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Smile with your whole being

Spiritual Quotes — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:20:05 +0000

If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?…Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding….Smile with your whole being.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Two ways to live your life

Spiritual Quotes — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:28:24 +0000

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.

– Albert Einstein

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Into the deep and dazzling darkness

Spiritual Quotes — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:16:19 +0000

That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

– Gregory of Nyssa

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We have not come here to take prisoners

Spiritual Quotes — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:03:55 +0000

We have not come here to take prisoners
But to surrender ever more deeply
To freedom and joy.

– Hafiz

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Her heart is full of joy with love

Spiritual Quotes — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:02:37 +0000

Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled.
She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within.
She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

– Saint Teresa of Avila

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If vanities don’t hang in my mind

Spiritual Quotes — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:33:46 +0000

There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring,
The magical light of the full moon in autumn;
There is a breeze in summer,
And snow in winter;
And if vanities don’t hang in my mind,
I shall rejoice at any time and place.

– Wu Men

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Happiness is not a reward

Spiritual Quotes — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:02:07 +0000

Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.

– Robert Green Ingersoll

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The rapture of being alive

Spiritual Quotes — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:10:33 +0000

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

– Joseph Campbell

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Outrageously happy

Spiritual Quotes — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:39:09 +0000

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child.

“What do you want him to be when he grows up?” someone asked.

“Outrageously happy,” said the master.

– Anthony de Mello

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Entering into joy

Spiritual Quotes — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:04:18 +0000

Imagine if all the tumult of the body were to quiet down,
along with all our busy thoughts about earth, sea, and air;

if the very world would stop, and the mind cease thinking about itself,
go beyond itself, and be quite still;

if all the fantasies that appear in dreams and imagination would cease,
and there be no speech, no sign:

Imagine if all things that are perishable grew still – for if we listen they are saying,
“We did not make ourselves; he made us who abides forever” – imagine, then,
that they should say this and fall silent, listening to the very voice of him who made them
and not to that of his creation;

so that we should hear not his word through the tongues of men, nor the voice of angels,
nor the clouds’ thunder, nor any symbol, but the very Self which in these things we love,
and go beyond ourselves to attain a flash of that eternal wisdom which abides above all things:

And imagine if that moment were to go on and on,
leaving behind all other sights and sounds but this one vision
which ravishes and absorbs and fixes the beholder in joy;
so that the rest of eternal life were like that moment of illumination which leaves us breathless:

Would this not be what is bidden in the scripture, Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord?

– Saint Augustine

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