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The material universe and the physical body that I experience through my senses are only one aspect of reality. -Deepak Chopra Men become friends when they can share their minds with one another.Anything is better than the company of liars:A real friend will disagree with you openly.
-Hãvamãl
The Angel Gabriel and the carpenter, St Joseph, were instruments of God’s will for Mary. She responded with prompt obedience. If we accept with humility and joy the message of God spoken to us through our superiors, we too, will become pleasing to God and carriers of his love.
- Mother Teresa
What would a person give in return for life?
- Jesus
Whenever you give your attention to is the thing that governs your light. Attention is the key. Your free will lies in the directing of attention.
... if the glory of God comes first with you, and to express His will becomes the rule of your life, then your eye is single and your whole body, or embodiment, will be full of light.
- Emmet Fox
We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because we love ourselves so much.
We don't want to keep paying for the injustice.
- Miguel Ruiz
Fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
Sorrow is better than fear.
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
-Alan Paton
It is true that the mind is restless and difficult to control.
But it can be conquered through regular practice and detachment.
Those who lack self-control will find it difficult to progress in meditation: but those who are self-controlled, striving earnestly through the right means, will attain the goal.
- Krishna
Buddhism encourages us never to reject what is problematic, but rather to become very familiar with it.
-Pema Chödrön
Don't say my hut has nothing to offer:
come and I will share with you
the cool breeze that fills my window.
-Ryõkan
you, with your bruised heart
and defeated mind
who chooses to rise
with vulnerability and tenderness
as your armor
you, with the unbreakable will
to overcome the hurt,
put fear aside
and still love
you are the brave one
-E.G. Cress
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested.
Whoever sees clearly what's diseased in himself
begins to gallop on the way
-Rumi