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“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”
― Carl Sagan

“God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.”
― Thomas Merton

“Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.”
― Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

“There is no less holiness at this time- as you are reading this- than there was on the day the Red Sea parted, or that day in the 30th year, in the 4th month, on the 5th day of the month as Ezekiel was a captive by the river Cheban, when the heavens opened and he saw visions of god. There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree at the end of your street than there was under Buddha’s bo tree��. In any instant the sacred may wipe you with its finger. In any instant the bush may flare, your feet may rise, or you may see a bunch of souls in trees.”
― Annie Dillard, For the Time Being: Essays

“Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.”
― Paul Brunton

“You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.”
― Rob Bell, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

“The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science”
― Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Live

“Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us.”
― Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

“I am another you, you are another me.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.”
― Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord

“Bend when you must. Pull when you must. Both are an offering. When you bend, be at peace; when you pull, do so gently.”
― Maureen Moss

“That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.”
― Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Live

“Walking with God isn't instant gratification. It's a process of growth that will lead you to amazing things.”
― Stephan Labossiere

“As much as we might dance around it, or seek to repress our core physicality, it is an essential and unavoidable part of the human experience. It's not that our animal selves lie in contradiction to our angel selves. Our animal selves are literally our stairway to heaven.
Despite his brilliant insights on so many aspects of the human condition, Becker was wrong on this one. Nature doesn't mock us. It unlocks us.”
― Jamie Wheal, Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost its Mind

“Though you might conquer in battle
A thousand times a thousand men,
You're the greatest battle-winner
If you conquer just one - yourself.”
― Dhammapada

“You are a significant, unique, independent, individual soul, who has ventured into this world to expand your awareness of yourself and truth. You are an opportunity for the expansion of consciousness; you are an opportunity for evolution.”
― Lorraine Nilon, Your Insight and Awareness Book: Your life is an expedition to discover the truth of yourself

“Every breath away from the awareness of the present moment is a step away from the Self.”
― Joseph Cyrus

“We cry in the journey of healing because we see ourselves dying”
― Amer Hijjawi

“.“We need to listen to each other deeply and patiently so that we can hear the silence behind our words.”
― Dheeraj Sharma, 15 STRANGERS : CONVERSATIONS THAT MEAN ‘A LIFETIME��

“Just because a person says they are Christian it doesn't mean they are emotionally evolved. Churches are full of spiritually dysfunctional people that stumbled into church because of some wound they received in life from another person. Everyone is at their unique stage of spiritual evolution. Some can ask for forgiveness or forgive others. Then there are some that only believe in the old testament- an eye for an eye. Expect nothing from people that call themselves Christian and you won't be disappointed.”
― Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse

“She thought accepting religious maxims meant abdicating independence and not personally struggling with profound questions. It was like learning chemistry by a book rather than an experiment.”
― Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

“...وقت تھم جاتا ہے جب لمحے خوبصورت ہو جاتے ہیں”
― Abeera Qaiser, Unees Ghante

“Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“As soon as those hands devoluted me to earth, I was thrown out of my grave. Since then I am sitting here, by the side of my grave, and wondering, Was it the body whose satisfaction and survival made me so obsessed ? Was it the same entity for which I strived day and night? For whose entertainment , I wished to change the world order. And now I am seeing it decaying and rotting. I am just trying to search myself out of this decomposed matter.”
― Junaid Raza

“Language is powerful to bring life or death. Make a responsible choice to perfect language with words that uplift and empower life.”
― Premlatha Rajkumar, BE INSPIRED: 365 Inspiring Thoughts

“She must have preached, 'you should show emotions towards the things which mean something to you'.”
― Sheza Khan, Doubt

“Believe that your intuition will give you the answers when you ask yourself questions. Give your question to your intuition rather than trying to think it through or analyze it.”
― Josh King Madrid, JetSet Life Hacks: 33 Life Hacks Millionaires, Athletes, Celebrities, & Geniuses Have In Common

“You are about to embark on the most important journey of your life, and that is to awaken.”
― Ora Nadrich, Time To Awaken

“The foolish New Age masters believe they are very spiritually evolved because they have realized a reality that has been understood by any spiritualist in all ages of humanity. They glimpse a small ray of light and think they have found the eternal source of arcane knowledge, when, in truth, they have only seen the reflection of their own vanity in the mirror of eternity, which has blinded them. The Throne is far beyond the Kingdom and none of those who currently claim to be masters of the immanent will see the truth �� because now, like children, they know in part; they have remained wallowing in small worldly glories, because the source is far beyond what they can even dream of and one cannot advance on the path without giving up literally everything. As long as there is a drop of body, they will not have the spirit, nor will they know the truth. Because, one day, they will see it face to face. It is the narrow path, which only the humble can pass through...”
― Geverson Ampolini