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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"The Divine surrounds us on all sides and within the depths of the mind, even in the unconscious and on the frontiers of imagination."
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"Everything happens within the Divine Consciousness."
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"The human body is His sitar. He draws the strings, and out of it comes the music of the inner universe." Kabir
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"The Divine Presence is everywhere; it only requires us to experience it."
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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
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"Learn to open your being to the greater love witnessed in the example of the saints and watch your capacity expand, your compassion grow, and your generosity deepen."
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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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"The greatest accomplishment in life is to be who or what you are, and that is what God wanted you to be when he created you." Abbot Thomas Keating
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"Our journey to God is actually a journey of self-discovery in the Divine."
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"While we often think of eternity as infinite time, it also means timelessness, found only in the present or the now."
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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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"Optimism is a choice. A future can be built on optimism but not on its opposite."
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"That we may outgrow our need for dualism and conflict – that is my prayer."
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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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"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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"God is within us – the universe, others, everything – and we dwell in the Divine's consciousness. Everything is found in our consciousness, and our consciousness subsists in God's."
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"Chaos is infinitely complex order." David Bohm, physicist
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"When our boundaries expand beyond this limited identity, we realize our connection with everything."
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"We are all connected to one another in an essential, intrinsic interdependence. What happens to any one of us has a direct effect on the totality of relationships in the body of humanity."
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"The Divine is the knower in all of us, and we have to align ourselves with it."
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"You always carry within yourself the very thing that you need for the fulfillment of your life purpose." Malidoma Some, African author
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"To love is to think, speak, and act according to the spititual knowledge that we are infinitely loved by God and called to make that love visible in the world." Henri Nouwen
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"Sometimes the right sentence will open us to experiences and world-views we never imagined before. They might appear just when we need them, giving us guidance, courage, vision, and inspiration. They are seeds of wisdom that can provide direction, change, or even a course for transformation."
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"The inner reality, core focus, commitment, and intention of God is love itself."
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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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