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Enlightening quotes

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

Improving the world - Lao Tzu

    "Do you want to improve the world?
    I don’t think it can be done...

    The world is sacred.
    It can’t be improved.
    If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
    If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it."

    Lao Tzu

Changing the World

    "Do you really believe
    that we can change the world
    just by going within?

My role in society

    "My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
    is to try and express what we all feel...

Embracing the all of it - Kahlil Gibran

    "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...

True joy

    "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?...

The incompatibility between spirit and matter

    "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...

Liberate your being - Lao Tzu

    "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...

I have found the path - Kahlil Gibran

    Say not, "I have found the truth,"
    but rather, "I have found a truth."...

Throw yourself in...

    "You've been walking in circles, searching.
    Don't drink by the water's edge...

The absolute

    In walking the path,
    there is no "absolutely this" or "absolutely that"...

    because in order to move into Enlightenment,
    there is only one thing that is absolute...
    and that is the absolute!

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