Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love.
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
Grow as the flower grows, unconsciously, but eagerly anxious to open its soul to the air.
Mabel Collins, Light on the Path
Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower in civic virtue. Man is a soul, not an institution; his inner reforms alone can lend permanence to outer ones.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
The darkness of centuries is dispersed at once as soon as a light is brought into the room.
Sri Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
Whoso shall offer Me in faith and love A leaf, a flower, a fruit, water poured forth, That offering I accept, lovingly made With pious will.
Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial
If a piece of wood became as aware of the nearness of God as an archangel is, the piece of wood would be as happy as an archangel.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
Be here now.
Ram Dass, Be Here Now
…mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us.
Teresa of Ávila, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
The breeze of His grace is blowing night and day over thy head. Unfurl the sails of thy boat (mind) if thou wantest to make rapid progress through the ocean of life.
Sri Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
Teresa of Ávila, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let right deeds be Thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them. And live in action! Labour! Make thine acts Thy piety, casting all self aside…
Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial
Let thy Soul lend its ear to every cry of pain like as the lotus bares its heart to drink the morning sun.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware of.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and presence of God.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Joy is the leviathan power resident in man.
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Résumé: Practice Book for the Twelve Chapters in High Mysticism
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By, and Other Tales
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi