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#1

“Religion can hardly revive, because it cannot decay. To put the matter bluntly on the lowest level, it is not to anybody’s interest that religion should disappear. If it did, many compositors would be thrown out of work; the audiences of our best-selling scientists would shrink to almost nothing; and the typewriters of the Huxley Brothers would cease from tapping. Without religion the whole human race would die, as according to W. H. R. Rivers, some Melanesian tribes have died, solely of boredom. Every one would be affected: the man who regularly has a run in his car and a round of golf on Sunday, quite as much as the punctilious churchgoer.”
― T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays: 1917-1932

tags: faith, religion

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#2

“you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes”
― john j geddes

tags: desolation, need, solitude

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#3

“Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: desolation, dirge, glory, jack-goldenberg

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#4

“Fear of God is a beginning of knowledge.
The fear lessened on a higher knowledge.
Walk with God is on the top of knowledge.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: fear, knowledge, walk-with-god

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#5

“A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.”
― Henrietta C. Mears

tags: destination, god, man, path, walk, walk-with-god

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#6

“May the Spirit lead us to walk on sacred ground.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

tags: christian, faith, grace, motivational, spiritual, walk-with-god

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#7

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel

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#8

“Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.”
― Ray Simpson, Exploring Celtic Spirituality

tags: celts, distractions, fears, pilgrimage, spirituality

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#9

“After many paths and many years, perhaps many lifetimes, we become aware of the sacredness of our suffering.”
― Earthschool Harmony, Back To Grace: Spiritual Poetry & Reflections

tags: awareness, back-to-grace, earthschool-harmony, healing, lifetimes, light, love, love-quotes, meditation, path, pilgrim, pilgrimage, rebirth, reflection, sacred, sacredness, self-love, soulfood, spiritual-healing, spititual-guidance, suffering, truth

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#10

“Life is a pilgrimage. Each moment is to be lived in depth, because each moment contains God, hidden within it.”
― Banani Ray, Glory of OM: A Journey to Self-Realization

tags: god, life, living, mindfulness, pilgrimage, present-moment, present-moment-living

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#11

“Self-denial is spiritual.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: destiny, fate, pilgrimage, seekers-of-god, self-realization, self-sacrifice, spiritual-sayings, wise-sayings

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#12

“What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: ambition, believe-and-achieve, calling-people, destiny, determination, determined-spirit, education, educational-philosophy, enthusiasm-inspiration, faith, fulfilling-purpose, journey, journey-to-yourself, journeys, life-philosophy, path, paths-of-life, perseverance, persistence, pilgrimage, positive, seekers-of-fate, seekers-of-god, spiritual, time-travel, travel, travel-writing, traveler, travelers-blessing, wisdom

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#13

“Every great journey stimulates great faith and great joy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: endurance, faith, hope, journey, life, motivation, pilgrimage, travel, voyage

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#14

“Seekers of wisdom, seekers of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

tags: awaken, christian, college, daily-inspiration, daily-life, education, educational-philosophy, fate, inspiring, knowledge, learner, learning, lessons-learnt, life, life-philosophy, lifelong-education, lifelong-learner, pilgrimage, positive, reader, readers-life, reading, school, seekers, self-determination, self-realization, spiritual, student, success, university, uplifting, wisdom, wise-words

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#15

“The places of pilgrimage have marked a kind of geography of faith in our country, that is, they make visible, almost tangible, how our forefathers encountered the living God, how HE did not withdraw after creation or after the time of Jesus Christ, but is always present and works in them so that they were able to experience HIM, follow in his footsteps, and see him in the works HE performed. Yes, HE is there, and HE is still there today. It is from this inner encounter with the Lord that there originated the places and images of pilgrimage in which we, so to speak, can participate in what they saw, in what their faith provided for them.”
― Pope Benedict XVI, Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year

tags: pilgrimage

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#16

“if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace".”
― grace of God

tags: god, grace, jesus-christ, walk-with-god

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#17

“Your real secret hiding place is not a dark cave, it is not a dusky forest, it is not a desolate house in the middle of nowhere but your real secret hiding place is always your own mind! Every person ultimately hides himself over there, in his own mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

tags: desolate, hiding-place, hiding-places, mind, mind-quotes, murat-ildan-quotations, secret-hiding-place, turkish-literature, your-mind

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#18

“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life. I think ritual is terribly important.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: joseph-campbell, mythology, ritual

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#19

“The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens”
― Baha'u'llah, THE KITAB-I-AQDAS

tags: faith, love, unity

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#20

“The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more and more ‘artificial’…”
― René Guénon

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#21

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”
― René Guénon

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#22

“The quantitative degeneration of all things is closely linked to that of money, as is shown by the fact that nowadays the ‘worth’ of an object is ordinarily ‘estimated’ only in terms of its price, considered simply as a ‘figure’, a ‘sum’, or a numerical quantity of money; in fact, with most of our contemporaries, every judgment brought to bear on an object is nearly always based exclusively on what it costs. The word ‘estimate’ has been emphasized because it has in itself a double meaning, qualitative and quantitative; today the first meaning has been lost to sight, or what amounts to the same thing, means have been found to equate it to the second, and thus it comes about that not only is the ‘worth’ of an object ‘estimated’ according to its price, but the ‘worth’ of a man is ‘estimated’ according to his wealth.”
― René Guénon

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#23

“What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it had no cause, it would be a contradiction in terms.”
― René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World

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#24

“The “end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.”
― René Guénon

tags: antimodernism, traditionalism

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#25

“We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.”
― Frithjof Schuon , Esoterism As Principle and As Way

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#26

“The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#27

“[...] Thus the sedentary peoples create the plastic arts (architecture, sculpture, painting), the arts consisting of forms developed in space; the nomads create the phonetic arts (music, poetry), the arts consisting of forms unfolded in time; for, let us say it again, all art is in its origin essentially symbolical and ritual, and only through a late degeneration, indeed a very recent degeneration, has it lost its sacred character so as to become at last the purely profane 'recreation' to which it has been reduced among our contemporaries.”
― René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

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#28

“All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru”
― Masashi Kishimoto

tags: decay, impermanence, life-and-death, naruto, orochimaru

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#29

“Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

tags: death, decay, destruction, ruin

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#30

“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
― Joseph Campbell, Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research

tags: attributed, metaphor, mysticism, psychosis, schizophrenia

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