"The wound is the place where the Light enters you"
Request: A quote from one of Rumi's poems.
Quotes
“Only truth in all of its expressions, liberates”
Quote from Sri Prem Baba's Love and Be Free. By request.
"Appearance is not in accord with essence"
Request: Doc - Book of Slides #37
"Think of suffering as being washed" -- Hafez
Request: This quote brings me much solace, but I have always wondered about its LoC. There is a risk that my spiritual ego internalises this as "suffering is good" so I would welcome some more context on the level this understanding is realised!
"We are spiritual beings having a human experience"
Request: I hear this a lot and am just curious what it would calibrate at.
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"
Priority request: quote by Abraham Lincoln.
"Whatever my defects or imperfections, I accept myself unreservedly and completely"
Request: It's from Nathaniel Branden's book "Six Pillars of Self Esteem". He advises one to look in the mirror and say this to themselves very slowly in order to improve self esteem.
"Peace is happiness at rest, happiness is peace in motion"
Request: Rupert Spira saying.
"At home, you get to know the world, by traveling, yourself..."
"...because at home the weight falls on you, on the road it falls on the world, and it always remains unknown what you are looking at" --Béla Hamvas. Priority request.
"the female body is polluted; it is not a fit vessel for the Dharma"
Request: A quote from the Lotus Sutra (cal. 780 TvF), chapter XII.
a Jeff Foster quote on change
"Great healing begins when we align with the universe exactly as it is, yet hold in our hearts the way we know it can be, and we simply stop comparing the two." Priority request.
"Release the Heaven in your heart"
Request: My grandpa's favorite saying. Never met him because he passed away in a car crash right before I was born.
"The size of the man is the size of his problems"
Similar to and calibrating the same: “You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.” ― Adlai E. Stevenson
“Not all who wander are lost”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Riddle of Strider, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
"You will never make your life perfect...
...only you will realize that it is already perfect."