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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"One of the goals of life is to learn the value of community, of interconnectedness, our oneness in the Divine Reality."
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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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"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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"Each one of us is dependent on others and nature to be. Everything is interdependent….we are intrinsically and fundamentally related to everyone and everything else."
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"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i tradition
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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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"Our journey to God is actually a journey of self-discovery in the Divine."
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"Our souls are interconnected with every other soul in the divine reality."
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"We are only really happy in the long run if we are committed to virtue, allowing our character to be schooled and formed by its precious wisdom. When we are truly in harmony with the Divine, others, nature, and ourselves, we are naturally virtuous and other will know it!"
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"The Divine flows through all of us."
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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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"Failure is not an end but a beginning, because it reveals something that will assist us in moving forward."
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"When one person heals, the rest of the world is deeply affected. We don't heal alone." Diane Cirincione, author
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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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"When our boundaries expand beyond this limited identity, we realize our connection with everything."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The inner reality, core focus, commitment, and intention of God is love itself."
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"Find what you have a talent for and pursue it into birth."
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"No matter what we believe, we are all bound to seek justice, to think and act with genuine kindness, and to have humility of heart."
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"Let us each examine our faith. If it is rooted in love, mercy, kindness, and compassion, we are on the right track."
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"We can respond with love in all the situations of life and practice compassion without counting the cost."
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"If you want to know with immediate and tangible recognition what God is like, examine kindness in yourself and others. It is your own deepest inner nature."
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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,
organized in terms of 39 primary categories. Quotes are randomized and appear in a different way at every click.
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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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