosperity you could ever want.
............................ Wayne Dyer
' Nothing Real '...
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
.......................... Helen Schucman
' Find Within '...
You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek without for what you cannot find within.
............................. Kenneth Wapnick
' All Negativity '...
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
............................... Eckhart Tolle
' Common Fellowship '...
May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.
..................................... Ashoka
' Loss and Betrayal '...
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
........................Gautama the Buddha
'' Rumi and Mary '...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The great medieval Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273), interpreted the birth of Jesus as an allegory of the soul. Rumi was born in Balkh in northern Afghanistan, but his family fled the Mongol invasions and settled in Konya in what is now Turkey. Rumi was a refugee child. Anatolia had been Byzantine territory and in Rumi’s time Konya still had a substantial Greek-speaking Christian population that celebrated Christmas all around him.
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Both the Christian and the Muslim traditions honor Mary the mother of Jesus and it was natural that Rumi should think about the spiritual significance of the Nativity.discussed last year, the Qur’an tells the story of the virgin birth in Chapter 19, entitled “Mary.”
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The Chapter of Mary, 19:16-23, says (my interpretation):
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And mention in the Book Mary, when she withdrew from her family to an eastern place.
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And once remote from them, she hid behind a screen. Then we sent to her our spirit, who took the shape of a well-formed man.
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She said, “I take refuge in the All-Merciful from you, if you are pious.”
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He said, “I am but an angel of your lord, come to bestow on you a son without blemish.”
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She said, “Will I have a son, when no mortal has touched me, and I was not rebellious?”
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He said, “So it is.” He said, “Your Lord says, it is easy for me. We will make him a sign for the people and a mercy from us. The matter has already been decreed.”
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So she bore him, and withdrew with him to a remote place.
And the pangs of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, “I wish I had died before now, and had been forgotten in oblivion.”
Rumi in chapter 5 of his Arabic treatise “In it What is In It,” translated by AJ Arberry as “Discourses of Rumi,” makes this mention of the pangs of childbirth his starting point for considering the spiritual message of this event. I will interpret from the original Arabic text.
' Where is your Heart ? '...
Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
..................................... Carlos Castaneda
' NOW '...
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
................................ Rajneesh
' True to Yourself '...
If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.
............................... Allison DuBois
' Our Own Path '...
We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.
..................................... James Van Praagh
' love and Approval '...
Always speak and think kindly about yourself, because your soul needs your love and approval.
.................................... Doreen Virtue
' Change '...
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
.............................. Wayne Dyer
' Christmas by Rumi '...
There is a morning where presence
comes over you, and you sing
like a rooster in your earth-colored shape.
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Your heart hears and, no longer frantic,
begins to dance. At that moment
soul reaches total emptiness.
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Your heart becomes Mary, miraculously pregnant,
and body, like a two-day-old Jesus,
says wisdom words.
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Now the heart turns to light,
and the body picks up the tempo.
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Where Shams Tabriz walks, the footprints
are musical notes, and holes
you fall through into space.
' The Soul is Life '...
“The soul is life, it never touches death. Death is its illusion, its impression, death comes to something which it holds, not to the soul itself. The soul becomes accustomed to identify itself with the body it adopts, with the environment which surrounds it, with the names by which it is known, with its rank and possessions, which are only the outward signs that belong to the world of illusion. The soul absorbed in its childlike fancies, in things that it values and to which it gives importance, and in the beings to which it attaches itself, blinds itself by the veils of its illusion. Thus it covers its own truth with a thousand veils from its own eyes.”
....................................... Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
' The Supreme Purpose '...
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love.
.............................. Ramakrishna
' Don't depend on Death '...
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.
.............................. Paramahansa Yogananda
' Divine Presence '...
It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.
............................. Mirra Alfassa
' A Still Mind '...
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
................................... Sri Aurobindo
' The Teacher '...
A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them.
........................................ Rabindranath Tagore
' Sufi Islam '...
1. “The death of the heart is ignorance and life of the heart is knowledge.”
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...................Imam Ghazali.
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2. “Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied.”
........ Elif Shafak.
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3. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
........ Rumi.
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4. “If u make a frequent practice of invoking blessing and peace on him, perhaps you will attain the station of witnessing him.”
.................. Imam Al-Sha’rani.
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5. “My Beloved is always with me.”
- Rabia al-Basri.
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6. “Experience shows that the spirit is nothing but awareness. Whoever has greater awareness has greater spirit…When the spirit becomes greater and passes beyond all bounds, the spirits of all things become obedient to it.”
........... Rumi.
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13. “You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”
............ Kamand Kojouri.
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14. “If someone remarks: “What an excellent man you are!” and this pleases you more than his saying, “What a bad man you are!” know that you are still a bad man.”
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....... Sufyan Al Thawri.
' The Greatest Fear '...
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
......................................... Rajneesh
' A Quiet Mind '...
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away
.................................... Sri Aurobindo
' The Greatest Art of Progress '...
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
.................................. Paramahansa Yoganand
' A Great Purpose '...
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.
............................... Patanjali
' Peace '...
Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go.
.................................... Swami Satchidananda
' Music can be Healing '...
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
........................................ Cat Stevens
' The Blessings of Solitude '...
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
.................................... Leonard Cohen
' Forever Young '...
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
...................................... Bob Dylan
' Being Honest '...
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones
................................. John Lennon
' The Illusion of Freedom '...
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
............................................ Frank Zappa
' The Stars '...
Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
..................................... Mikhail Bulgakov
' The Hebrew Mystic '...
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship.
.............................. Josephus the Historian
' War Mongers '...
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
....................................... Tacitus
' Six Mistakes '...
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
..................................... Marcus Tullius Cicero
' Goals '...
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
........................................ Bo Jackson
' Happiness '...
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing,
but in finding what is present.
.............................. Tara Brach
' Mindfulness '...
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.
..................................... Jon Kabat-Zinn
' Losing Heart '...
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.
.......................................... Pema Chodron
' Negative Behaviors '...
People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.
....................................... Byron Katie
' Gratitude '...
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
............................................. Eckhart Tolle
' Stop Acting '...
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
............................................. Wayne Dyer
' Islamic Quotes about Love '...
No religion encourages showing affection, mutual love, and intimacy like Islam. Love in Islam is all encompassing, it promotes healthy and halal relationship between men and women, towards family, friends, and to your neighbor.
Love in Islam can be categorized in a hierarchy with 3 distinct categories.
Love for Allah SWT
Love for his Prophet (may peace be upon him).
Love for others for the sake of Allah. This includes your spouse, friends, family, and strangers.
True love is based in spirituality whereas false love is based on short-term fulfillment. We’ve all experienced extreme happiness when we were excited in purchasing something of intense desire. However, as times passes us by, we become insensitive towards it, whatever it may have been. This is false love. Attraction between men and women based on physical appearance, that is also a short-term experience and false.
In this article, we’ll explore true love based on spirituality. We’ll cover many beautiful Islamic quotes about love from Quran, Hadith, and from famous scholars and poets. By the end you’ll have more knowledge on Islamic viewpoint on love, marriage, and towards life.
Table of Contents
Beautiful Islamic Quotes on Love
Quotes on Love, Life, and Marriage
Islam Quotes For Husband
Love For Allah Quotes
Beautiful Islamic Quotes on Love
Beautiful Islamic Quotes About love Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should not hurt his neighbor and whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should serve his guest generously and whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, should speak what is good or keep silent.” Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 6136 In-book reference: Book 78, Hadith 163
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Anas narrated that the Prophet(s.a.w) said: “None of you believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.” At Tirmidhi Grade : Sahih (Darussalam) English reference: Vol. 4, Book 11, Hadith 2515 Arabic reference : Book 37, Hadith 2705
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Narrated Anas: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself.” Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 13 In-book reference : Book 2, Hadith 6
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Narrated Abdullah: The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Everyone will be with those whom he loves.” Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 6168 In-book reference : Book 78, Hadith 194
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Always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them -Mufti Ismail Menk
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Loves Quotes From Quran
Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess. Indeed, Allah does not like those who are self-deluding and boastful. Quran 4:36
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“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
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“Whoever kills a person [unjustly]…it is as though he has killed all mankind. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved all mankind.” Qur’an 5:32
' Men in Power '...
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
.................................... Boris Pasternak
' Seize the Moment '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
......................................... Leo Tolstoy
' Feast on the Moment '...
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
..................................... Virginia Woolf
' Lighten the Load '...
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
................................. Charles Dickens
' Source of Evil '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
.......................................... Joseph Conrad
' The Bhagavad-Gita '...
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.
.................................... Henry David Thoreau
' Human Mistake '...
“Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?
A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.”
............................... Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
' A Useful Learning '...
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
..................................... Antisthenes
' The Soul of Man '...
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
................................... Pythagoras
' Excellence '...
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
.................................. Aristotle
' All Truths '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
................................. Galileo Galilei
' The Human Body '...
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
................................... Paracelsus
' Unhappiness '...
The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.
............................... Jaggi Vasudev
' Truth cannot be Given '...
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.
................................. Anandmurti Gurumaa
' Beginning of Knowledge '...
Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
................................ A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
' Chanting '...
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.
.................................... Krishna Das
' Good is Good '...
On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.
................................... Deepak Chopra
' Controling the Media '...
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
............................ Jim Morrison
' True Happiness '...
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
...................................... Swami Vivekananda
' The Heart is Temple '...
“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
...................................... Rumi
' Love is the Answer '...
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
................................. Ray Bradbury
' Reading and Writing '...
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
............................................ Kurt Vonnegut
' Honest Minds '...
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.
......................................... Glenn Miller
' Quality of Life '...
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.
................................... Jaggi Vasudev
' The Greatest Fear '...
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
..................................... Rajneesh
' Self-Identification '...
Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.
......................................... Eckhart Tolle
' Happy Thoughts '...
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.
.................................. Deepak Chopra
' Finding Fulfillment '...
When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.
................................... Shakti Gawain
' They call that Peace '...
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
.................................... Tacitus
' Living the Life '...
We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.
.................................... Justin Martyr
' Spiritual Reading '...
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement, who is not given to spiritual reading.
................................. Athanasius of Alexandria
' Your Thoughts '...
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
................................... Marcus Aurelius
' A Most Valuable Trait '...
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
................................... Euripides
' Gratitude '...
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
......................................... Melody Beattie
' Negativity '...
The negative is not of God's creation, It is the creation of
the "False Ego", this is the power of "Free Will" that we have been
given.. negativity is Selfishness, The "Power of One"(God) is
Complete Unselfishness,otherwise known as "Love"...... Reality has
always existed, but we have chosen to ignore Reality and create our
own experience due to the false ego... This is the Fall of Souls that
you have read about... The entry into reality is gained when we have
defeated the false ego, which is the illusion of duality... you can
sit and do nothing because you believe that their is nothing to do
except know Reality.. If this works for you, then continue, but for
the mass of humanity, work is required to "Wake Up" and begin to
abolish the illusions that keep us in darkness,pain, and
duality...................... thomas
' Listen,, O'Drop '...
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange gain the Ocean.....................
Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,
and in the arms of the Sea be secure....................
Who indeed should be so fortunate?..............
An Ocean wooing a drop!.....................
In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once!.................
Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.”...........
....................................... Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
' Buddha Quotes '...
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.".................
"The root of suffering is attachment."..........
"Nothing is forever except change.".................
"Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself."............
"If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone."................
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."....................
"Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.".......................
"May all beings have happy minds.".....................
"True love is born from understanding.".........................
“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.”..........
' Wisdom '...
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.
..................................... Wayne Dyer
' Positive Thoughts '...
Think positive thoughts, intensely. Grow enthusiastic images, boldly. Speak only wonderful words to yourself, constantly. Feel fantastic, NOW! This colors your view of the world. Like a magnet, you attract the resources necessary to manifest the world you desire.
..................................... Mark Victor Hansen
' Life is an Echo '...
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
.................................. Zig Ziglar
' True Happiness '...
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
...................................... Og Mandino
' Christmas by Rumi '...
There is a morning where presence
comes over you, and you sing
like a rooster in your earth-colored shape.
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Your heart hears and, no longer frantic,
begins to dance. At that moment
soul reaches total emptiness.
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Your heart becomes Mary, miraculously pregnant,
and body, like a two-day-old Jesus,
says wisdom words.
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Now the heart turns to light,
and the body picks up the tempo.
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Where Shams Tabriz walks, the footprints
are musical notes, and holes
you fall through into space.
' The Divine Fuel '...
“And when your soul, the flame, the spark, meets with the divine fuel that is so pure and so strong, it results in immense enlightenment: the enlightenment of God. Light upon light, Noorun Alaa Noor.”
....................................... Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
' Fear of Death '...
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
...................................... Martin Heidegger
' Three Stages of Truth '...
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
................................... Arthur Schopenhauer
' Thoughts become Perception '...
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
................................ William James
' The Wise Man '...
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
............................. Umberto Eco
' A Simple Step '...
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
.................................... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
' Wisdom '...
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
.................................... Krista Tippett
' Giving Attention '...
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
..................................... Dallas Willard
' The Real Questions '...
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
..................................... Henri Nouwen
' Live your Life '...
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
..................................... Anthony de Mello
' Noise,, Confusion,, and Conflict '...
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
......................................... Thomas Merton
' Knock... and the Door shall be Opened '...
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
...................................... Alexander Graham Bell
' The Observers '...
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
....................................... Albert Einstein
' Love All '...
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
................................. William Shakespeare
' Life and Love '...
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
..................................... William Wordsworth
' Seeing Ourselves '...
Oh would some power the gift give us,
to see ourselves as others see us!
................................. Robert Burns
' Two Roads '...
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
...................................... Robert Frost
' Responsibility '...
It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
....................................... Sylvia Plath
' Conclusion '...
This World is not Conclusion. A Sequel stands beyond- Invisible, as Music- But positive, as Sound.
.......................................... Emily Dickinson
' Smash the Jug '...
Smash the jug;
you’re the water, not the jug.
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Let go of yourself;
you are the ocean,
not the stream.
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Take a journey beyond your self;
you will see Oneness.
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Leave behind “I” and “you”;
you will see you are Him.
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How long do you continue to travel around the world?
Start your journey from your self,
and travel within.
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Though you have been a seeker for years,
you have never sought Him
in yourself.
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Take a step beyond your self,
and you will find the crown of spiritual poverty
on your head.
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How could you travel towards His District?
You are still a child chasing the bat and the ball.
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Become polished like a mirror
to reflect the Friend;
don’t be a hypocrite with two sides,
like a piece of paper,
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Oh Meghrebi, you will not gain the bounty of His union
until you let go of your self,
…completely.
..............................Meghebi
' Feelings '...
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
...................................... Maya Angelou
' God is Love '...
When God loves you, what can be better than that?
........................... Aretha Franklin
' Your Now '...
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
.......................... Janis Joplin
' The Power of Love '...
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
........................................ Jimi Hendrix
' Forever Young '....
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
........................................... Bob Dylan
' There's only Now '...
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
............................................. Van Morrison
' Your Deepest Fear '...
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
........................ Jim Morrison
' The Greatness of Life '...
The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.
.............................. Gottfried Leibniz
' Three Elements of an Idea '...
Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.
........................................ Charles Sanders Peirce
' The Taste of Words '...
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.
................................... Mikhail Bakhtin
' Schools '...
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
.................................. Michel Foucault
' The General Population '...
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
............................ Noam Chomsky
' The Mark of Wisdom '...
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
.................................. Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Learning '...
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
............................. Vernon Howard
' Kindness '...
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
.................................... Mark Twain
' Know Thyself '...
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
.................................... Laozi
' Finding Peace '...
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
............................ Marvin Gaye
' A Wise Man '...
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
............................. Gian Carlo Menotti
' Your Remedy '...
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
You Presume you are a small entity,
But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
You are indeed the evident book,
By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
.................................... Ali ibn Abi Talib
' I Am Within '...
“There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.
And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?'
The lover replied, 'It is I.'
'Go hence,' returned the voice;
'there is no room within for thee and me.'
Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded,
'Who is there?'
He answered, 'It is thou.'
'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.”
........................................ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Way of the Sufi
' The Soul Flame '...
“And when your soul, the flame, the spark, meets with the divine fuel that is so pure and so strong, it results in immense enlightenment: the enlightenment of God. Light upon light, Noorun Alaa Noor.”
................................ Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
' This is the Way '...
“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
................................ Jalalu'l-din Rumi
' Intelligent People '...
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
...................................... Albert Einstein
' Study with Nature '...
Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.
................................. Antonin Dvorak
' Speak without Fear '...
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
................................ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
' The Beauty of Art '...
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
............................. Al-Farabi
' Natural Science '...
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
............................ Albertus Magnus
' The Divine Embrace '...
For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?
................................. Gregory of Nyssa
' Humility '...
Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.
................................. John Climacus
' Prayer '...
When you begin to read or listen to the Holy Scriptures, pray to God thus: "Lord Jesus Christ, open the ears and eyes of my heart so that I may hear Thy words and understand them, and may fulfill Thy will." Always pray to God like this, that He might illumine your mind and open to you the power of His words. Many, having trusted in their own reason, have turned away into deception.
........................... Ephrem the Syrian
' Seeing Christ '...
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
................................. Saint John Chrysostom
' Death '...
Death is a bridge which expands the passage for a lover to reach his beloved (God).
..................................... Khwaja Gharib Nawaz
' For True Success '...
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
.............................. James Allen
' The Law of Spirit '...
It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.
.................................. Charles Fillmore
' Love is Within '...
Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed. It can be ignored. To the extent that we abandon love we will feel it has abandoned us.
Denying love is our only problem, and embracing it is the only answer.
Through the power of love, we can let go of past history and begin again.
Love heals, forgives, and makes whole.
................................... Ernest Holmes
' Hold Steadfastly '...
Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.
................................ Mary Baker Eddy
' Self-Worth '...
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
................................... Wayne Dyer
' The Deepest Truth '...
The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.
................................... Heinrich Heine
' Consider your Origins '...
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
................................... Dante Alighieri
' Human Minds '...
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth..
.................................. Desiderius Erasmus
' Five Enemies of Peace '...
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
..................................... Petrarch
' My Conscience is Captive '...
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
.................................... Martin Luther
' Rejoice '...
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
..................................... John Calvin
' Rats and People '...
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
......................................... B. F. Skinner
' The Opposite of Courage '...
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
................................... Rollo May
' The Mystery of Despotism '...
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
.................................... Baruch Spinoza
' Reaching Truth '...
Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
.................................... Francis Bacon
' A Wise Man '...
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
...................................... David Hume
' Discovering the Truth '...
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
.................................... Immanuel Kant
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