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“From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.”

Book:The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

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The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

This book delves into the concept of divine compensation, offering insights on how to align one's work and financial endeavors with spiritual principles of abundance and well-being. more

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Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson is an American author, spiritual leader, and political activist, born on July 8, 1952. She is recognized for her self-help books and her role in the New Age movement, focusing on personal growth, spirituality, and social issues. more

“Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.”

Way Ends Self Problem Seems Left Natural Virtue Habit Behavior Vices Authenticity Behave Spontaneity Bad Behavior

Author:N. T. Wright

“Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?”

Ifs Men May Self Use Faces Asks Steps Destiny Millions Doubt Too Much Gains Tests Following Hungry Contemplating Recalls Starving Poorest Life And Destiny

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.”

Men Heart Self Today Young Materials Duty Proud Young Man Self Respect Lacking Wretched Samurai

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.”

Thinking Mind Facts Eye Girl Universe Space Existence Planets Extraordinary Living On Lipstick Mind Boggling Actually Living

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.”

Should Decision Military Type Skills Obvious Profession Exception Our Society Patriotic Providing Register Military Women

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.”

Guy Chance Needed

Book:Ham On Rye

Source: Ham On Rye

“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.”