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“The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.”
― Neale Donald Walsch

“It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. ”
― M. Scott Peck

“Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we
are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form;
that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences,
that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences”
― Deepak Chopra

“We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?”
― Debbie Ford

“You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.”
― George Alexiou

“An attitude of gratitude brings great things.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

“Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.”
― Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

“Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual sadness.”
― Shakti Gawain

“Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you, to firm your resolve, and to bring out the best in you.”
― Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

“AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.”
― Michelangelo

“Spiritual Partnership
... The new female and the new male
are partners on a journey of spiritual growth.
They want to make the journey.
Their love and trust keep them together.
Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other.
They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals.

That is what a spiritual partnership is:
a partnership between equals
for the purpose of spiritual growth.”
― Gary Zukav, Soul Stories

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
― Stephen Covey

“Suffering is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of humanity. Even though none of us really ever welcomes it...having had enough of it in your life, will cause you to surrender and control your thoughts. It will usually lead you through the doors of spiritual journey in your life. Once you go through these doors of enlightenment...you will never be the same.”
― Timothy Pina, Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

“Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our spiritual life. ”
― Kenneth A. Myers, All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture

“namaste - it means, roughly translated, "I honor the Deity within you." that is precisely what we do when we open our hearts to another; we honor the fact that he or she, like us, is a child or the same loving Father, worthy of all respect and careful attention.”
― virginia h. pearce

“You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)”
― Julia Cameron, God is No Laughing Matter: Observations and Objections on the Spiritual Path

“You must not hate those who do wrong or harmful things; but with compassion, you must do what you can to stop them — for they are harming themselves, as well as those who suffer from their actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.”
― George Alexiou

“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
― HH the Dalai Lama

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.”
― Paul Valery

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe