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Spiritual Quotes

Shaykamuni Buddha 563-483 BC

Do not believe what you have heard.
Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations.
Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times.
Do not believe because the written statements came from some old sage.
Do not believe in conjecture.
Do not believe in authority or teachers or elders.
But after careful observation and analysis,
When it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all.
Then accept it and live by it.  

If people live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If people live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If people live with ridicule, they learn to be shy.
If people live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If people live with tolerance, they learn to be patient.
If people live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If people live with praise, they learn to appreciate.
If people live with fairness, they learn justice.
If people live with security, they learn to trust.
If people live with approval and friendship, they learn to find love in the world.

You are what you think and feel. You become everything you’ve thought and felt.

Dali Lama

Love and compassion are not based on something appearing beautiful or nice, but on the fact that the other person, just like oneself, wants happiness and wants to overcome suffering. On this basis, we feel a sense of responsibility, a sense of closeness toward that being. That is true compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Great acts are small acts with great love.

Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

The earth can produce enough to satisfy everyone’s needs, but not everyone’s greed.

You are what you do. I don’t have a message. My message is my life.

Yogananda

Live each moment complete and the future will take car of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each instant.

An earthly warrior seeks sovereignty over the soil and riches, while a spiritual master winds a greater dominion over his soul.

Attachment lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

Even saints who engage in no outward work bestow, through their hearts hold vibrations, more precious benefits on the world than can be given my most strenuous activities of unenlightened men. The great ones, each in his own way and often against bitter oppositions, strive selflessly to inspire and uplift their fellows.

Have compassion for all paths. The reconciliation of opposites satisfies heart and head. Devotion and wisdom are essentially one.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

Two wrongs don’t make one right. However two rights help to heal one wrong.

Every good cause, not matter how small or unseen, is always rewarded.

Don’t model your actions to the anticipation of praise or criticism. If people can build you up, they can tear you down. 

Seek your purpose, your truth, and a light will shine within you.

Excitement and pleasure are hypnotic states that provide escape. Attachment to them lends an imaginary halo of attractiveness to the object of desire.

Muhammad Ali

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Others

When we do not accept or follow, but question, investigate, penetrate, there is an insight out of which comes creativity. Krishnamurti

If you are steadfast in abstaining from thoughts of harming others, all living creatures will cease to feel animosity in your presence. Pantagilini

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. Einstein

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. The Little Prince

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

Before enlightenment, chopping wood, carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood, carrying water. Lao-Tsu

If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life. Confucius

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