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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"A person's true wealth is the good he does in this world." Muhammad
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"Be a blazing fire of truth, be a beauteous blossom of love, and be a soothing balm of peace." Sufi saying
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"Fear is the easiest thing in the world: it's cheap and widespread. Tyrants and oppressors count on fear's contagion to dominate others. But if one person steps forward and summons courage, his or her courage becomes equally contagious, spreading to others and becoming a movement."
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"All things, including us – especially us – are within God's consciousness. Nothing exists outside this all-encompassing awareness. We exist in God; we move, grow, understand, and act within Divine Awareness. This insight is radical and powerful. It grants us perspective, the strength to follow the course of our lives in its ultimacy."
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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 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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"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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"Nature's wholeness and our intrinsic interconnectedness are primary. Let us pay attention to these vital areas of awareness and commit ourselves to them."
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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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"In each moment the will of God is present, if we can only allow ourselves to discern it."
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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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"If we are going to grow into the fullness of our potential in our spiritual lives, we have to take this path of love, kindness, mercy, compassion, and true empathy. These qualities define us as individuals who have awakened within and care without."
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"Consciousness is immaterial and thus totally indestructible. It is spirit, the eternal self."
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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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"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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"The shape things take is not within your power; the motives of your actions are." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian spiritual master
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"Are you open to this power of grace and love that extends to all sentient beings?"
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"The Divine Presence is everywhere; it only requires us to experience it."
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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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"One instant is eternity; eternity is in the now; When you see through this one instant, you see through the one who sees." Wu-Men, Chinese poet
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"The present is the entry point into the Eternal Now, and this now is the beginning of realizing the Everlasting Now, which people understand by the designation 'eternity'. The more we enter into this now, the more we experience its timeless or eternal properties: wisdom, understanding, compassion, kindness, mercy, sensitivity, integration, and joy."
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"Now we are moving back toward community – because we need it to happen." Gay Luce
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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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"Our souls are interconnected with every other soul in the divine reality."
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"This life is not separate from the eternal."
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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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