Jack Ensign Addington

  "I believe that the Eastern religions continue today to believe that the

third eye is the seat of spiritual insight. Somewhere along the line, the spelling has been slightly altered since the Bible spells the word Peniel or Penuel, but the similarity of meaning suggests that they are related. Peniel means recognition of God. Meditation is for the purpose of recognizing God, our spiritual Source. To this we direct our attention. Is this not the seat of the soul, spiritual insight, the union of man with his infinite Source

Gangaji

"Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.”

Hermann Hesse

 “The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”

Eckhart Tolle

 To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Rumi

 If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.”

, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Earthly knowledge is as clouds dimming the sight, and it is the breaking of these clouds - in other words, purity of heart - that gives the capacity for the knowledge of God to rise.

-Ekashloki by Adi Shankaracharya

 G: What is your source of light?

D: During the day it is the sun and at night, it is lamp, etc.

G: Yes, it is. Tell me, what light is the means of seeing the sun and the lamp

D: It is the eye.

G: At the time of shutting the eyes, etc., what is the light?

D: It is intellect.

G: What is the source of light for the intellect?

D: It is “I”, the Self (Awareness)

G: Therefore, your own Self (Awareness) is the light of lights (or the Supreme light).

D: Yes, O Lord, I am That Supreme Light (Awareness)

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

 "You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!"

–Rainer Maria Rilke

 A billion stars go spinning through the night,

blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.

Rob Bell

 "When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human."

Albert Einstein

 

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."

Stephen Harrod Buhner

 "Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning."

                                                 

Kenneth Schmitt

 "As we raise our vibrations through awareness of our true being, our energy field expands in radiance and beauty. Our awareness also expands with our energy field, and we become more intuitive and telepathic. We become more heart-centered in our personal relationships and with ourselves."

The Bhagavad Gita

 "Elevate yourself through the power of your mind, and not degrade yourself, for the mind can be the friend and also the enemy of the self."

The Butterfly

 

Alexander Graham Bell

 “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

William James (The Varieties of Religious Experience

 

"It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all."

India Ame’ye, Author

 

“Her secret to radiance is that she lives eternally in love with everything.”

Ashtavakra Gita

 If you think you are free, You are free.

If you think you are bound, You are bound. For the saying is true: You are what you think.

C. JoyBell C.

 

"There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can't see a chasm in between the two. What is spiritual produces what is scientific and when science is used to disprove the spiritual, it's always done with the intent to do so; a personal contempt. As a result, scientists today only prove their inferiority to the great founding fathers of the sciences who were practitioners of alchemy. Today's science is washed-out and scrubbed-down and robbed of everything mystical and spiritual, a knowledge born of contempt and discontent.

Fulton J. Sheen

 "The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

Unknown

 We often want it so badly that we ruin it before it begins. Overthinking. Fantasizing. Imagining. Expecting. Worrying. Doubting. Just let it naturally evolve

Mary Oliver

 "Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? While the soul, after all, is only a window, and the opening of the window no more difficult than the wakening from a little sleep."

Jean-Yves Leloup

  

"Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness.

srimad bhagwat gita.

 

Ramana

 

Starhawk

 "A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others."

Satchidananda

 "The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting."

Gerald G. May

 "Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean by pressing upon the waves. Sanity lies in somehow opening to the chaos, allowing anxiety, moving deeply into the tumult, diving into the waves, where underneath, within, peace simply is."

Abdu'l-Bahá

 

"Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it.Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion."

Joseph P. Kauffman

 You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself."

Deepak Chopra

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food"

Amit Ray

 

"The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM."

Neale Donald Walsch

 

"To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were."

Steve Maraboli

 "We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit."

M. Scott Peck

 "Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable."

Anita Moorjani

 "I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without."

Allan Rufus

 "The most incredible architecture

Is the architecture of Self,
which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel.

With every in breathe
you are adding to your life
and every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life.
Every breathe is a re-birth."

Robert M. Pirsig

 "Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships."

Doe Zantamata

 "It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed."

Eckhart Toll

 

"Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought"

Shannon L. Alder

 "Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person’s pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person, and they don’t care how it hurts you, then it is time to leave what is polluting your relationship with God."

-Nikias Annas

 Inside of us is something eternal, that never dies, and is the very root of our existence.

It is a state of joyfulness and love, bright with contentment and deep, inner satisfaction. Unfortunately, we do not know how to experience this part of ourselves, because we have become so deeply fascinated with our desires and fears. Yet through training, we can abandon the illusions that cause us to suffer, and instead get to know the source of true happiness and fulfilment.

C. JoyBell

 "It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received."

Ramana

 

Eve Morales

Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans

John Coltrane

 "My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being.When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups.I want to speak to their souls."

Niva Shah

 

Samael Aun Weor

 “We need to have the mind of a child in order to enter into the Major Mysteries. We need to be like children in our minds and hearts. We need to be perfect as our Father who is in heaven is perfect. The great mysteries are not achievable through vain intellectualisms; the Major Mysteries are achievable with the heart of a child.”

Forrest Curran

 

"If you want to be free of the wars of the world, begin by resolving the wars within you. If you want to see the world at peace, create peace within your mind."