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We are all equal; one.
“You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.”
- Eckhart Tolle
“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”
- Marianne Williamson
“Ah, but one's reach should exceed their grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
- Robert Browning
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
"Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself".
- Benedictus de Spinoza
"Everything difficult indicates something more than our theory of life yet embraces, checks some tendency to abandon the strait path, leaving open only the way ahead."
- George MacDonald
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.”
- Marcus Aurelius
"To be, or not to be, that is the question."
- William Shakespeare
Meditate with nature:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?
Luke 1:37
Robert Browning Quotes
Verses on Peace
Verses on a Full Heart
Matthew 7
"The soul is the lure of our becoming.” — Jean Houston
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You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson
“Certainly work is not always required of a person. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
- George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede
Maturity is when you realize people can't give you what they can't give themselves. You stop expecting loyalty from people who betray themselves, stop expecting honesty from people who lie to themselves, and stop expecting peace from people who are at war with themselves.
Marcus Aurelius Thoughts
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
It is not death that a one should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
Eckhart Tolle Thoughts
Awaken
Non-judgmental awareness is key. Become more aware of what is going on inside you, inside others and in the world around you.
Awakening
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The Present Moment
The past has no power over the present moment.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
“The state of consciousness I call Presence is where wisdom arises,” teaches Eckhart. “The world will change when people no longer create suffering out of unconsciousness."
Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
If your life situation is all you know about yourself, then you miss life. It's not that you have a life; you are life itself.
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don’t think about it - don’t let the feeling turn into thinking. Don’t judge or analyze. Don’t make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of “the one who observes,” the silent watcher. This is the power of the 'Now', the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Anxiety and Peace
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, the outer purpose has taken over, you lose sight
of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
It is important to experience your emotions deeply, but avoid letting them take root in you.
In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.
The degree of identification with the mind differs from person to person. Some people enjoy periods of freedom from it, however brief, and the peace, joy, and aliveness they experience in those moments make life worth living. These are also the moments when creativity, love, and compassion arise.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.
Change
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
With God nothing is impossible.
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
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