Francis Lucille Books & Quotes

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“If you had been born in a civilization in which the rising sun was called 'my sun,' you would consider it your sun.”

Mind Silence Simplicity Oneness Nonduality Vedanta

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“God sees God everywhere.”

Love God Consciousness Nonduality Vedanta The Divine

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“Let ghosts sleep, don’t wake them up. Celebrate and just get used to celebrating more and more.”

Happiness Joy Mindfulness Bliss Celebration Nonduality Presence Celebrating Life

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“Joy knows itself. As children we didn’t even know the word joy, we were joy.”

Happiness Joy Bliss Nonduality Vedanta Playfulness Childlikeness

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“Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, 'Thank you.”

Grace Gratitude Gift Celebration Thanksgiving Divine Grace Divine Supply

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“If we think there is a problem with the world, we have a problem!”

World Love Acceptance Perspective Positivity Oneness Nonduality

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“When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it.”

Happiness Joy Bliss Nonduality Vedanta Enjoyment Of Life Sat Chit Ananda Childlike Innocence

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“To begin with, it seems like an effort to keep returning to the welcoming presence, but at some point it is so natural that it seems to require an effort to leave it. It feels like home. We no longer feel that we need to be entertained.”

Meditation Oneness Divinity Nonduality True Self Advaita Union Contemplative Prayer Unicity Divine Presence

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“We cannot see how divine the hills and the mountains are, so we want an angel with wings on top of them.”

Greed Simplicity Lust Oneness Bliss Subtle Contentment Peak Experiences Spiritual Experiences Spiritual Materialism

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“Just stick to the ordinary circumstances without labeling them ordinary. Be open to them with no desire to change them in any way. They are, in fact, already magical and miraculous. They are the revelation of the Absolute. The mountains, for instance, are already miracles. We don’t need a little angel on top of the mountain to make it more miraculous, so don’t make one up.”

Mindfulness Nonduality Dharma Gospel Revelation Ordinariness Sacrament Of The Present Moment

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“It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.”

Love Relationships Community Consciousness Oneness Communion Nonduality Advaita Vedanta Gaia

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“Remember when, as a very young baby, you had just been changed and fed and were not tired enough to sleep. What does a baby do in such a situation? It is simply present without any intention. That’s meditation.”

Meditation Contemplative Prayer Pure Prayer

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“A world without death would have no beauty, no yellow leaves in the autumn. It would be boring. There would be no change because change implies death. A world without death would be a frozen world. The fact is that we want to make the world better than God does.”

Life Death Time Change Eternal Immortality Timeless Impermance Co Dependent Arising

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“Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.”

Ego Nonduality Spiritual Transformation Jnana Yoga

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“When we love our hate, we stop hating. Love always wins. To love hatred means to welcome it. It doesn’t mean that we should do what it tells us to do, but we shouldn’t suppress it either. When we love hatred we put ourselves out of the process of hatred, and love begins.”

Love Hate Grace Unity Oneness Inclusion Nonduality Wholeness Hospitality Universality

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