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“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.”

May Running Opportunity Individual Left Goal Path Wind Pure Weight Oneself Burden Block Motive Stopping Trails Frustrating Dropping Shouting Sidelines

Author:Criss Jami

“Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.”

May Moments Fire Keys Succeed Intention Fingers Affair Motive Damage Cunning Chestnuts Watchfulness

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms.”

Giving May Children Stills Jesus Christ Water Poor Jesus Christ Sight Charity Dear Glasses My Children Motive Alms

Author:John Vianney

“Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.”

“The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not be accurate and may or may not have underlying motives.”

May Doe Seeing Information Source Motive Accurate Psychics Channeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.”

May Certain Example Pride Charity Satisfied Motive Zeal

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.”

May Virtue Vices Punishment Motive Suppression

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.”

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including