Truth

Truth is always hidden like a shadow in darkness. It waits for anyone who wishes to find it. Seek the Truth. Truth brings closure.

The truth can both lift up and knock down. The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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The ultimate truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They are not the Way. - Bodhidharma

Truth is a demure lady, much too lady-like to knock you on the head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but the people must want her, and seek her out. - Unknown

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it. - George Harrison

A sagacious student does not depend on his teacher’s words, but uses his own experience to find the truth. - Bodhidharma

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Sebastian Agar

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. - David Victor Sim

Truth, like oil, will in time rise to surface. - Charlie Chan

If you do not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? - Dogen Zenji

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The Mind

The mind is defined as “the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought”.

“It’s all in the mind,” people often say, without realizing how true that is. The mind is the root from which all things grow. Everything begins and ends in the mind. The mind is what makes everything else work.

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Control of the mind is the key to happiness. It is the kind of virtue and the force behind all true achievement. It is owing to lack of control that various conflicts arise in man’s mind. If he is to control them, he must learn not to give free rein to his longings and inclinations and should try to live a self-governed, pure and calm life. - K. Sri Dhammananda

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha

It is only when the mind is controlled and is kept to the right road of orderly progress that it becomes useful for its possessor and for society. A disorderly mind is a liability both to its owner and to others, all the havoc wrought in the world is wrought by men who have not learned the way of mind control, balance and poise. - K. Sri Dhammananda

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Compassion

What is compassion? Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow. Compassion is not pity... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion is the sense of our own misfortunes in those of another. It is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

The mind of compassion knows no bitterness nor judgement, no good nor bad, no right nor wrong. Only the wish for all beings to be happy. Compassion is the religion of the heart, the basis of morality.

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Compassion is not a quality to be cultivated in isolation, aloof from life. It is easy to be compassionate from a distance, when your heart is undisturbed. When you are surrounded by those who love and care for you, when you have built a world where pain is repressed or ignored, you can easily immerse yourself in thoughts of love and tolerance. Yet that is a fragile world, built on foundations that will always crumble. Compassion speaks of the willingness to engage with tragedy, loss, and pain. Its domain is not only the world of those you love and care for, but equally the people who threaten you, the countless people you don't know, the homeless person you meet on the street, and the situations of anger and hatred you recoil from. It is here that you learn about the depths of tolerance and understanding that are possible for each one of us. It is here that you learn about dignity, meaning, and greatness of heart. - Christina Feldman

Compassion is not just a feeling; it is a response to pain that is deeply rooted in wisdom. It is a commitment to alleviating suffering and the cause of suffering in all its forms. - Christina Feldman

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love – for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. - Ram Dass

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Buddhism

The man who has conquered self-love is, according to the Buddha, the highest being in the universe. The conquest can be best be acquired by practicing generosity, by following the principles of righteousness and justice, by abstaining from unworthy desires and by observing an elementary morality. The minimum required of a good man, a good citizen, is that he should abstain from taking life, from theft, from unchastity, from lying and from intoxicants, covetousness, malevolence, ill-temper, sloth and torpor of body and mind, fretfulness and irritability, doubt and perplexity - these the Buddha declares are hindrances to spiritual progress.

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When you listen to the Dharma you must open up your heart and compose yourself in the centre. Don't try to accumulate what you hear or make a painstaking effort to retain what you hear through memory. Just let the Dharma flow into your heart as it reveals itself, and keep yourself continuously open to its flow in the present moment. What is ready to be retained will be so, and it will happen of its own accord, not through any determined effort on your part.
Similarly, when you expound the Dharma, you must not force yourself. It should happen on its own and should flow spontaneously from the present moment and circumstances. People have different levels of receptive ability, and when you're there at that same level it just happens, the Dharma flows.

If anyone were to speak ill of me, my doctrine or my disciples, do not bear any ill-will towards him, do not be upset or be perturbed at heart, for if you were to be so it will only cause you harm. On the other hand if anyone were to speak well of me, my doctrine and my disciples, do not be overjoyed, thrilled or be elated at heart, for if you should be so it will only be an obstacle in your way of forming a correct judgment as to whether the qualities of praised are indeed real and actually found in us.
In the self-same way, disciple, a certain monk may be very kind, very gentle, very quiet, so long as no unpleasant words are uttered. When, however, people begin to say unpleasant things of the monk – then is the time to see if the monk is kind, or if he is gentle or if he is quiet.

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Religion

Consider the long history of the activities inspired by moral fervour: human sacrifices, persecutions of heretics, witch-hunts, pogroms leading up to wholesale extermination by poison gases... Are these abominations, and the ethical doctrines by which they are prompted, really evidence of an intelligent Creator? And can we really wish that the men who practised them should live for ever? The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of a deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis. - Bertrand Russell

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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly surprised at the weakness of his intellect. - Sigmund Freud

While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite. - Stephen Hyde

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash? The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, "There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so god damned lonely any more. - Kurt Vonnegut

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Faith

It’s called Faith because it’s not knowledge. The more knowledge you have, the less faith you need. Faith doesn’t give you the answers. It just stops you from asking the questions.

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Faith is not a part of knowledge. If you have to say you have faith that something exists, then you’ve already admitted that it probably doesn’t. - G. Vorillas

Faith is not a virtue, it’s the glorification of voluntary ignorance. - Unknown

Faith is the excuse people give for believing something when they don’t have a good reason. - Matt Dillahunty

Faith is a cognitive illness disguise as a moral virtue. - Peter Boghossian

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science. - Lloyd Auerbach

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Prayers

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If God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago. - Tom Robbins

You should never trust a person who prays in public. - Stephen King

If you just sit around praying, nothing gets done. - Nora Roberts

Prayer is the stimulant of the feeble. - Abraham Miller

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. - Amit Ray

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God

I really do not believe that there is a god. I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one. It's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it's an opinion I hold seriously. It's funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. People will then often say, "But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?" This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I've been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I would choose not to worship him anyway.) - Douglas Adams

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Many deeds are enacted in God's name which fill the Devil's heart with envy. - Abraham Miller

The existence of the world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all his perfection, creating an imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell. - Armand Salacrou

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign. - Charles Baudelaire

You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. - Anne Lamott

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Churches

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Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, but few go there to worship God. - Proverb

Where Christ erecteth his church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel. - Richard Bancroft

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. - Fred Allen

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light houses are more helpful than churches. - Benjamin Franklin

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Christianity

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The best cure for Christianity is reading the bible. - Mark Twain

The greatest crime in fundamentalist Christianity is to think. - Unknown

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried. - Henry Parry Liddon

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done. - Friedrich Nietzsche

He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect of church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The Bible

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Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of [another]. - Harper Lee

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad. - Aleister Crowley

Someone ought to tell the truth about the Bible. The preachers dare not, because they would be driven from their pulpits. Proffessors in colleges dare not, because they would lose their salaries. Politicians dare not, because they would be defeated. Editors dare not, they would lose their subscribers. Merchants dare not, because they might lose customers. - Robert G Ingersoll

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Beliefs

Your beliefs – they are just that. They are nothing, they are just how you were taught, and raised. That doesn’t make them real. You have a right to your beliefs, but that does not mean your beliefs are right.

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ground for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. - George Bernard Shaw

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes. - Francis Bacon

What you believe will depend very much on what you are. - Noah Porter

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. - Ovid

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - H. L. Mencken

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Atheism

Atheism is not a religion. One does not convert to Atheism. One simply realises everything they’ve been told about god is bullxxit.

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It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty. - Steve Allen

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don't want to waste my time. - Isaac Asimov

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams

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Inner Peace

When stressed or going through a difficult time, it is essential that you take the time to relax in order to replenish your mind, body, and spirit. Nurture your well being by creating an oasis of calm in your life. Getting calm allows you to get a fresh perspective and helps you cope better physically and emotionally with your troubles. Being able to control at least one aspect of your life, in this case time to yourself, helps you to get a grip on the rest of it. - Unknown

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Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace. - Brian L. Weiss

Peace comes within the soul of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its power. - Black Elk

Sit quietly and tune into your self. You will find that within that calm and peace, there are many answers. - Unknown

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. - Eckhart Tolle

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The Soul

The soul is the purported immaterial aspect or essence of a living being. It is typically believed to be immortal and to exist apart from the material world. The three main theories that describe the relationship between the soul and the body are interactionism, parallelism, and epiphenomenalism. - Wikipedia

Some called the soul their Higher Self, Consciousness, Universal Life Force...

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The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires. Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own furtive of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit; bad thought, bad fruit. - James Allen

Your Soul and My Soul are part of the great Soul known as the universe. We are universe within the Universe. Although many, We are One. - Julie Parker

As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Deep within your soul is a door that opens into a world of wonder. Open the door and let the magic in. - Unknown Only as we begin to open to others in love can our isolated ego be transformed. An awareness of our interdependence with other human beings and with all of life provides the environment in which the seed of our souls can flourish. - Kabir Helminski

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. - Tom Robbins

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Awakening

Awakening – an act or moment of becoming suddenly aware of something.

There are three dimensions to Awakening.
1. Psychological Awakening leads self-awareness and inner peace.
2. Personal Awakening leads to clarity of mind and a sense of purpose in life.
3. Spiritual Awakening leads to higher consciousness and meaning in life.

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The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analysation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily. - Robert Adam

A glimpse is enough to initiate the awakening process, which is irreversible. - Eckhart Tolle

Awakening is not changing who you are but discarding who you are not. - Deepak Chopra

During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. - Chuang Tzu

Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement. - Buddha

Becoming awake involves seeing our confusion more clearly. - Chogyam Trungpa

No matter how old a person is or how close they get tot he door of exit, the calling keeps calling. A person can awaken at any point along the path of life. - Michael Meade

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Spirituality Journey

The spirtual journey is a very personal thing. There will sometimes be long periods when you feel you are not getting anywhere. And there will be times when you have a moment of ‘enlightenment’. Like doing a zigsaw puzzle, you found a piece of the puzzle that fits. When that happens, you will feel blissful.

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When the Light of Purpose illuminates our lives, we will see clearly the Path on which we are to walk. - George Petavine

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other’s experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. - A. R. Rahman

We are travellers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. - Paulo Coelho

The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning one’s self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. - Aldous Huxley

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Spiritual Training

Learn to trust the journey even if you do not understand it. Sometimes what you never wanted or expected turns out to be what you need. Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s okay. You’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand. Trust the process of life to unfold just the way it needs to for your soul’s perfect path.

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In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace. - Morihei Ueshiba

The essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect. - Dali Lama

The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. - The Dalai Lama

It is essential at the beginning of practice to acknowledge that the path is personal and intimate. It is no good to examine it from a distance as if it were someone else’s. You must walk it for yourself. - Robert Aitken

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it. - Osho

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Spirritual Life

I started out on my spiritual journey in my mid-twenties when common sense and logic told me that the God people believe in couldn’t exist. I believe there is a higher ‘Order’ in the scheme of things. This order is ‘Dependent Origination’. It is this ‘Order’ that things come into being and non-being. This ‘Order’ is responsible for maintaining the equilibrium, keeping the universe together, keeping it going with its own laws.

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In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material things and can love all people without any attachment to them. - Unknown

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures. - James E. Faust

Great men are they who see that spirituality is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. - Jim Rohn

Worldly pleasures and bad experiences are so transitory – knowing their transitory nature, their relative nature, their conventional nature, makes you free. - Unknown

One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. - Steve Maraboli

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life. - Eckhart Tolle

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Mysticism

Mysticism is the journey Inward. Mystics embark on an inward journey, seeking to explore the depths of their own consciousness and soul. This journey often involves practices such as meditation, contemplation, and prayer.

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There’s a saying which states ‘Religion is for the masses, and mysticism is for the individual’. If you want to be a sheep and follow along with the masses to get a generic, candy-coated version of your spirituality, then follow the teachings of the Christian fathers. If you want to explore your won individual spirituality, you must go deeply inside yourself, instead of through church doors. - Jordan Maxwell

Mystical attainment is an individual accomplishment. Others influence our way of approaching life, but the development of the inner self must be undertaken in solitude. It is by retreating within, facing the real self, and relying on his own resources that the way to mastery of life is achieved. - Unknown

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness. - Russell Targ

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Zen Practice

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing meditation as the path to direct experience of one's true nature and inner peace. Originating in China as ‘Chan Buddhism’, it spread to Japan and focuses on the practice of zazen (seated meditation) and cultivating a calm, present-moment awareness to understand the illusory nature of the ego and suffering. 

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One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it. - Osho

You mustn’t worry about how your practice is, whether you are making progress or not, whether you are in anguish or not. All these things are not important. They are like clouds passing in front of the moon. You must not be attached to anything that appears in your mind. - Zen master Seung Sahn

Zen is practice, experience, life – not explaining, interpreting, investigating, quibbling. All talk, as the Chinese masters of old say, is at best a finger pointing to the moon. The finger is not the moon and cannot pull the moon down. - Heinrich Dumoulin

Joy comes from appreciation. Appreciation comes from paying attention. Paying attention is the practice of Zen. - Zen Saying

In Zen, we don’t find the answers, we lost the questions. - Zen saying

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Tao - The Way of Nature

Taoism emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao, (The Way of Nature) which means aligning oneself with the natural order of the universe and the flow of energy (Chi or Qi).

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Life exists only at this very moment. You may believe yourself out of harmony with life and its eternal Now; but you cannot be, for you are life and exist Now – otherwise you would not be here. Hence the infinite Tao is something which you can neither escape by flight nor catch by pursuit; there is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it. So, become what you are. - Alan Watts

The Tao is supreme goodness. It has no form and is limitless. It is formless because there is no visible trace of its existence. The Tao is that energy that has existed from the beginning when there was neither structure nor differentiation. It is the source of life in heaven and on earth. - Shui-ch'ing Tzu

To study The Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. - Dogen

The Tao is near and people seek it far away. - Mencius

In the morning, hear the Way; in the evening, die content! - Confucius

If you overlook the Way right before your eyes, how will you recognize the path beneath your feet? - Shih-T’ou

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Chi/Energy

All things have a frequency and a vibration. The wonderful thing to understand here is that the energy that you radiate or send out attracts other situations, events, persons, etc. which are in harmony with your internal energy field. Pay attention to whom your energy increases and decreases around, because that’s the universe giving you a hint of who you should embrace or stay from.

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Energy is the currency of the universe. When you ‘pay’ attention to something, you buy that experience. So when you allow your consciousness to focus on someone or something that annoys you, you feed it your energy, and it reciprocates the experience of being annoyed. Be selective in your focus because your attention feeds the energy of it and keeps it alive. Not just within you, but in the collective consciousness as well. - Emily Marcoutian

At the ultimate level, cultivating energy leads to a wonderful sense of spiritual renewal. Some people have a vibrant living faith, either as part of an orthodox religion or through a private sense of belief. But many people nowadays feel alienated from traditional religions or unable to reconcile their own feelings with the dogma and rituals of age-old sects. However, once you begin to work with energy, the outward trappings of religion become unimportant. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how you perceive God, Goddess, Creator, - when you connect to the living, vibrant energy of the universe, there is no need for names or titles. Instead there is a wonderful sense of belonging, of love, peace and connection. As beings of energy we become united with the source of all energy and therein lies our purpose and our meaning. - Unknown

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The Universe

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The universe is a communion and a community. We ourselves are that communion become conscious of itself. - Thomas Berry

The universe is like our body, The Cosmos in our hand. Nebulous, formless they remain Manifested in forms without end. - Shao Yong 

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Brian Cox

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. - Vera Nazarian

The universe continually sends us sensory messages, which we can never quite decode. - Susan Hubbard

The Universe imparts lessons to ALL so we can learn and grow without exceptions. - Unknown

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Science

Science is a systematic approach to understanding the natural world through observation, experimentation, and the development of testable explanations. It's a way of acquiring knowledge about how the world works, from the smallest particles to the largest galaxies. 

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Science may be weird and incomprehensible – more weird and less comprehensible than any theology – but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don't), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong. - Richard Dawkins

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition. - Bertrand Russell

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. - Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

Science is simply common sense at its best – that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. - Thomas Huxley

Just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you. - Dara O'Brien

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Why Do People Meditate

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or when we lost it. We may call it access to more of our human potential or being closer to ourselves and to reality, or to more of our capacity for love and zest and enthusiasm, or our knowledge that we are a part of the universe and can never be alienated or separate from it, or our ability to see and function in reality more effectively.

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When you have achieved a state of deep meditation, you unlock the door to your subconscious mind. That is where your power to create the life you desire lies. - Adrian Calabreso

Meditation tends to free a great deal of energy that is usually tied up in various kinds of mental and emotional tensions. When these tensions are released we have more energy available to live full and creative lives. - Unknown

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion. - Geneen Roth

Suffering occurs when people are enslaved by their thoughts. Meditation teaches one to let them go like one’s breath. - Venerable Hyon Gak

Meditation brings wisdom. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. - Buddha

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Truth

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No one owns the truth, no person, no prophet, and no holy book. Each of those and, indeed, each person has the ability, the right, and the responsibility to seek and find his or her own truth, and, if found, it may be a truth for that moment, in that situation, and for that person only. - Unknown

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true... written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us... vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called... re-membered... re-cognized... as that which is already inside us. - Dan Brown

Truth is both the way and the goal, the direction to the destination and the destination itself. - Unknown

On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it. - Horace Mann

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The Mind

The mind grows by what it feeds on. It will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it the truth. Feed it with love. You have power over your mind – not outside events. When you are able to control your mind, you will be free. Realize this, and you will find strength. We have to nurture our mind with positive thoughts. A negative mind will never give you a positive life.

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What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul. - Logan Pearsall Smith

Control of the mind is the key to happiness. It is the kind of virtue and the force behind all true achievement. It is owing to lack of control that various conflicts arise in man’s mind. If he is to control them, he must learn not to give free rein to his longings and inclinations and should try to live a self-governed, pure and calm life. - K. Sri Dhammananda

It’s all in your mind. Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. - Unknown

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Compassion

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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human. - Henri J. M Mouwen

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. - Andrew Boyd

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. - Joseph Addison

Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving, good for you. If your kindness reaches the undeserving, take joy in your compassion. - James Fadiman

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living beings, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer

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