CHOICE
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"Each of you can be a pure image [ of God]. You become purer as your love grows, and your love grows as you choose to love. You decide."
The Light of Love
(Patricia Devlin)
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"We choose. We choose what carries energy in our lives. We choose what we pay attention to. We choose what mental and emotional impulses and responses drive us."
Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture
(Christina Baldwin)
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"The day is not far distant when humanity will realise that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"God has given us the freedom to think what we choose and the creative capacity to bring forth worlds accordingly. What we think, we experience." Marianne Williamson, Foreword
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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"We choose our lives, we make them, we cocreate them, we give birth to them by the 'inward' choices we make." Matthew Fox
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"Men and women have the choice as to what they will do with this power within them. Shall they exhaust it in the various self-indulgences, both mental and physical, or shall they use it to become creative in the realms of the spirit and higher mind – a force for good? It is this tremendous choice which every human being has to face."
The Finding of the Third Eye
(Vera Stanley Alder)
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"There are one or two ways to respond to the injustice of life. You can whine and complain about the injustice of it all, the fact that I wasn't the privileged one. Or you can see through the eyes of faith that every adverse circumstance is an opportunity to see God work out his ultimate desire for wholeness and reconciliation in your life." Eugene Rivers III, Co-founder of Azusa Christian Community
Genesis: A Living Conversation
(Bill Moyers)
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"We can live in fear, or we can live in love. And every moment, we decide. The greatest power God has given us to change the world is the power to change our thoughts about the world. And as we do, the world transforms."
The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life
(Marianne Williamson)
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"At this cross-roads where we cannot stop and wait because we are pushed forward by life – and obliged to adopt an attitude if we want to go on doing anything whatsoever – what are we going freely to decide?"
The Phenomenon of Man
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"(A) baby put into free-choice situations, with plenty of choice, tends to choose its way toward growth rather than toward regression. In the same way, a plant or an animal selects from the millions of objects in the world those which are 'right' for its nature."
Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences
(Abraham Maslow)
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"Because we can choose our inner feelings and thoughts, we have the possibility of self-control and self-direction. This gives us some control over our environment and our world. Our evolution is now self-induced, through our own decisions and efforts. Although the full development of self-consciousness and choice is not yet apparent, we are capable to some extent of choosing what we wish to express and be and what our world will be."
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"At times it may appear we are chosen by our thoughts or emotions, but this is only because we have permitted the mind or the heart to move without conscious direction, a choice which can be reversed whenever we decide to determine consciously what thoughts will occupy the mind or what feelings will be harbored in the heart." 'Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony', Quest 1984, foreword
Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony
(Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)
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"Jesus replied,…Everyone has the command of his own tongue, to speak both good and bad, let him look to it." The Gospel of Nicodemus, ch. 2, v. 5
The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden
(various)
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"God gives us a realm of responsibility and moral freedom. We must make our choices and live with the consequences. That's how God teaches." Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Founder of Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
Genesis: A Living Conversation
(Bill Moyers)
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"You can always choose to open yourself, in the midst of a thousand graces and setbacks, to the oneness with God that is the reality of all that is real."
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
(James Finley)
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"We get in life that which we focus on. Continual focus on darkness leads us, as individuals and as a society, further into darkness. Focus on the light brings us into the light."
A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"From the perspective of wholeness all space is sacred: it is up to each of us whether or not this is realized. This is the real meaning of RESPONSE-ability." Keith Critchlow, 'Twelve Criteria for Sacred Architecture'
Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science
(Christopher Bamford, editor)
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"Humankind is on the move, emerging from a chain reaction of cause and effect that stretches back for billions of years. Now this species has the power to affect its own evolution by conscious choice….the capacity to be responsible, the will to do right when to do so is required to survive." Anatoly Gromyko and Martin Hellman, 'Breakthrough'
Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony
(V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)
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"As the Christ Light says, we may choose Life and live more abundantly, or we may choose death."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"Because we have free will, we can choose to behave in ways that either enhance or hinder the movement of creation toward perfect completion in the divine."
Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning
(Winifred Gallagher)
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"This is the law from the beginning, that he who would have virtue must choose it." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection'
Alexandrian Christianity
(John E. L. Oulton, editor)
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"We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children." Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American activist
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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"Human individuals possess the momentous power of choosing either selflessness and union with God, or the intensification of separate selfhood."
The Perennial Philosophy
(Aldous Huxley)
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"Our freedom is so much greater than we have comprehended. We can learn to shift from reality to reality, choosing the one that is most relevant to our needs and purposes at the moment and use our new approach…to nourish our being, love, cherish, and garden ourselves and each other, be at home in our universes, and help save ourselves and the planet." Dr. Lawrence LeShan, 'Alternate Realities'
Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality
(Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)
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"We choose the god-like splendor
Of the best-beloved Sun
To inspire us;
May the shining Sun
Brighten your life!" Ramayanna
The Sunfood Diet Success System
(David Wolfe)
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