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The spirit is an inward flame;
a lamp the
world blows upon
but never puts out.
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You become spiritually rich when you discover the
riches
of the kingdom within:
when you have a consciousness of
the oneness of all
life; when you experience kinship with nature;
when you
are open to the buoyant spiritual lift of being in tune
with the Infinite; when you know the power of meditation
and prayer.
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Sometimes people get the mistaken notion
that spirituality is a separate
department of life, the
penthouse of our existence. But rightly understood,
it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our
being. Someone
will say, "I come alive when I
listen to music," or "I come to life
when I
garden," or "I come alive when I play
golf." Wherever we
come alive, that is the area
in which we are spiritual. And then we
can say,
"I know at least how one is spiritual in that
area." To be
vital, awake, aware, in all areas
of our lives, is the task that
is never accomplished, but
it remains the goal.
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When we expand our awareness, strengthen
our center, clarify our
purpose, transform our inner
demons, develop our will and
make conscious choices, we
are moving toward
deeper connection with our spiritual
self.
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Real spirituality is not up in the
clouds--it is down on earth,
here and now. Deep
spirituality is seeing God every day in the common
things,
and showing God your appreciation by doing common tasks.
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with
thinking
about God while one is peeling potatoes.
Zen
spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts |
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your
soul. Just let
life be your teacher. It will
nourish you with its inevitable difficulties.
How
will you know whether you are letting life teach you and
nourish you? If your physical senses become more
sensitive
to the beauty you see, the words of love you
hear, and the life
you feel touching your body and soul,
then you know you
have discovered the great value of
misfortune.
Bernie Siegel |
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Our rushing and our busyness create a fog
layer that
encloses us, surrounding us with thicker and
thicker
layers externally and building denser and denser
fog
layers within. Pretty soon, we have lost touch
with
that which guides our lives. We need contact
with
our spirituality to be the people we would like to
be.
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The
essence of who I am--my spiritual identity--never changes.
I am wise, healthy, flexible, and free through the spirit
of God within me. I do not have to conform to trends
and
fads--not the real person who I am. And the real me
never
shrinks from learning new things. An awareness of my
spirituality
is such a confidence booster that I live and learn
while remaining ever true to my spiritual
identity. The real me is a free, spiritual being!
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Spiritual
beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also
know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small
stuff.
The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're
on
earth in the first place: to find that portion of
the world's lost
heart that only you can ransom with your love and
authentic
gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience
Wholeness.
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Spirit, and enlightenment, has to be
something that you are fully aware of
right now.
Something you are already looking at right now.
As I
was receiving these teachings, I thought of the old
puzzles
in the Sunday supplement section of the newspaper,
where there
is a landscape and the caption says, "The
faces of twenty famous
people are hidden in this
landscape. Can you spot them?" The
faces
were maybe Walter Cronkite, John Kennedy, that kind of
thing.
The point is that you are looking right at
the faces. You don't need to
see anything more in
order to be looking at the faces. They are
completely entering your visual field already, you just
don't
recognize them. If you still can't find them,
then somebody
comes along and simply points them out.
It's the same way with Spirit, I
thought. We are all already looking
directly at
Spirit, we just don't recognize it. We have all the
necessary cognition, but not the recognition.
Ken Wilber |
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But
if we are to expand our souls, we need to pay attention
to the life all around us--the people and things and light
and
dark and wind and sun. If you believe that you have
a soul,
it's probably more important for us to focus on developing
our souls--which are immortal--than it is for us to gather
more information and develop our brains. A balance
would
be nice, but most of us don't work at all on our souls,
except for an occasional prayer or book on a religious
topic.
Much of our work on our souls can be accomplished by
working on our abilities to listen--not just hear, to see
and
understand--not just see, to feel in our depths--not just
feel.
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Why
do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye,
while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure
until next year?
Horace |
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When you do things from your soul you
feel a river
moving in you, a joy. When action come from
another section, the feeling disappears.
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Say
not, "I have found the truth," but rather,
"I have
found a truth." Say not, "I have
found the path of
the soul." Say rather, "I have met the
soul walking
upon my path." For the soul walks upon all
paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow
like a reed. The soul unfolds itself,
like a lotus of countless petals.
Khalil
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One
certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to
be
enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I
only know
if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before
I let it get in again to that of any other.
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Byron |
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A
spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation.
Through
silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to
fill
the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves
the masks,
and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness,
compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.
David
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One
of them asked Rabbi Scheersohn starkly, "What are you
good for?"
And the Rabbi said, "I'm not talking about myself,
I'm talking
about what my Master was for me. He was for me the
geologist of the soul. There are great treasures in
the soul:
there's faith, there's love, there's awe, there's wisdom,
all these treasures you can dig, but if you don't know
where to dig, you dig up mud.
But if you want to get to the gold, which is
the awe before God,
and the silver, which is the love, and the diamonds, which
are
the faith, then you have to find the geologist of the soul
who tells
you where to dig. . . . but the digging you have to do
yourself."
Rodger
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God sees the inner spirit stripped of
flesh, skin, and all debris. For
his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed
to flow
from himself into our bodies.
And if you can act the same way, you will rid
yourself of all suffering.
For surely if you are not preoccupied with the body that
encloses you,
you will not trouble yourself about clothes, houses, fame,
and other showy trappings.
Marcus Aurelius |
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We
may speak of love and humility as the true flowers
of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent,
which benefits all those who come near.
Teresa
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