Enlightening quotes

Enlightening quotes

A variety of spiritual quotations from around the globe...
A variety of spiritual quotations from around the globe...

My role in society

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 29 October, 2011 - 04:28
    "My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
    is to try and express what we all feel...

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Embracing the all of it - Kahlil Gibran

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 21 July, 2011 - 05:46
    "But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor...

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True joy

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 15 July, 2011 - 06:57
    "Joy can be found anywhere at anytime.
    When you get up in the morning and have a shower,
    are you thinking about what you have to do today?
    Or are you feeling the warm water caressing your skin?...

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The incompatibility between spirit and matter

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 21 May, 2011 - 05:45
    "The incompatibility between spirit and matter compresses itself like a rushing vortex. When the spirit is burdened by contacting imperfection through the shell, it begins a battle which discloses the imperfection...

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Liberate your being - Lao Tzu

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 8 April, 2011 - 05:44

    "Humanity grows more and more intelligent,
    yet there is clearly more trouble and less happiness daily.
    How can this be so? It is because intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom...

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I have found the path - Kahlil Gibran

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 25 March, 2011 - 06:20
    Say not, "I have found the truth,"
    but rather, "I have found a truth."...

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Throw yourself in...

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 6 January, 2011 - 09:38

    "You've been walking in circles, searching.
    Don't drink by the water's edge...
    Throw yourself in. Become the water.
    Only then will your thirst end."
    Jeanette Berson
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The absolute

Submitted by Chris Bourne on 30 April, 2010 - 06:39
    In walking the path,
    there is no "absolutely this" or "absolutely that"...

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Emptiness - Lao Tzu

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 27 March, 2010 - 08:12

    We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
    But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends...

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Rise above limitations...

Submitted by Trinity Bourne on 10 March, 2010 - 11:48
    "When faced with a radical crisis,
    when the old way of being in the world,
    of interacting with each other and with the realm...

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