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“Man can live in misery, but man can also live in joy. It all depends on how you live, on how you approach life. If one never learns the art of living, life will be a misery. Unless you learn the art of living, you can't have love, silence, joy, awareness, truth and freedom. Everybody comes with an inner potential, but very few people develop that potential. The potential remains unused. One should be more like a flowing river, than a stagnant pond. We have to become flowing, moving into the unknown and always reaching for the ocean. This has been called God, truth, nirvana and enlightenment, but it is really nothing but life blossoming.”

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Book:Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine
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“If the religious theory that you learn does not serve to bring happiness and joy into your everyday life, what’s the point? Even though you say, “I’m a practitioner of this or that religion,” check what you’ve done, how you’ve acted, and what you’ve discovered since you’ve been following it […] If your path teaches you to act and exert yourself correctly and leads to spiritual realizations such as love, compassion and wisdom, then obviously it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, you’re just wasting your time.”

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Book:Becoming Your Own Therapist
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“Humanity is the highest form of love there is, and love needs no lobby, label or ideology, for love itself is everything that is human about us - we are either living in it, enveloped in its wholeness or we are analyzing it with intellect from outside while dying for a taste of it.”

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Book:When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
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“Beyond sufism, beyond advaita, beyond christian mysticism, beyond humanism, beyond atheism, agnosticism and pantheism, there is a river - a river that's pure - a river that's chaste - a river that’s incorruptible - a river that has the power to breathe life into even the most degraded society - but you can't find it anywhere, for it doesn't exist in the way we usually perceive existence, that is, it doesn't exist as a tangible physical river, like the Hudson or the Thames or the Nile - rather it exists as particles in your brain, and all it needs is the right kick to get formed. And when enough such rivers start flowing from the fountainhead of enough awake brains, the whole world will turn into an ocean of vigor, virtue and love.”

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Book:Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
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“Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.”

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Book:Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4
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“You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson
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“Is life, love, or any detail of our existence really that complicated? There are situations that warrant our attention. This is unavoidable for a life-form living in a universe with other objects. However, it is the mind that infests the moment with random thoughts and emotions. The mind is usually the master that dominates, and conscious awareness is the servant.”

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Book:Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance
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“Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.”

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Book:Awakening in the 21st Century
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“Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.”

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Book:Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence
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“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

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Book:Awakening in the 21st Century
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“Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.”

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Book:Awakening in the 21st Century
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“Control is an illusion that you must give up.”

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Book:Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence
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“Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.”

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Book:Awakening in the 21st Century
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“Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.”

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Book:Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
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“Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what 'women's lib' teaches you, chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority. An acknowledgment of your power over us. This is the only form of servitude a Vladescu ever practices, and I perform it gladly for you. You, in turn, are obligated to accept graciously.”

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Book:Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
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“The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.”

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Book:Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
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“Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world.”

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Book:Enlightenment Step by Step
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“Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? Allan Rufus.org”

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Author:Allan Rufus
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“To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we transcend conditional love to that of unconditional and we are now flowering in consciousness. Love is a very important element of consciousness as it becomes purer with Source union even as our consciousness is expanded further. Consciousness is love that is light.”

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Book:Mastery of Consciousness: Awaken the Inner Prophet: Liberate Yourself with Yogic Wisdom.
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“Being in love with someone is wanting his or her happiness. It is not wanting to possess him or her for our happiness. That’s possessiveness and desire for control. But when we’re really in love with others, we want only their happiness. We forget about our happiness, and then, therefore, ironically, we get very happy, because we temporarily stop worrying about how happy we are. When we forget about how happy we are, we become happy. That’s why people like to be in love, because when they’re in love, they focus only on the beauty and the happiness of the beloved other. (p. 127)”

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Book:The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism
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