Inspirational Quotes

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No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself any more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it, cultivate & nourish it until it offers up its latent Good. In much the same way, the soul is a seed; relationships are its ground; and what grows when all is properly cared for... is unconditional Love.

Part 2

Nature is not a collection of disparate things. It is all part of an unseen circulation: a divine communion of a timeless intelligence creating, discovering, and realizing itself.

Part 3

The awakened heart feels more than emotion. An undivided mind sees more than thought. A sensitive body is touched by more than just its own sensations. Beneath appearances, there is only relationship. Only connection. Only awareness.

Part 4

Here is a great spiritual paradox: none can hope to know the truth of their Divine Individuality until they have realized their all-inclusive similarity with everyone they meet.

The further we move away from the present moment the nearer we come to sorrow.

The reasons we give ourselves for our pain is not the cause of it.

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Whatever we seek -- or find -- outside of awareness itself is not what we’re really looking for. Our eventual, but inevitable discontentment with whatever we find proves this fact: what we truly seek lives in a world above the ceaseless cycle of pleasure and pain, where nothing changes except for what we hope to save ourselves through or from. But, as yet, either we’re unable -- or unwilling -- to see this truth that is the secret corner stone of self-realization.

Part 2

Wherever exists a true need, already exists what has been created to fulfill it.

No true necessity arises without what has been made to answer it... already present.

What we need most deeply awaits only the realization of our deep need for it.

Part 3

Where and when does the journey start for most us, what sets us on our way? We set out to discover not just why we have an almost constant sense of being separate and fearful; feeling -- as we so often do -- of little, to no real consequence... but also in the hope of finding out how to free ourselves from these uninvited, dark companions that accompany us on our journey through life.

So that -- seen or not -- every step taken along that path that promises to lead us to the end of our isolation actually serves to strengthen the mistaken, largely unwanted sense of self taking that journey. And if that's true, then when does this painful journey actually come to an end? Here’s the answer:

Only as we (awaken to) realize the true necessity of (our) life, which is what? To be where we are, as we are, and in silent agreement to be all that we see unfolding around us, and within us... and all in that same moment.

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To see how easily our attention is given away to what limits, or otherwise corrupts us creates -- on the spot -- not only the necessity to reclaim it, but each such shock serves to renew and strengthen our intention to never lose (sight of) it again.

Part 2

In the end, all who rush are in a free fall; where -- with eyes closed shut -- every hurried step brings them closer to the edge of a pit disguised as a pleasure-to-come or, conversely, as a way to escape the fear of some empty or otherwise unwanted moment.

Part 3

When it comes to all matters of a true spiritual nature, necessity is the mother of intention; and, seen or not, intention determines what we give our attention to. And last, but first in many ways, follows this truth: as goes our attention... so comes what we manifest, and experience, accordingly.

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The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but the identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of division it creates.

Part 2

Identifying with the thought or image of any pleasure is the seed of some form of conflict whose suffering is about to flower.

Part 3

The end of seeking begins with being willing to see that desire cannot bring an end to itself.

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The great universal misperception that secretly drives human conflict -- with all of its sorrow and pain -- is that the meaning of life is to be found somewhere outside of our own heart and mind.

Part 2

True higher awareness knows that it is -- and, that it isn't -- whatever it is aware of... and all at the same time.

Part 3

Everyone wants to be illuminated, but few will dare to stand in the light of higher self-awareness, and what it reveals (about them).

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All forms of useless suffering are created in a vain attempt to either acquire what we imagine will make us feel complete, or in the equally vain attempt to escape or otherwise control what we perceive is making us feel incomplete, or somehow inadequate.

Part 2

Comparison is the root of the suffering we try to escape through the choices it compels us to make.

Part 3

The only instrument the unconscious mind has to compare the possibility of any new -- or otherwise challenging -- moment to is the content of its own past, conditioned experience; so that its negativity toward, or summary rejection of that moment is determined by a lower nature that doesn't want to experience (the content of) itself again... which, in return, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Part 4

What is Limitless hides within, and just behind limitation. So anyone who will agree to stand, patiently, within the quiet awareness of any painful sense of inadequacy -- refusing to bow before it -- will be crowned with a new and unimaginable strength.

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Show me the one who governs his or her own thoughts and feelings, and I will show you someone who lives in a world unclouded by worry and fear.

Part 2

There are a thousand different ways to wrap a gift, but there’s only one way to receive the “present”... and that is to be open to what the moment is trying to give you.

Part 1

The possibility of realizing our highest Good is hidden in every unwanted moment of life where -- if we wish to realize the grace that awaits us there -- we are asked for what amounts to an act of Divine obedience: and that is to yield ourselves to whatever we're given to see as true (about us)... without resisting the nature of what we're being shown, let alone to ask the question "why?"

Part 2

Nothing is good or evil, save thinking make it so... No negative reaction is a problem until the questions we're given to ask about how to resolve it turns it into one!

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It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain.

Part 2

Between any negative reaction... and our response (to it), we must find the will to repose. Without being able to enter into the timeless space between what stirs us, and what it stirs within us, what can seem a wise choice is more often than not an act of ignorance yet to be revealed... and still to be paid for!

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It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until we see the parts of us that are secretly clinging to it.

Part 2

Stop looking for certainty, and you'll stop finding uncertainty.