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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"We need to guard ourselves against fear's deadening effect. We must cast it aside…Let us see through our fears and relinquish them to what is possible beyond them. Allow your fear to be deflated by your hope and your unwillingness to be crippled by its hold."
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"Just as a wave on the ocean is what the ocean is doing, you are what God is doing." Wayne Dyer
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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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"Our souls are interconnected with every other soul in the divine reality."
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"Find what you have a talent for and pursue it into birth."
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"True community includes those we disagree with. Community building, whether on our block or across national or cultural divides, is the great work of our new millennium."
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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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"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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"This much is certain, that once we make up our minds to seek God, he is already seeking us much more eagerly, and he is not going to let anything happen to prevent his purpose." Thomas Keating
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"What we find here is evidence of a cosmic plan, which leads to union with the Divine. We are destined for this high estate of eternal happiness."
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"The soul that walks in love neither rests nor grows tired." St. John of the Cross
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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 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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"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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"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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"Whatever our mission in life, this is our real task: to spread truth, love, and peace. Our world is in desperate need of peace in this age of division and violence. Each one of us has the capacity to live truth, love, and peace heroically, spreading their influence around the world."
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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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"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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"Whatever the Source is, however it is named or imagined, the truth is the same: Our gifts are donated from that originating point. Each interpretive system of spiritual and mystical culture understands this. The crucial point in life is to use these gifts wisely: not to squander them, but to commit them to the benefit of the whole community of life."
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"The Divine flows through all of us."
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"Love calls to us in the homeless, the hungry, the stranger, the prisoner, and the abandoned child, the forgotten elderly, the ill and the dying, the unloved and unwanted. Do you hear its call?"
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"Each person has a mission, a work they must contribute to the whole….To fulfill this task, we need to touch the inner fire that propels us forward, the passion to do good, to serve both the Divine and the human family. We know in the depths of our being that our nature holds our sacred purpose. We only need to be true to it, to pursue it without fail."
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"Gaze into the heart of each creature and kin and behold the Beloved who gazes upon you with love." Sister Georgene Wilson
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"The inner reality, core focus, commitment, and intention of God is love itself."
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"We cannot really die in any permanent way, but are ever called on from one transition to another until we are transformed. Once we know how to be here in the integrity of the moment, we enter the Eternal Now and we know we wil always be."
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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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