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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave
to laugh, and too selful to seek other than itself. ~Kahlil Gibran
The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.
~Marilyn Ferguson
When the mind is no longer seeking,
no longer breeding conflict
through its wants and cravings,
when it is silent with understanding,
only then can the immeasurable come into being.
~J. Krishnamurti
The cave that you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek. ~Joseph
Campbell
All spiritual seeking begins with the questions, ‘Who am I? Where did I
come from? Where am I going? What is the true essence of my being?’
~Haridas Chaudhuri
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students
to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse,
encouraging them to create their own. ~Nikos Kazantzakis
We wake, if ever at all, to mystery. ~Annie Dillard
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but
to add colour to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore
One act of surrender,
One change of heart,
One leap of faith,
can change our heart forever.
~Robert Holden
It is a basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in
unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are
in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. ~Jack
Kornfeld
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
~Benjamin Franklin
If the angel deigns to come
it will be because you have convinced
her, not by tears,
but by your humble
resolve to be always beginning;
to be a beginner.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and
staggering, by instantaneous illuminations. Most of them conquer it fragment
by fragment on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a
laborious mosaic. ~Anais Nin
There is simply no place, no location or situation that cannot be used to wake
up to and live all of what and who you are, if you are willing to show up…to
be present in the only place you ever have access to: here. ~Oriah Mountain
Dreamer
If you knew who walks beside you on this path that you have chosen, fear
would be impossible. ~A Course in Miracles
Take the gentle path. ~George Herbert
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. ~Kahlil Gibran
Spiritual attainment is making the Spirit alive, becoming conscious. ~Hazrat
Inayat Khan
What you seek is already within you. You uncover it by shedding all that is
untrue within you. ~Sampo Kaasila
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are
impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and
discover who you are. ~Papaji
In the spiritual quest everything depends on the degree of sincerity and
dedication. ~Sivananda Radha
He who speculates from the shore about the ocean, shall know only its
surface, but he who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to
plunge into it. ~Meher Baba
And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know
the place for the first time. ~T. S. Elliot
When you realize you are, in your essence, the same, beautiful person you
took your teacher to be, you will be free. ~Jim Dreaver
You cannot describe truly what you are but you can enjoy and directly
experience what you are. Therein lies the joy of existence. ~Matt Kahn
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
~Bruce Lee
Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to
come to know that there is nowhere to go. ~Osho
The mist important thing in spiritual life is growth and evolution. We must
have an attitude of appropriating and assimilating the light of truth wherever
we find it. ~Haridas Chaudhuri
The ability to experience and to flow with what is signals the beginning of
the unification of mind, body, and spirit. ~W. Brugh Joy
Everything becomes spiritual once this door of the chamber of the heart is
open. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan
If you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down
the road to meet you. And you will say Yes. ~Marion Woodman
Seekers continue to practice all kinds of self-torture without realizing that
such ‘spiritual practice’ is a reinforcement of the very ego that prevents them
from their natural, free state. ~Ramesh Balsekar
Don’t look for new ways to flee across the chessboard. Listen to hear
checkmate spoken directly to you. ~Rumi
In the gradual approach you are bound to the mind. The mind is under the
illusion that if it changes, alters, stops, etc., it will be absorbed in what is
beyond it. This misconception leads to the most tragic state in which a truth-
seeker can find himself: he has bound himself in his own web, a web of the
most subtle duality. ~Jean Klein
Only the action of non- action, the practice of non-practice, unmotivated non-
volitional functioning, can lead to that recognition or awakening and why any
kind of action, practice or intentional procedure is an insurmountable barrier
to such awakening. ~Wei Wu Wei
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you
nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a
Revelation. ~Eileen Caddy
The awakening process, once begun, develops its own momentum without
effort on your part, and the truth naturally yearns to awaken itself through
you. ~Stephan Bodian
That which you are seeking is always seeking you. ~anonymous sage
Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. Slowly, surely,
the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost
of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine
presence that shines in each of us. ~Eknath Easwaran
In the simple, direct experience of what is, you have an ongoing opportunity
to awaken out of the trance the mind perpetuates to the radiant fullness and
completeness of being. Just keep letting go and surrendering to what is.
~Stephan Bodian
‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold it with effort is inquiry. When
spontaneous and natural, it’s realization. ~Ramana Maharshi
Realization is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought,
‘I have not realized.’ ~Ramana Maharshi
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are
awareness, there’s no need to attain or cultivate it. ~Ramana Maharshi
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and
call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness
where you are one with listening itself. ~Jean Klein
Cultivate a mind that that dwells nowhere. ~Diamond Sutra
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be
the beginning. ~Louis L’Amour
It’s not the answer that enlightens but the question. ~Eugene Ionesco
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. ~Chinese proverb
The path of the enlightened leaves no track–it is like the path of birds in the
sky. ~Buddha
What is the path?’ the Zen master Nan-sen was asked. Everyday life is the
path, he answered. ~Master Nan-Sen
Stop being who you think you are, and be who you are. Let yourself know
what you already know. ~Adyashanti
Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea. ~Wei Wu Wei
In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is
elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. ~Gandhi
The seeker’s silence is the loudest form of prayer. ~Swami Vivekananda
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of god, when you want nothing,
seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme state will come to you
uninvited and unexpected. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand–relax. If you
relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with
it. ~Osho
There is a place which one cannot reach by going anywhere. ~Hazrat Inayat
Khan
Do not seek the truth; simply cease cherishing illusions. ~Zen master Seng-
t’san
Are you ready to lose your world? ~Adyashanti
Full awakening comes when you sincerely look at yourself, deeper than
you’ve imagined, and question everything. ~Adyashanti
All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your
attention inward to the awake silence that you are. ~Adyashanti
And if the earthly no longer knows your name,
whisper to the silent earth: I’m flowing
To the flashing water I say: I am.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
To the questions of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of
your life, you are the only solution. ~Jo Coudert
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. ~William Shakespeare
Detach from whatever you find
inside or outside yourself
and only then will you attain liberation.
~Lin-Chi
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table, and listen.
Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it
will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ~Franz Kafka
God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a
process of subtraction. ~Meister Eckhart
Sail forth–steer for the deep waters only. ~Walt Whitman
Nowhere physically is everywhere spiritually. ~The Cloud of Unknowing
There is one spectacle
grander than the sea,
that is the sky;
there is one spectacle
grander than the sky,
that is the interior of the soul.
~Victor Hugo
Everything and everyone has their own life to live, and we can’t just wipe
away their suffering because our hearts are open. Although we would love to
have everyone wake up and be happy, part of the heartbreak is accepting this
moment, this world, just as it is. ~Adyashanti
I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it. ~Stephen
Wright
A matter that becomes clear cease to concern us. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
I tried to obtain by effort that which I could only obtain by ceasing all effort.
~Madame Guyon
Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard
How can any external revelation help me unless it is verified by internal
experience? ~Meister Eckhart
Don’t go into the jungle looking for the great awakened elephant who is
already at home sleeping on your own hearth. ~Gendun Rinpoche
If you’re attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Wu-Men
Everything is found within the natural state, so do not seek elsewhere.
~Padampa Sangye
Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw
yourself from them. ~Wu-Men
When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. ~Freidrich
Nietzsche
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in
everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday
actions outside of Dharma. ~Dogen
The Path is essentially the finding of the truth which is already within
yourself. ~Imre Vallyon
Indeed the very idea of a spiritual path is a misnomer. After all, how can you
move toward something that, like Divinity, is already by definition
everywhere? ~B. K. S. Iyengar
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a
spiritual being immersed in a human experience. ~Teilhard de Chardin
From my obscurity came forth a light and illuminated my path. ~Kahlil
Gibran
How do you know you are on the Way? When your map no longer serves
you. ~Haven Trevino
The True Path is meeting your eyes even now. Just attend to what is actually
going on–but keep it simple and keep it clear. Just open your wisdom eye and
see. ~Steve Hagen
Everybody’s path is for himself. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan
Do not say “I follow the one path of the Spirit,” but rather “I have found the
Spirit, walking on my path,” for the Spirit walks on all paths. ~Kahlil Gibran
See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it should go.
Do something because it feels right, not because it makes sense. Follow the
spiritual impulse. ~Mary Hayes-Grieco
Transformation is not about making ourselves better but about allowing
ourselves to become who we truly are. ~ Amrit Desai
This teacher is not so much a raft to carry you to enlightenment as it is a fire
to ignite your raft you are now holding on to. ~Adyashanti
There is no path of wisdom, there is no path at all. There is no journey. ~U.
G. Krishnamurti
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or
pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success
became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure. ~Eckhart
Tolle
You’re guided by your highest right, and wherever it takes you is where you
need to go. ~Richard Bach
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night,
and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. ~Jerry
Garcia
Everything one needs to know is available through oneself. That is the only
path. There are no secrets. ~Norman E. Sjoman
Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
My only hope for you as a seeker wishing to find your way back home, is to
burn the map you’re following, and realize what you already are. ~Matt Kahn
When I went beyond myself, the pathway finally opened. ~Mahsati Ganja’i
Life can be difficult; what an opportunity! The Light will disturb us when
we’re comfortable, and comfort us when we’re disturbed. We turn to Spirit
for help when our foundations are shaking, only to find that it is Spirit who is
shaking them. ~Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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