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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
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Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived.
You are standing on the goal. Don’t ask about the path. ~Osho
It is a pathless path because it’s unique to each seeker and keeps changing as
the journey unfolds. Even more essentially, it isn’t really a path at all, because
there’s nowhere to go and nothing to discover; everything you need to know
and be is right here and now–indeed it is the very here and now that you are.
~Stephan Bodian
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on
them. ~Kahlil Gibran
The journey to enlightenment involves shedding, not collecting. It’s a
continual process of opening and surrender, like taking off layer after layer of
clothes, until we’re completely naked with nothing to hide. But we can’t just
pretend, making a big display of disrobing, then putting everything back on
when no one’s looking. Our surrender has to be genuine. ~Pema Chodron
The spiritual process is not about moving away from life. It is to use
everything in life not to entangle yourself but to liberate yourself. ~Jaggi
Vasudev
All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself. ~Eileen Caddy
The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which
once realised makes all movements full of meaning and joy. ~Rabindranath
Tagore
Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the
silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more
we become capable of singing that great song. ~David Steindl-Rast
Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.
~unknown
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being,
there is no such distinction. ~Lao Tzu
In order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself,
you must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure.
~Adyashanti
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual
power, is this: What or who am I? ~Adyashanti
Even if you are without means continue your search; on the way to Him, what
need is there of means? ~Rumi
Turn back from outer, set your eyes within. ~Rumi
Every question I ask is about you.
Every step I take is toward you.
~Rumi
The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or
regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your
truth. ~Ram Dass
We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will
be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. ~T. S.
Eliot
For behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a
portal, or a window opening on something more than itself. ~Antoine de St.
Exupery
God has no religion. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop
running away and you will be found. ~Lao Tzu
Wanderer, your footsteps are
the road, and nothing more,
Wanderer, there is no road,
the road is made by walking.
By walking one makes the road,
and upon glancing behind
one sees the path…
~Antonio Machado
Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.
~Martin Buber
I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to
love the questions themselves. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Disillusionment with yourself must precede enlightenment. ~Vernon Howard
You’ve been walking in circles,
Searching. Don’t drink by
the water’s edge. Throw
yourself in. Become the water.
Only then will your thirst end.
~Jeanette Berson
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ~Henry
David Thoreau
You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself. ~Hafiz
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.
You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
~Osho
seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here.
~e. e. cummings
And I saw the river
Over which every soul must pass
To reach the kingdom of heaven
And the name of the river was suffering–
And I saw the boat
Which carries souls across the river
And the name of that boat was Love.
~St. John of the Cross
The world’s thy ship and not thy home. ~St. Therese de Lisieux
Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. Be
faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ~Mother
Theresa
It is only when we realize that is life is taking us nowhere that it begins to
have meaning. ~P. D. Ouspensky
Everything depends on your readiness and willingness to let go into the
Unknown, and live from that mysterious and precious condition. ~Adyashanti
Wherever you are is the entry point. ~Kabir
Watching someone else eating will not satisfy you hunger; the spiritual
experiences of others will not satisfy your yearning. ~Sufi proverb
Take a step away from yourself—and behold—the Path! ~Abu Sa’id Ibn Abi’l
Khayr
Your own heart is your guru. ~Swami Shivananda
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find
that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your
bathtub. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in
dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. ~Carols Castaneda
The moment you surrender to love and allow it to lead you to exactly where
you soul wants to go, you will have no difficulty. ~Neale Donald Walsh
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are
feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such
moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our
ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. ~M. Scott Peck
The next message you need is always right where you are. ~Ram Dass
All the way to heaven is heaven. ~St. Catherine of Siena
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
~St. Francis of Assisi
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not
negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while
relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for
awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in
letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was
never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us. ~Jack
Kornfield
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in
having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in
silence. ~Byron Katie
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long
intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you
need no other guide. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions,
preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with
the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come
that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the
pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a
memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers. ~Peter Matthiessen
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!
~Ram Dass
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that
it is God who is shaking them. ~unknown
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit
or further away from it. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. ~Hsin Hsin Ming
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of
that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours. ~Adyashanti
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to
find it? ~Dogen
What you are looking for is what is looking. ~St. Francis of Assisi
There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping.
At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes
thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what
you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop
what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again.
Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you
cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.
~Gary Zukav
An older student came to Otis and said, “I have been to see a great number of
teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been
celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up
everything I was asked to give up and I have suffered, but I have not been
enlightened. What should I do?” Otis replied, “Give up suffering.” ~Camden
Benares
Spirituality is seeded, germinates, sprouts and blossoms in the mundane. It is
to be found and nurtured in the smallest of daily activities. ~ Thomas Moore
My boat strikes something deep.
At first sounds of silence, waves.
Nothing has happened;
Or perhaps everything has happened.
And I am sitting in my new life.
~Rumi
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the
question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. ~Pierre Abelard
Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood,
rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a
monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water. ~Shoitsu
Our hearts are restless, O God, and they cannot rest until they rest in you. ~St.
Augustine of Hippo
The Wayless Way, where the Sons of God lose themselves and, at the same
time, find themselves. ~Meister Eckhart
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not
negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while
relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for
awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in
letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was
never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us. ~Jack
Kornfield
Let the five senses and the mind they serve become still. Let awareness itself
cease all activity and become watchful. Then you have begun your journey to
the highest path. ~Katha Upanishad
You cannot travel on the path before you have become the Path itself.
~Buddha
Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please,
observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never
come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness. ~Sankara
If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight, will
illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.
Silence will unite you to God. ~Thomas Merton
You may read or discuss scripture
As much as you like.
But until you forget everything,
You will never live in your heart.
~Ashtavakra Gita 16:1
Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes
the abstractness out of spirituality. That’s the opportunity of real spirituality:
to be in service to the silence of the heart. ~Adyashanti
It’s a pathless path because it’s unique to each seeker and keeps changing as
the journey unfolds. Even more essentially, it isn’t really a path at all, because
there’s nowhere to go and nothing to discover; everything you need to know
and be is right here and now–indeed, it is the very here and now that you are.
~Stephan Bodian
Your mind must become one. Do not try to understand with your ears but with
your ears. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul. ~Chuang Tzu
You must find your own way. Unless you find it yourself, it will not be your
own way and it will take you nowhere. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a
raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own
way, meandering there, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the
crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you…
~Sheng-Yen
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go. ~Joseph Campbell
Light in the darkness is the central paradox in any journey. ~Marion
Woodman
There is a need within the soul of man
The splendours of the surface never sate.
~Aurobindo Ghose
Looking ahead the way is long.
Looking back it is short.
If you don’t go within, you go without.
The beauty of the Way is that there is no Way.
~Lao Tzu
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the
heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage
and chatter. ~John Muir
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides
us from truth. ~Kahlil Gibran
When you find the way
others will find you.
Passing by on the road
they will be drawn to your door.
The way that cannot be heard
will be echoed in your voice.
The way that cannot be seen
will be reflected in your eyes.
~Lao Tzu
