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“Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.”
― Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”
― Rudolf Steiner

“Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46

“Attracting a person into your life who is genuinely compatible with you requires inner work. How can you discover who your soul mate is without first knowing who you really are and what you really want out of life? You’ll always be clambering around in the dark.”
― Mateo Sol, Twin Flames and Soul Mates: How to Find, Create, and Sustain Awakened Relationships

“Heaven and hell are the material manifestation of agreeable and disagreeable thoughts.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan:Gayan

“Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.”
― D. H. Lawrence

“The Bodhisattva is in no rush. For once we have tasted a single drop of the bliss of bringing others into that freedom, with the Spirit of Enlightenment of love and compassion, once we have loosened the grip of the solid, separated, alienated self that is the core of self-centeredness, then we are already happy in a certain way. The Bodhisattva is always joyful, even when suffering. Bodhisattvas are always happy and cheerful under pressure, because they have felt the essence of reality as freedom (p. 223)”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism

“We have the assurance of the enlightened beings that reality is goodness, that reality is freedom from suffering, that reality is bliss. So we should never fear to open ourselves to reality, to cast aside our preconceptions and biases, and to open more and more to whatever turns out to be real. You can have faith in enlightenment, faith in evolutionary potential, faith in infinity, faith in your infinite self. (p. 222)”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism

“Each of our souls has a deep urge to confess something about its nature. It sits still within us, until we come across a certain song, book, movie or person. Then everything changes.”
― Ilwaad isa

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
― Anthony de Mello

“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone else’s. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine”
― Anthony de Mello

“Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.”
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

“the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Prayer Of The Frog, Vol. 1

“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.”
― Anthony de Mello

“Being stuck in negativity is caused by four things: low personal vibration, improper use of willpower, not working harmoniously with waves and cycles, and not being fully present and aware in each moment.”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“Most often, a problem is pointing your attention to an experience you need to have. So instead of looking for a strategy or action that will change the problematic situation, try relaxing into the situation to see what your soul wants you to notice”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“When planning and setting goals, it’s important to oscillate intentionally and often between your personal daily reality and your highest vision. Your destiny evolves along with everyone else’s, so you can’t lock in plans for very long; they must be fluid and in the moment. Problem solving and planning in the Intuition Age change your experience of time and working with timelines, as you realize that past and future are being absorbed into an expanded present moment, accelerating the materialization process. Timelines are affected by the choices and plans of all people and must be checked often.”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling—it’s about choosing. And there are just two basic choices: to feel expansive, loving, and connected to the high vibrations of your soul—to literally be your soul—or to feel contracted, afraid, and immersed in the low vibrations of suffering—to not be your soul. If you choose to feel alone and separate, you’ll assume you must do everything under your own steam by controlling yourself and the world, as I did for many years. If you choose to feel connected to life, you’ll need very little of the old type of willpower. You’ll discover that concepts like flow and synchronicity take the place of willpower.”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“It is significant that the word “holiness” derives from a word meaning “wholeness” and the word “meditation,” usually used in a religious sense, closely resembles the root meaning of the word “medication.” The affinity of the two words is startlingly evident when we realize that sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it”
― Ernest Holmes