40 of the
Most Powerful Quotes of All Time 5 As chosen by a Modern Master Master
40 of the
Most Powerful Quotes of All Time As chosen by a Modern Master
40 of the
Most Powerful Quotes of All Time As chosen by a Modern Master
40 o the Most Powerul Quotes o All Time As Chosen by a Modern Master Compiled and Edited by Guy Finley Original Content Copyright 2009 Guy Finley/Lie o Learning Foundation All Rights Reserved Lie o Learning Foundation PO Box 10 Merlin, Oregon 97532 guyfnley.org
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Thou dost keep him in perect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee.
—Old Testament
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Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But i allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itsel.
—Lao-tsu
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Resign yoursel to the sequence o things, orgetting the changes o lie, and you shall enter into the Pure, the Divine, the One.
—Taoism
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Renew thysel completely each day; do it again, and again, and orever again.
—Ancient Chinese Proverb
4
The truth is the end and aim o all existence, and the worlds originate so that the truth may come and dwell therein. Those who ail to aspire or the truth have missed the purpose o lie. Blessed is he who rests in the truth, or all things will pass away, but the truth abideth orever.
—Buddhism
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No heart that holds one right desire can tread the road o loss.
—Krishna
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But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
—Jesus Christ
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He who promises runs in debt.
—The Talmud
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Thou hast ormed us or Thysel, and our hearts are restless till they fnd rest in Thee.
—Saint Augustine
9
Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.
—Mohammed
10
When the heart weeps or what it has lost, the spirit laughs or what it has ound.
—Sufsm
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As long as you cling to your sel, you will wander right and let, day and night, or thousands o years; and when, ater all that eort, you fnally open your eyes, you will see your sel, through inherent deects, wandering round itsel like the ox in a mill; but, i, once reed o your sel, you fnally get down to work, this door will open to you within two minutes.
—Hakim Sanai
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When we frst seek the truth, we think we are ar rom it. When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original sel.
—Dogen
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The shell must be cracked apart i what is in it is to come out, or i you want the kernel you must break the shell. And thereore i you want to discover nature’s nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the arther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itsel, there you must stay.
—Meister Eckhart
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I laugh when I hear that the fsh in the water is thirsty. You don’t grasp the act that what is most alive o all is inside your own house; and so you walk rom one holy city to the next with a conused look!
—Kabir
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Who overcomes by orce hath overcome but hal his oe.
—John Milton
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We are troubled only by the ears which we, and not nature, give ourselves.
—Blaise Pascal
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The very discovery o these hidden things is in itsel a puriying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The sel nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like—right to the very bottom.
—Jeanne Guyon
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As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your reedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only y so ar.
—Francis Fenelon
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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big or him.
—Philip Chesterfeld
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who alsely believe they are ree.
—Johann von Goethe
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The roaring o lions, the howling o wolves, the raging o the storming sea, and the destructive sword are portions o eternity too great or the eye o man.
—William Blake
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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment o the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods or a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this or a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, “here or nowhere,” couldst thou only see.
—Thomas Carlyle
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A little consideration o what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that o our will regulates events; that our painul labors are unnecessary and ruitless; that only in our easy, simple, spontaneous action are we strong . . . . Place yoursel in the middle o the stream o power and wisdom which animates all whom it oats, and you are without eort impelled to truth, to right, and a perect contentment.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything counts or gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state o wakeulness.
—Henry David Thoreau
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There is provided an escape rom the narrowness and poverty o the individual lie, and the possibility o a lie which is other and larger than our own, yet which is most truly our own. For, to be ourselves, we must be more than ourselves. What we call love is, in truth . . . the losing o our individual selves to gain a larger sel.
—John Caird
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He who oats with the current, who does not guide himsel according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions—such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead o a living and moving being—an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-lie is a slave o his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant o the air.
—Henri-Frederic Amiel
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What did you do today to receive your instruction?
—Louis Pasteur
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For the powers o our mind, lie, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise beyond them. But still, mental man can open to what is beyond him and call down a Supramental Light, Truth, and Power to work in him and do what the mind cannot do. I mind cannot by eort become what is beyond mind, Supermind can descend and transorm mind into its own substance.
—Sri Aurobindo
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Do not be bewildered by the suraces: in the depths all becomes law.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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The greatest and most important problems o lie are all, in a sense, insoluble. . . . They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
—Carl Jung
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He who has gotten rid o the disease o “tomorrow” has a chance o achieving what he is here or.
—G. I. Gurdjie
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says “I.” And in each case it seems to be taken or granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
—P. D. Ouspensky
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We loosely talk o Sel-realization, or lack o a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit o regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.
—Ramana Maharshi
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You have a right not to be negative.
—Maurice Nicoll
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One drop o eternity is o greater weight than a vast ocean o fnite things.
—Karl Barth
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True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. I you know how to think, i you really have that capacity, then you are a ree human being—ree o dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies—and thereore you can fnd out what religion is.
—J. Krishnamurti
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Even i our eorts o attention seem or years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will ood the soul.
—Simone Weil
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This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid o the sel but in realizing the act that there is no such existence rom the frst.
—Thomas Merton
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Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
—Vernon Howard
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