THE MYSTIC HOURS, A DAYBOOK OF INTERSPIRITUAL WISDOM & DEVOTION
Wayne Teasdale
In this book, Teasdale provides a powerful look at spiritual wisdom, filled with quotations from all the great mystics and spiritual traditions.
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"Small good works have results we do not foresee; their spiritual effects in the world are often unknown to us, but they are real."
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"We are not actually separate from anyone or anything; we are intimately connected with all. This is a profoundly liberating realization – an overpowering, overarching principle in every tradition."
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"In each moment the will of God is present, if we can only allow ourselves to discern it."
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"If a person lives, thinks, and is motivated by this intention of love, of compassion, kindness, and mercy, then that person is already in God's kingdom."
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"Find what you have a talent for and pursue it into birth."
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"The Divine Presence is everywhere; it only requires us to experience it."
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"The inner nature or essence of each thing or sentient being is united to every other in God and through God. The Divine essence is immanently present in each being and in the laws of the universe. In every atom, electron, star, galaxy, and creature – in the cosmos as a whole – the Divine reality is the immanent ground and transcendent destiny of all beings."
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"The very fact that you desire to be enlightened will give you the power to be enlightened. That is the fuel. Flame it. Fuel it." Marsha Sinetar, author
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"The destiny of humanity…is a process of going back to the source and origin. And that source and origin is a supreme state of independence, a supreme state of consciousness, transcending all vexing limitations, infinite, boundless, eternal, beyond time and space." Swami Chidananda
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"The Divine Reality is doing, or being, each one of us. We are expressions of God's endless creativity. The Divine is happening all the time, and in all corners of reality."
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"The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness." The Dalai Lama
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"The inner reality, core focus, commitment, and intention of God is love itself."
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"God is the self in every person, and with the requisite sensitivity, we can discern this presence shining forth in all things."
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"All we ever do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next." J. D. Salinger
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"God is everywhere, in every being and in every situation, in the cosmos and the natural world, in our loved ones, our friends, just as he is in the stranger, our neighbors, our pets, and very pointedly in the suffering."
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"To know the sweetness of the Infinite within us, that is the cause, the reason, the purpose, the only purpose of our being." Nicholas of Cusa
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"We should work together to set forth a path for humanity that includes everybody. That's the Divine Will for the human family, and the best in each religion acknowledges a similar vision."
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"Love and mercy apply to everybody, no matter how much we want to hate them." Bo Lozoff, author
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"We are all blessed with [a] vast mine of infinite compassion if we open ourselves to our true nature."
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"Every place is the center because God is an infinite, intelligible sphere – totally unlimited and undetermined. Wherever the Divine is, that is the center."
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"The apprehension of the intrinsic interconnectedness of all leads organically to a compassion for all, especially in the concrete existential situations of life as we meet others each day. Simply put, when we realize we are all in this together, our kindness and understanding grows. We are all related; we are all responsible for one another."
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"Life is always a moral question that lies before us sweetly, dependent on our gratitude and constant struggle to cause as little suffering as possible to all and everything around us." Paul Hawken, entrepreneur and environmentalist
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"Are you in touch with your heart's vast nature? If not, find the way there. You are not far from yourself."
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"Attaining harmony with the Source happens naturally when we are in relationship with it, a relationship characterized by the deepest sense of oneness."
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"Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever." Sylvia Boorstein, Buddhist teacher
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We are gathering together the primary insights of spirituality and bringing them together into one place.
This archive contains 11,754 quotes, taken from 635 references,
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We include
- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
- Sources in classical religion as well as voices from new consciousness, esotericism and mysticism
- Choices are guided by the spirit of oneness, love, kindness, inclusion and community
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