There is one thing in life which is worth having at any cost, and it is love. Love immense and infinite, broad as the sky and deep as the ocean - This is the one great gain in life. Blessed is he who gets it.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
There is neither in Heaven nor on earth anything sweeter than love, nothing stronger, nothing loftier, nothing happier, nothing more precious; for love is born of God.
Thomas a Kempis
Are you growing spiritually? Can you love others? Can you feel oneness with others? Have you peace within yourself and do you radiate it around you? That is called spiritual growth, which is stimulated by meditation, inwardly, and by work done in a spirit of service, outwardly.
Swami Ranganathananda
He who would find Blessedness, let him find himself. Men fly from creed to creed, and find - unrest; they travel in many lands, and discover - disappointment; they build themselves beautiful mansions, and plant pleasant gardens, and reap - ennui and discomfort. Not until a man falls back upon the Truth within himself does he find rest and satisfaction; not until he builds the inward Mansion of Faultless Conduct does he find the endless and incorruptible Joy, and, having obtained that, he will infuse it into all his doings and possessions.
James Allen, Book of Meditations for Every Day in the year
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Fill my heart with Love, that my every teardrop may become a star.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson. Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles."
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
St. Augustine of Hippo
All has been consecrated. The creatures in the forest know this, the earth does, the seas do, the clouds know, as does the heart full of love. Strange that a priest would rob us of this knowledge and then empower himself with the ability to make holy what already was.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia of Alexandria. (Greek mathematician 370 AD - 415 AD)
A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
Hildegard of Bingen, from a letter to Elisabeth of Schönau.
Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. 4, 153.
Where There is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
When the soul, being kissed by God, is in absolute perfection and bliss, then at last she knows the embrace of unity, then at the touch of God she is made uncreaturely; then with God's motion the soul is as noble as God is Himself. As the drop becomes the ocean, not the ocean the drop, so the soul imbibing God turns into God, not God into the soul. There the soul loses its name, its power and its activity, but not its existence. The soul abides in God as God abides in Himself.
Meister Eckhart, The Spiritual Athlete, by Ray Berry, 261.
Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: From me all has come forth, and to me all has reached. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas, 77.
Bondage is of the mind, and freedom is also of the mind. A man is free if he constantly thinks: "I am a free soul. How can I be bound, whether I live in the world or in the forest? I am a child of God, the King of Kings. Who can bind me?"
Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 138.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin
The prophet said: "God guides the redeemed through a narrow way into the broad road, so that they come into the wide and broad place." That is to say, into true freedom of the spirit, when one has become one spirit with God.
Our salutations go to all the past Prophets whose teachings and lives we have inherited, whatever might have been their race, clime, or creed! Our salutations go to all those Godlike men and women who are working to help humanity, whatever be their birth, colour, or race! Our salutations to those who are coming in the future - living Gods - to work unselfishly for our descendants.
Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Vol. 4, 153.
Where There is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
When the soul, being kissed by God, is in absolute perfection and bliss, then at last she knows the embrace of unity, then at the touch of God she is made uncreaturely; then with God's motion the soul is as noble as God is Himself. As the drop becomes the ocean, not the ocean the drop, so the soul imbibing God turns into God, not God into the soul. There the soul loses its name, its power and its activity, but not its existence. The soul abides in God as God abides in Himself.
Meister Eckhart, The Spiritual Athlete, by Ray Berry, 261.
Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: From me all has come forth, and to me all has reached. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas, 77.
Bondage is of the mind, and freedom is also of the mind. A man is free if he constantly thinks: "I am a free soul. How can I be bound, whether I live in the world or in the forest? I am a child of God, the King of Kings. Who can bind me?"
Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 138.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin
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