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“Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.”

Heart Mean Soul Sometimes Body Remember Spirit Spirituality Secret Draws Strive Flesh Senses Strife

Author:Al-Ghazali

“This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.”

Spirituality Religious Secret Creating Enlightenment Ultimate Transcendence Religious Life Watchfulness

Author:Rajneesh

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.”

Way Christian Spirituality Secret Meditation Mystery Mountain Diversity Unique Rivers Stones Jew Judged Unity In Diversity Tolerance And Diversity

Author:Rumi

“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”

“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”

Joy Spirituality Secret Doubt Seeking Seeking God

Book:One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you. Have nothing to do with it. Mystery-mongering weakens the human brain. It has well-nigh destroyed Yoga, one of the grandest of sciences”

Should Humans Wells Matter Life Is Spirituality Secret Brain Mystery Yoga Guides Destroyed Mysterious Rejected Human Brain

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."”

Said Spiritual Spirituality Secret Masters Inevitable Cooperation Serenity

Author:Anthony de Mello

“In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.”

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Book:Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

“Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”

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Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.”

Mind Self Spiritual Spirituality Secret Peace Of Mind True Self

Author:Robert Adams

“Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The whole earth is full of your glory! You are found in our innermost heart, yet you fixed earth's boundaries. You are a strong tower for those who are near and the trust of those who go far. I have sought to come near you; I have called to you with all my heart; and when I went out towards you, I found you coming towards me.”

Heart Whole Earth Spiritual Spirituality Found Strong Secret Lord My Heart Glory Boundaries Fixed Towers Lofty Found You

Author:Judah Halevi

“Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?”

Giving Spirituality Christ Wealth Poor Secret Sells Saint Immortality Prophet Purity Follow Me Renunciation Great Spiritual Vedas Progeny

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.”