"We are punished by our sins, not for them"
Request: Quote from Elbert Hubbard.
Quotes
"Divinity emanates as consciousness/awareness”
Request: From Discovery of the Presence of God, page 37.
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you"
Request: A quote from one of Rumi's poems.
“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.
"If you have not accepted the past, you have not accepted the present"
Sri Prem Baba quote from his book From Suffering to Joy.
"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.
"spiritual progress is the result of God's grace and not the result of one's personal endeavors"
Request: [quote] from The Eye of the I, by David R. Hawkins.
"Life is brutal. But it’s also beautiful. Brutiful, I call it..."
"...Life’s brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly that they can’t be separated. Reject the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace both, and I live well and hard and real" -- Glennon Doyle
"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.
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength”
Quote from Sigmund Freud.