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Spirituality Quotes by Pema Chodron
- Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
- It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen…
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
- We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.
- Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our…
- It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon