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#1

“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology. ”
― Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

tags: kindness, religion, spirituality

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#2

“We have developed a more logical and discursive mode of thought. Instead of looking at a physical phenomena imaginatively, we strip an object of all its emotive associations and concentrate on the thing itself.”
― Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

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#3

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

tags: disappointment, failure, moving-on

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#4

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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#5

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

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#6

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: bible, christianity, god, organized-religion, religion, yahweh

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#7

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, existentialism, follow-your-bliss, self-actualization, self-determination

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#8

“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
― Richard Dawkins

tags: institutions, organized-religion, religion, richard-dawkins

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#9

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

tags: anxiety, awareness, awareness-quotes, breath, breathing, breathing-in-awareness, depression, depression-quotes, live-in-the-moment, living-in-the-moment, living-in-the-present, living-in-the-present-moment, living-life-to-the-fullest, meditation, meditations-quotes, mindfulness, peace, present-moment, relaxation, self-awareness, stress, stress-management, stress-relief, tension

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#10

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

tags: attention, compassion, happiness, happy-life, inspirational, kindness, life, love, meaning-of-life, meditation, money, oneness, peace, perspective, philosophy, positive-attitude, positive-living, purpose, purpose-in-life, purpose-of-life, purposeful-living, respect, revelation, self-awareness, self-discovery, spirit, spirituality, wisdom

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#11

“Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

tags: inspirational, lifestyle, living, meditation, yoga

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#12

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

tags: beauty, beauty-in-nature, inspirational, love, meditation, mind, mindfulness, nature, nature-s-beauty, pure-awareness, purifying, relaxation

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#13

“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

tags: blossoming, divinity, divinity-within, flowering, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, meditation, nourishing, nourishment, nourishment-of-soul, wisdom, wisdom-quotes, yoga

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#14

“Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

tags: compassion, happiness, higher-consciousness, kindness, love, non-violence, nonviolence, peace, world-peace

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#15

“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

tags: anxiety, god, meditate, meditation, meditations-quotes, om, prayer, silence

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#16

“Too many people are living below their privileges. It’s because their vision has been clouded by past mistakes, disappointments, or how they were raised. They don’t feel like royalty. They don’t think they could be successful and really accomplish what God has put in their hearts. But I believe today, as I’m speaking faith into you, something is happening on the inside.”
― Joel Osteen, I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

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#17

“true love is always backed up with actions.”
― Joel Osteen, Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

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#18

“God will never ask you for something without first depositing it within you. If you will dare to take a step of faith, you will discover gifts inside that you never before realized were there.”
― Joel Osteen, Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

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#19

“Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.”
― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

tags: challenge, challenge-inspiration-motivation, challenges, conquer, conquering-fear, darkness, darkness-and-light, life-throws-challenges, light, obstacles, rainbow, rainbows

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#20

“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

tags: bird, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, true-purpose, wings, wisdom, wisdom-quote

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#21

“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...”
― Brian Greene

tags: communication, insight, intelligence, investigation, process, science, understanding

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#22

“Even if we choose to use the nonstandard notion of distance and thereby describe the radius as being shorter than the Planck length, the physics we encounter—as discussed in previous sections—will be identical to that of a universe in which the radius, in the conventional sense of distance, is larger than the Planck length”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe

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#23

“As Feynman once wrote, "[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is—absurd.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe

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#24

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
― Joseph Campbell

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#25

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#26

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience

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#27

“Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.”
― Amit Ray

tags: inner-strength, inspirational, prayer

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#28

“Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

tags: meditate, meditation, meditation-quotes, message, peace, ray, spirituality, sun

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#29

“Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.”
― Amit Ray

tags: expression, life, lifestyle, light-of-the-spirit, shadow, soul

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#30

“Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy”
― Amit Ray

tags: inspirational, motivational

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