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quotes[0]='Feed everyone.  Meditate everywhere.<i>-Neem Karoli Baba</i>'

quotes[1]='Whether you think you can or whether you think you can\'t, you\'re right! <i>-Henry Ford</i>'

quotes[2]='I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. <i>-Henry David Thoreau</i>'

quotes[3]='[The wisest person, or <i>gnani</i>]...suffers with those who suffer. The event itself is of little importance, but he is full of compassion for the suffering being, whether alive or dead, in the body or out of it. After all, love and compassion are his very nature. He is one with all that lives and love is that oneness in action. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.175'

quotes[4]='No worry, no hurry, no sorry. <br><i>-wise words from a Hindu monk at an monastery on Kauai, HI, with Angel, 2003</i>'

quotes[5]='Most of the people in the world just do not know that there is reality which can be found and experienced in consciousness [by going within,by being fully present]. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT</i>, p.174'

quotes[6]='Need the person have any designs of its own? The life of which it is an expression will guide it. Once you realize that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not really itself, you cease to fret and worry. You agree to be guided from within adn life becomes a journey into the unknown. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.31'

quotes[7]='The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. <i>-Plutarch</i>'

quotes[8]='Knowledge is but a memory, a pattern of thought, a mental habit. All these are motivated by pleasure and pain. It is because you are goaded by pleasure and pain that you are in search of knowledge. Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You <i>are</i> yourself, and no reason is needed. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.137'

quotes[9]='As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. <br><i>-Andrew Carnegie</i>'

quotes[10]='Primarily, <i>ahimsa</i> [nonviolence] means what it says: \'Don\'t hurt\'.  It is not doing good that comes first, but ceasing to hurt, not adding to suffering. Pleasing others is not <i>ahimsa</i>. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT, </i>p.139'

quotes[11]='Find yourself first, and endless blessings will follow. Nothing profits the world as much as the abandoning of profits. A man who no longer thinks in terms of loss and gain is the truly non-violent man, for he is beyond all conflict. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT, </i>, p.139'

quotes[12]='Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. <i>-Andre Gide</i>'

quotes[13]='The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. <i>-Baltasar Gracian</i>'

quotes[14]='Your high opinion of me is your opinion only. Any moment you may change it. Why attach importance to opinions, even your own? <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.4'

quotes[15]='Success is moving from failure to failure with enthusiasm. <br><i>-Winston Churchill</i>'

quotes[16]='It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT, </i>p.25'

quotes[17]='I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts. <i>-Horace Mann</i>'

quotes[18]='What in your case occupies the entire field of consciousness, is a mere speck in mine [speaking of identifying oneself as one\'s thoughts rather than as one with all life]. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.15'

quotes[19]='To be nothing, to have nothing, to keep nothing for oneself is the greatest gift, the highest generosity. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT</i>, p.102'

quotes[20]='One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. <i>-John Wanamaker</i>'

quotes[21]='He who knows himself has no doubts about it. Nor does he care whetehr others recognize his state or not. Rare is the realized man who discloses his realization and fortunate are those who have met him, for he does it for their abiding welfare. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.109'

quotes[24]='The dreams are not equal, but the dreamer is one. I am the insect. I am the poet - in dream. But in reality I am neither. I am beyond all dreams. I am the light in which all dreams appear and disappear. I am both inside and outside the dream. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.111'

quotes[25]='It is the earnestness that liberates and not the theory. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i> p.113'

quotes[24]='What is will but steadiness of heart and mind. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,</i> p.114'

quotes[25]='All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj</i>'

quotes[26]='Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT,</i>p.7'

quotes[27]='Mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT</i>, p.8'

quotes[28]='God does not make mistakes [speaking of GLBT people]. <br><i>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati</i>'

quotes[29]='What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. <i>-Thaddeus Golas</i>'

quotes[30]='To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. <br><i>-Bruce Lee</i>'

quotes[31]='The Beauty of Christ is to just totally Love.  <br><i>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati</i>'

quotes[32]='Give up the juice that you get out of positionality, then you naturally let it go. <br><i>-David R. Hawkins</i>'

quotes[33]='Greed, desire, and wantingness disappear when you realize the innate Beauty of all life. <br><i>-David R. Hawkins</i>'

quotes[34]='Life serving life, out of love of life...then all life becomes equally valuable. <br><i>David R. Hawkins</i>'

quotes[35]='That which is linear and has form is transitory. This does NOT mean to devalue it because it is linear. This is the same mistake as to value it only because it is linear. <br><i>-David R. Hawkins</i>'

quotes[36]='In our society infatuation is sold as love...It\'s madness, mental illness...all the animals humping away. <br><i>-David R. Hawkins</i>'

quotes[37]='Have patience with me and above all have patience with yourself, for you are your only obstacle. The way leads through yourself beyond yourself. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj</i>'

quotes[38]='What is the root of pain? Ignorance of yourself. What is the root of desire? The urge to find yourself. All creation toils for its self adn will not rest until it returns to it.<br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj</i>'

quotes[39]='Those who have true faith in Him will see Him everywhere and at all times. All happens according to your faith and your faith is the shape of your desire. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj</i>'

quotes[40]='Cruelty lies in the motive, not in the fact. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj</i>'

quotes[41]='I am free from all description and identification.  Whatever you may hear, see, or think of, I am not that. I am free from being a precept, or a concept. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj</i>'

quotes[42]='When you have understood that all existence, in separation and limitation, is painful, and when you are willing and able to live integrally, in oneness with all life, as pure being, you have gone beyond all need of help. <br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That,</i> p.140'

quotes[43]='You can help another by precept and example and, above all, by your being.<br><i>-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That,</i> p.140'

quotes[44]='Your path is unique. In order for it to guide you unfailingly, you must be true to your own heart. Develop discernment and discrimination. Be strong in the ways of love and you will never fail.<br><i>-Zen Master.</i>'

quotes[45]='Your duty is to be, not to be this or that. <br><i>-Ramana Maharshi</i>'

quotes[46]='Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it. <br><i>-Lao Tzu</i>'

quotes[47]='Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being,<br>something helpless that wants help from us.<br><i>-Rainer Maria Rilke</i>'

quotes[48]='If you are honest and sincere people might take advantage of you. Be honest and sincere anyway.<br><i>Mother Theresa</i>'

quotes[49]='Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love.  Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism.  It is the active outpouring of one\'s whole being into the being of another. <br><i>-Martin Luther King, Jr. 1957</i>'

quotes[50]='Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.<br><i>- Neem Karoli Baba</i>'

quotes[51]='When the heart gets softer by being closer to God, one begins to feel love everywhere. Animals, trees, plants, people, and a blade of grass all shower love. It is a very good stage in Bhakti Yoga. I wish you deep, deep in love of God. I wish you to dissolve in God.<br><i>-Baba Hari Dass, Silence Speaks,</i> p.7'

quotes[52]='The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.<br><i>-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,</i> p.37'

quotes[53]='Have you peace, the quiet urge that reveals your power?...Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?<br><i>-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,</i> p.40'

quotes[54]='...you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed. Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast.<br><i>-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,</i> p.41'

quotes[55]='Who shall command the skylark not to sing?<br><i>-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,</i> p. 56'

quotes[56]='And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.  It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, but rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.<br><i>-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,</i> p.90'

quotes[57]='We don\'t have time to wait to believe that we are Divine. The world is a mess, and it needs our care.<br>-Swami Anjani, of Kashi Florida</i>'

quotes[58]='“Christ has no body now but yours / No hands, no feet on earth but yours / Yours are the eyes through which He looks with compassion on this world / Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”  <br>Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)'

quotes[59]='this secret union takes place in the deepest centre of the soul, which must be where God Himself dwells, and I do not think there is any need of a door by which to enter it. I say there is no need of a door because all that has so far been described seems to have come through the medium of the senses and faculties… But what passes in the union of the Spiritual Marriage is very different. The Lord appears in the centre of the soul, not through an imaginary, but through an intellectual vision (although this is a subtler one that that already mentioned), just as He appeared to the Apostles, without entering through the door, when He said to them: "Pax vobis" {cf. John 20:19,21}. This instantaneous communication of God to the soul is so great a secret and so sublime a favour, and such delight is felt by the soul, that I do not know with what to compare it, beyond saying that the Lord is pleased to manifest to the soul at that moment the glory that is in Heaven, in a sublimer manner than is possible through any vision or spiritual consolation. It is impossible to say more than that, as far as one can understand, the soul (I mean the spirit of this soul) is made one with God, Who, being likewise a Spirit, has been pleased to reveal the love that He has for us by showing to certain persons the extent of that love, so that we may praise His greatness. For He has been pleased to unite Himself with His creature in such a way that they have become like two who cannot be separated from one another: even so He will not separate Himself from her.<br>-Saint Teresa of Avila, quoted in <i>Interior Castle</i> by E. Allison Peers, p.213'

quotes[60]='The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.<br><i>— William James</i>'

quotes[61]='Guan Yin is "she who hears the screams of the world."  She is the goddess of compassion, and she serves everyone.  May you meditate upon the depths of her compassion today.'

quotes[62]='...expanded consciousness can only come through expanded nothingness. This state is produced by surrendering the tensions that bind and restrict our physical mechanism from expressing the power of creation. It is God flowing through us and showing us how we are connected to Him as the expression of higher creative will and a deeper sense of surrender.<br>-<i>Swami Rudrananda, or Rudi (see <a href="http://www.yoga.cc">www.yoga.cc</a>)</i>'

quotes[63]='As the shards and pieces of life\'s mirror pass, the bright glints of light catch our eye, we are drawn to them, the reflections that are the facets of our own bright soul akritima-aham-vimarsha . Piece them back together for understanding, for freedom. See your Self.<br><i>-PRATYABHIJNAAHRDAYAM</i>'
 
quotes[64]='Feel the peaceful glow of the Father within. He is hiding in every thought, in every cell, in everything within you.<br>~Paramahansa Yogananda;'

quotes[65]='Seek the unconditioned, indestructible pure Bliss within yourself...You will then be in a position to appreciate God\'s creation rightly.<br>- Paramahansa Yogananda'
  
quotes[66]='The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.<br>- Swami Vivekananda'

quotes[67]='Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.<br>- Swami Vivekananda'

quotes[68]='We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.&nbsp; Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;- Swami Vivekananda&lt;/i&gt;'

quotes[69]='The same stream of life that runs through the world / runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure. / It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust / of the earth into numberless waves of flowers.<br>- Rabindranath Tagore'

quotes[70]='The only thing that causes distress, suffering and misery in you is the false belief that you are the one trying to do something about the distress, the suffering and the misery in you or in the world. Nothing you are doing is a problem. Nothing you are doing is causing trouble. The only thing that causes the trouble is your belief that you are the one doing all of that. Therefore, the only solution is to find out directly what you are. This is the only thing that will eradicate the false belief, which is truly the only problem. Self-inquiry will not make of you anything that you are not already, but it will, over time, destroy the false belief that you are this body, this mind, this story. That false belief is the root cause of all human suffering whatsoever.<br>- John Sherman'

quotes[71]='You are the whole ocean. Why send out for a sip of dew?<br>- Rumi'

quotes[72]='I am without form, without limit, beyond space, beyond time, I am in everything, Everything is Me, I am the bliss of the universe, Everything Am I.<br><i>~Ram Tirtha</i>'

quotes[73]='God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.<br><i>- Plotinus</i>'

quotes[74]='This is not my body, it is the temple of God; This is not my heart, it is the altar of God.<br><i>- Hazrat Inayat Khan</i>'

quotes[75]='Not I, but the Father within me does these things.<br><i>~ Jesus</i>'

quotes[76]='Whosoever sees anything at all is looking into the eyes of the Only One Who Is.<br><i>~ Jesus</i>'

quotes[77]='Every time we walk down the street, we are preceded by hosts of angels singing, Make way, Make way, Make way for the image of God.<br><i>- Hasidic saying</i>'

quotes[78]='God expects but one thing of you: that you should come out of yourself and let God be God in you.<br><i>- Meister Eckhart</i>'

quotes[79]='All beings are words of God, His music, His art.<br><i>- Meister Eckhart</i>'

quotes[80]='When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.<br><i>- A Course in Miracles</i>'

quotes[81]='The divine assails us, penetrates us, and moulds us. We imagined it as distant and inassessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.<br><i>- Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu</i>'
 
quotes[82]='...nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.<br><i>- Teilhard de Chardin</i>'

quotes[83]='If thou know thine own existence, then thou knowest God; and if not, then not.<br><i>- Ibn Al-\'Arabi</i>' 

quotes[84]='Jnanis [those who have realized the Absolute through knowledge and wisdom and discrimination] are mindless. To Jnanis, all are the same. They have no slumber, no dreams, nor sleep. They are always in sleep. The sun and the moon are the same to them. To them, it is always sunrise. The glass of a chimney lamp, when covered with carbon, is not transparent. Similarly, the carbon of the mind should be removed.<br>- Swami Rudrananda, The Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 1'

quotes[85]='The sun-light is reflected in the salt water of the sea. It is also reflected in the clear water of a tank at the top of a hill.<br>- Swami Rudrananda, Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 1, #14'

quotes[86]='If food is prepared in a gold vessel, the dog eats it. If it is prepared in an earthen vessel, then also the dog eats it.<br>- Swami Rudrananda, Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 1 #13'

quotes[87]='Just as camphor is consumed by the flames of fire, so also, mind must be consumed by soulfire.<br>- Swami Rudrananda, The Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 4'

quotes[88]='Raja Yoga is the place of indivisible monism. If you enter the ONE, you lose sight of the MANY.<br>- Swami Rudrananda, The Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 33'

quotes[89]='...to a Jnani, there is no Ajnani; to an Ajnani, there is no Jnani. If all the children beat a mother, she does not throw them away. [note: jnana=one who has attained Self-Realization by contemplation  & discrimination; ajnani = ignorant person who does not realize his/her true nature yet, or ignorance in general]. <br>- Swami Rudrananda, The Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 34'

quotes[90]='A Guru (spiritual teacher) will lead any sort of man from a thorny path to the royal road. Such preceptors are...Mind...and secondary preceptor [physical teacher]... The guru who exists in the heart of all beings is the Jagad-Guru (universal preceptor)...You must not leave the feet of a guru. Your mind should not flicker like the reflection of the sun in the shaking water.<br>-Swami Rudrananda, The Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 27 & 35'

quotes[91]='The sea water is boundless; the tank water has a boundary. Our mind must be like the tank water. Mind is the cause of good and evil. A man may be good and bad according to his good or bad thoughts. God does not do good or evil to any man. The reason is, intelligence and knowledge are the divine faculties in man. A man protected by good thoughts, cannot be harmed even by a cannon shot.<br>-Swami Rudrananda, The Chidakasha Gita, Lesson 36'

quotes[92]='There is nothing like "this one" has more and another has less. The power of thought, the ears, the nose, the hand, the eye, etc. are the same to all.<br>-Swami Rudrananda, The Chidakashi Gita, Lesson 39'

quotes[93]='"Your life is a dream within the mighty Dream of God which is the Universe." <br>-Meher Baba'

quotes[94]='Then she said, "If darkness hides the trees and flowers from our eyes, it will not hide love from our  hearts."<br>-Kahlil Gibran, <i>The Broken Wings</i>,p.49'

quotes[95]='Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman. The revolutions that shed so much blood and turned men\'s minds toward liberty were the idea of one man who lived in the midst of thousands of men. The devastating wars which destroyed empires were a thought that existed in the mind of an individual. The supreme teachings that changed the course of humanity were the ideas of a man whose genius separated him from his environment. A single thought built the Pyramids, founded the glory of Islam, and caused the burning of the library at Alexandria. One thought will come to you at night which will elevate you to glory or lead you to the asylum.<br>-Kahlil Gibran, <i>The Broken Wings</i>, p.49-50'

quotes[96]='The scent of flowers mingled with the breeze as we came into the garden and sat silently on a bench near a jasmine tree, listening to the breathing of sleeping nature, while in the blue sky the eyes of heaven witnessed our drama.<br>-Kahlil Gibran, <i>The Broken Wings</i>, p.50'

quotes[97]='An hour passed, every minute of which was a year of love. The silence of the night, moonlight, flowers, and trees made us forget all reality except love...<br>-Kahlil Gibran, <i>The Broken Wings</i>, p.54'

quotes[98]='An old man\'s tear is more potent than that of a young man because it is the residuum of life in his weakening body. A young man\'s tear is like a drop of dew on the leaf of a rose, while that of an old man is like a yellow leaf which falls with the wind at the approach of winter.<br>-Kahlil Gibran, <i>The Broken Wings</i>, p.57'

quotes[99]='At the place where there is running water, there can be no mud; the place is quite clean. Ignorance (Ajnana) is mud; the current of water is Bhakti [love, devotion] and Jnana [wisdom].<br>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 43'

quotes[100]='It is not Bhakti [love/devotion] to give a man some money or to give him a meal as charity. Bhakti is universal love. Seeing God, in all beings, without the least idea of duality, is Bhakti.<br>- Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 44'

quotes[101]='To a good man, every man is good; everything is good. A man can be good by his own exertion.<br>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>'

quotes[102]='The sense of equality is the greatest thing in this world. People go mad after shadows; very few are mad after the invisible (the subtle). True madness is very rare...Other people run mad after sixteen things in a ghatika (twenty-four minutes). "I want this", "I want that", "This is different", "That is different", such is there mad talk. Entertaining various motives is madness. Fickleness of mind is madness. Greatness is madness. Practicing and seeing the reality is the opposite kind of madness. Liberation from birth and death is Divine madness. Those who have not realized the truth are mad after the gross. Everyone has one sort of madness or another.<br>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 51'

quotes[103]='It is not the body that exists nor disappears. He is the ONE who is the supreme doer. It is the breath that man brings here at birth and it is the breath that man takes with him when he leaves this world. Property and fame are here only. There, everything is one.<br>-Swami Rudrananda<i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 52'

quotes[104]='When SAT [being] unites with CHIT [consciousness, wisdom], Ananda [bliss] is the result.<br>-Swami Rudrananda<i>, Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 53'
 
quotes[105]='I looked upon slumbering Nature, and with deep reflection discovered the reality of a vast and infinite thing - something no power could demand, influence acquire, or riches purchase. Nor could it be effaced by the tears of time or deadened by sorrow...It is something that gathers strength with patience, grows despite obstacles, warms in winter, flourishes in spring, casts a breeze in summer, and bears fruit in autums - I found Love.<br>-Kahlil Gibran,<i> Tears and Laughter</i>, p.49-50'

quotes[106]='Bhakti [love/devotion to God] in the beginning, is selfish. After-wards, there is no selfishness in it. When a man attains perfection, the whole universe becomes to him, his guru.<br>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 63'

quotes[107]='What is called "Hatha Yoga" is selfishness. In Hatha yoga a man seeks his own goodness. He seeks fame; he can stop the sunrise of tomorrow; he can create a mountain of gold. To say "I am Brahma" is not just. "Thou (O God!) art ALL; ALL art thou", we must say. A yogi is one who thinks the whole universe to be a yogi. He should regard all as himself.<br>-Swami Rudrananda,<i> Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 64'

quotes[108]='If a man goes to a forest and there lives in a cave, it is just like a beast in a cave. Even the milestones are better than such a man because by the milestones, we can count the distance in miles. Such people are of no use whatsoever. A thoughtful man should gradually go on renouncing the world. When a man eats food, it is for his own benefit. others are not benefitted by it. It is not enough if we leave darkness. We must always live in the light. If we have a light on a dark path, we have no fear. There is fear in walking in darkness.<br>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 65'

quotes[109]='If you perform tapas [spiritual disciplines] for thousands of years with the desire for "results", it is of no avail. But if you perform tapas for one ghatika (twenty-four minutes) without any desire for "fruits", you will see ALL in God and God in ALL.<i>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 66'

quotes[110]='...No man should think he is the doer...[God is the doer]<br>-Swami Rudrananda,<i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 67'

quotes[111]='A ripe fruit is very sweet to the taste. The same fruit when it is unripe is astringent. Both are produced by the same tree. The difference between the two is caused by time. As soon as a coconut is planted in the ground, it does not grow into a plant. First, it sprouts, then it becomes a plant and finally it becomes a tree. A tender coconut tree can be easily plucked from the ground. But a fully grown coconut tree cannot be easily plucked. So also, our mind must be unaffected, whatever people say to us or whatever they say about us; the mind must always be under our control. This is what a man must accomplish in life. This must be "the one object" in life. This a man must accomplish even if his head is to be struck off. We should give a blow with the mind itself, not with a cane or a hand or something...<br>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 74'

quotes[112]='Swami is he who has united the Chit [consciousness] with Sat [being, presence]. Upadhi means the "tree of peace." We must take shelter under this "tree of peace".<br>-Swami Rudrananda, <i>Chidakasha Gita</i>, Lesson 77'

quotes[113]='"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, And that which loves to give and not to receive."<br>-Kahlil Gibran,<i>Tears and Laughter</i>, p.69'

quotes[114]='...the Sufi aspires to become "featureless and formless," to be so lost in God that only He remains. But there are certain qualities that belong to these travellers on the path of love.<br>Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, <i>Travelling The Path of Love</i>, p.1 [Note: Sufism is a spiritual tradition; here, I include this quote to refer more generally to anyone who loves "purity of heart" for the word "Sufi" derives from "Safa" which means "purity of heart."]'

quotes[115]='When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself.<br>-Abu Sa\'id ibn Abi-L-Khayr, <br>quoted in <i>Travelling The Path of Love</i>, p.3'

quotes[116]='The Sufi is absent from himself and present with God.<br>Hujwiri, quoted in <i>Travelling The Path of Love</i>, p. 3 [Note: Sufism is a spiritual tradition; here, I include this quote to refer more generally to anyone who loves "purity of heart" for the word "Sufi" derives from "Safa" which means "purity of heart."]'

quotes[117]='To be a Sufi means to abide continuously with God and to be at peace with men.<br>-Al-Ghazzali, quoted in <i>Travelling the Path of Love</i>, p. 4 [Note: Sufism is a spiritual tradition; here, I include this quote to refer more generally to anyone who loves "purity of heart" for the word "Sufi" derives from "Safa" which means "purity of heart."]'

quotes[118]='The Sufi is like the earth, on which every foul thing is thrown and from which fair things come forth.<br>-Al-Junayd, quoted in <i>Travelling the Path of Love</i>, p. 6 [Note: Sufism is a spiritual tradition; here, I include this quote to refer more generally to anyone who loves "purity of heart" for the word "Sufi" derives from "Safa" which means "purity of heart."]'

quotes[119]='One of the attributes of the saint is that he has no fear, for fear is anticipating some disagreeable event that might come or expecting some disagreeable event that might come or expecting that something beloved might pass away in the future. The saint is concerned only with the present moment. He has no future to fear.<br>-Traditional'

quotes[120]='Whatever you have in your mind - forget it; whatever you have in your hand - give it; whatever is to be your fate - face it!<br>-Abu Sa\'id Ibn Abi-L-Khayr'

quotes[121]='"Dervishes" is a term which refers to holy poverty: "the poor man is not he whose hand is empty of provisions, but he whose nature is empty of desires.<br>Hujwiri, quoted in <i>Travelling The Path of Love, </i> p.8'

quotes[122]='Sufism means that you possess nothing and nothing possesses you.<br>-Sumnun, quoted in <i>Travelling The Path of Love, </i> p.9 [Note: Sufism is a spiritual tradition; here, I include this quote to refer more generally to anyone who loves "purity of heart" for the word "Sufi" derives from "Safa" which means "purity of heart."]'

quotes[123]=' Forget all you\'ve heard and clutch what you see / At sunrise what use is Saturn to thee?<br>-Abu Hamid Al Ghazzali'

quotes[124]='I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you / Which shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theater, / The lights are extinguished, for the scene to be changed / With a hollow rumble of wings, with movement of darkness on darkness, / And we know that the hills and the trees, the distant panorama / And the bold imposing facade are all being rolled away -- / Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations / And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence / And you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen / Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about / Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing -- / I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope / For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love / For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith / But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. / Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: / So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.<br>-TS Eliot, from <i>East Coker</i>'

quotes[125]='When matter dissolves in the Ocean / the particles glow. As who I am now / melts in a candleflame, identity / becomes one vast motion. <br>-Rumi, tr. in <i>This Longing</i>, p.xi [speaking of his longing for the Teacher]'

quotes[126]='Rumi says your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your <i>nafs</i> or false ego...every inclination which springs from disregard of love, harmony, and beauty and which is concerned  with oneself and unconcerned with all others is the false ego. The enemy, Rumi says, develops. The more it is fed, the stronger it becomes to fight with you...There comes a day when man is the slave of this enemy which is hidden within himself. The worst position is to have an enemy one does not know...This enemy breathes "I." Its breath is always calling out, "I, separate from you, separate from others, separate from everybody...I am a separate being." Remember that no man is without it. The day this enemy is found and erased, or shed and crucified, that day the real "I" is found. But this "I" is a different "I." This "I" means you and I and everybody; it is an all "I." <br>-Hazrat Inayat Khan, speaking of Rumi\'s view on false ego, quoted in <i>This Longing</i>, tr. by Barks and Moyne, p. xiv'
quotes[127]='Whoever saw such drunkards? / Barrels broken open, the ground and starry ceiling soaked. And look, / this full glass in my hand!<br>-Rumi, <i>Unseen Rain</i> p 33 [speaking of people\'s ecstatic love for the Divine'

quotes[128]='The world is nailed shut in night, waiting for the Sun to come up. And here it is, hidden in a speck of dirt!<br>- Rumi, quoted in <i>This Longing</i>, p. xviii, tr. by Coleman Barks & John Moyne'

quotes[129]='A certain young man was asking around, "I need to find a wise person. I have a problem." A bystander said, "There\'s no one with intelligence in our town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick-horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night-sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child\'s play"..."What is this playing you do? Why do you hide your intelligence so?" "The people here want to put me in charge. They want me to be Judge, Magistrate, and Interpreter of all the texts. The Knowing I have doesn\'t want that. It wants to enjoy itself. I am a plantation of sugarcane, and at the same time I\'m eating the sweetness." Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It\'s a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul. Robust and energetic before a responsive crowd, it slumps when no one is there. The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish. Your face will turn rosy with illumination like the redbud flowers.<br>- Rumi, quoted in <i>This Longing</i>, tr. by Barks & Moyne, p. 3-5'

quotes[130]='The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.<br>-Arabic Proverb'

quotes[131]='Nothing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside yourself can give you peace.<br>-A Course in Miracles'

quotes[132]='We meet at this appointed time, but the text says, <i>Lovers pray constantly.</i> Once a day, once a week, five times an hour, is not enough. Fish like we are need the ocean around us!" <br>-Rumi, from "A Mouse and a Frog," quoted in <i>This Longing</i>, p.11, tr. by Barks & Moyne'

quotes[133]='The Truth is always true; it is available to everyone. Nobody owns it, nobody sells it...Truth is beyond opinion or judgment. Truth does not try to promote itself. That which is power transforms things as a consequence of that which it is, not that which it does or says. It\'s merely an expression of its essence. When you experience the joy of life, the experience of life is joyful. It grows by attraction rather than promotion. It is not operational; it just is. Non-sentimental. Non-authoritarian. Non-egoistic. Educational. Free-standing. Natural."<br>-David R. Hawkins, April 2006, "Perception Vs Essence" talk'

quotes[134]='"The sign is in the face." You can look at an orchard and tell if it rained last night. That freshness is the sign.<br>-Rumi, from "The Long String," <i>This Longing</i>, tr. by Barks & Moyne, p.13'

quotes[135]='A sea-cow, a dugong, finds a special pearl and brings it up on land at night. By the light it gives off the dugong can graze on hyacinths and lilies. The excrement of the dugong is precious ambergris because it eats such beauty. Anyone who feeds on Majesty becomes eloquent. The bee, from mystic inspiration, fills its rooms with honey.<br>-Rumi, from "The Force of Friendship," in <i>This Longing</i>, tr. by Barks & Moyne, p.17'

quotes[136]='Finally the autumn rains, all-night gales of soaking rain as I lie warm as toast in my sleeping bag and the mornings open cold wild fall days with high wind, racing fogs, racing clouds, sudden bright sun, pristine light on hill patches and my fire crackling as I exult and sing at the top of my voice.<br>-Jack Kerouac, <i>Lonesome Traveler</i>, p.131'

quotes[137]='What strange sweet thoughts come to you in the mountain solitudes! One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny meek little childish look abashes their eyes...lambies all over the world. For when you realize that God is Everything, you know that you\'ve got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the ultimate sense it was neither  good or bad, it was just WHAT WAS, that is, what was made to appear.<br>-Jack Kerouac, <i>Lonesome Traveler</i>, p.132'

quotes[138]='...silence itself is the sound of diamonds which can cut through anything, the sound of Holy Emptiness, the sound of extinction and bliss, that graveyard silence which is like the silence of an infant\'s smile, the sound of eternity, of the blessedness surely to be believed, the sound of nothing-ever-happened-except-God...\'Ts only the Golden Eternity of God\'s Mind so practice kindness and sympathy, remember that men are not responsible themselves as men for their ignorance and unkindness, they should be pitied, God does pity it, because who says anything about anything since everything is just what it is, free of interpretations...one caterpillar, a thousand hairs of God. So know constantly that this is only you, God, empty and awake and eternally free as the unnumerable atoms of emptiness everywhere.<br>-Jack Kerouac, <i>Lonesome Traveler</i>, p.133'

quotes[139]='one caterpillar, a thousand hairs of God...so know constantly that this is only you, God, empty and awake and eternally free as the unnumerable atoms of emptiness everywhere.<br>-Jack Kerouac, <i>Lonesome Traveler</i>, p.133'

quotes[140]='The one who has looked at the sun and then looks at himself, finds he is filled with nothing else but rays of the sun and exclaims, "I am the sun."<br>-Al-Hallaj,<br>quoted in Travelling The Path of Love, Vaughan-Lee, p. 206'

quotes[141]='When the lover is annihilated in Love his love becomes one with the Love of the Beloved, and then there is no bird and no wings, and his flight and love to God are by God\'s love to him.<br>-Najm Al-Din Kubra,<br>quoted in <i>Travelling The Path of Love</i>, Vaughan-Lee, p.201'

quotes[142]='Love has come and it flows like blood beneath my skin, through my veins. It has emptied me of my self and filled me with the Beloved. The Beloved has penetrated every cell of my body. Of myself there remains only a name, everything else is Him.<br>-Rumi,<br>quoted in <i>Travelling The Path of Love</i>, p. 200'

quotes[143]='First there must be action and knowledge, so that you realize that you know nothing and you are nobody. It is no easy thing to attain this realization...This is a gift from God...<br>-Abu Sa\'id Ibn Abi-L-Khayr, <br>quoted in <i>Travelling the Path of Love</i>, Vaughan-Lee, p.190'

quotes[144]='"I"  AM THE  "I" / "I" come forth from the void into light, / "I" am the breath that nurtures life, / "I" am that emptiness, that hollowness beyond all consciousness, / The "I", the Id, the All. / "I" draw my bow of rainbows across the waters, / The continuum of minds with matters. / "I" am the incoming and outgoing of breath, / The invisible, untouchable breeze, / The undefinable atom of creation. / "I" am the "I".<br>-Kahuna prayer, Hawaii'

quotes[145]='I get energy from the Earth Itself. I feel that as long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. . . . I won\'t give up until the Earth gives up.<br>- Alice Walker quoted in The Sacred Impulse by James Conlon'

quotes[146]='In the film Good Will Hunting, the wise therapist says to Will, the young man who\'s hurting, &quot;Bad things draw our attention to the good things we\'ve overlooked."<br>-Therapist in Good Will Hunting'

quotes[147]='Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for the smile to come.<br>- His Holiness The Dalai Lama in The Path to Tranquility'

quotes[148]='The movement from hostility to hospitality is full of difficulties. Our society seems to be increasingly full of fearful, defensive, aggressive people anxiously clinging to their property and inclined to look at their surrounding world with suspicion, always expecting an enemy to suddenly appear, intrude, and do harm.&lt;br&gt;- Henri J. M. Nouwen in Ministry and Spirituality'

quotes[149]='Teach your mouth to speak what is in your heart.<br>- Abba Poemen in Desert Wisdom translated by Yushi Nomura'

quotes[150]='The winner sows hatred / Because the loser suffers. / Let go of winning and losing / And find joy.<br>- The Buddha in The Dhammapada rendered by Thomas Byrom'

quotes[151]='Rather than finding ourselves in everything, we are challenged daily to find everything in ourselves.<br>- Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening...To Practice This Thought: See the stranger, the street, the stream, and the sky in yourself.'

quotes[152]='Hospitality is essential to spiritual practice. It reminds you that you are part of a greater whole. . . . Putting others first puts you in the midst of life without the illusion of being the center of life.<br>- Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro in Minyan'

quotes[153]='Don\'t be afraid. Fear has tortured us throughout our lives. It\'s just the Ego talking, making up stories.<br>-Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek in Good Life, Good Death'

quotes[154]=' A tradition that derives from the kabbalah is to stay up without sleep during the whole night of Shavuot and study the Torah. . . . The mystics also tell us that studying during the night may bring the opening of the heavens and the receiving of revelation.<br>- Sara Shendelman and Dr. Avram Davis in Traditions'

quotes[155]='“Paradoxically, a group of humans becomes healing and converting only after its members have learned to stop trying to heal and convert. Community is a safe place precisely because no one is attempting to heal or convert you, to fix you, to change you. Instead, the members accept you as you are. You are free to be you. And being so free, you are free to discard defenses, masks, disguises; free to seek your own psychological and spiritual health; free to become your whole and holy self.”<br>- Scott Peck'

quotes[156]='You cannot live a God filled life if you do not give unconditional love to others.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[157]='Trying to stop the mind is like trying to stop a waterfall. Just acknowledge the thoughts and go on to watch and feel your breath coming in and out. You will be surprised how much wisdom si in the present moment.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[158]='Unbound yourself of past wounds by living in the moment.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[159]='Gratitude is the deepest commitment to life that one can give.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[160]='Silence shows you the path the wholeness. When you are silen you can behold your own dignity.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[161]='Always remember that fear is not strong enough to live in the same moment that is filled with awareness.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[162]='Humility is the fastest way to find the deepest faith. Know yourself and you will never judge another human being.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[163]='The greatest truth that there is is the truth of kindness, starting with being kind to yourself.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[164]='Be happy with who you are this moment. If you want to change, then be happy with that too.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[165]='One needs to give up the thought that the ego represents anything wiht root or form.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[166]='Meditation is the friction that lights the fire of one\'s heart.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[167]='Love is the warrior that conquers all.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[168]='Being aware of the breath brings one to the place of receiving all things of God.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati <a href="http://www.kashi.org>Kashi Ashram</a>'

quotes[169]='Watch your breath this moment. After a short while, breathe in the strength of love and compassion. Breathe out any darkness that you think you have within your being. Do this for a little while. See how the strength of love consumes all negativity.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, www.kashi.org'

quotes[170]='If you can find great possibilities in people, then you have found the heart of God.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, www.kashi.org'

quotes[171]='To love to serve is to be sorrowless.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru at Kashi Ashram'

quotes[172]='When you learn to use your grief to help others, you are helping yourself and the world.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru at Kashi Ashram'

quotes[173]='The ego will be destroyed as one goes toward the path of kindness.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[174]='It does not matter how you worship or who you worship just as long as your heart is filled with kindness and love.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[175]='The spirit in you is alive and filled with the ability to succeed in everything and anything.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[176]='Gove away your love freely and never look back to see who has taken it.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[177]='It is illusion that does not allow you to see your own beauty. It is illusion that brings about duality. Breath brings you into the moment. Awareness of the breath allows you to live there.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[178]='Desires of the world have the great ability to delude everyone into thinking that there is nothing else except what the eyes can see.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[179]='Silence is the key to becoming. Silence in action can be learned from meditation.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[180]='To live a full life you must know that there are no lines, boxes or boundaries that can stop you from being who you are.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[181]='True love brings such a light that darkness cannot hide and must become part of the light.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[182]='Make a stand this moment against negativity. Think of positive things in your life and be grateful. Saying no to all negativity brings a complete moment of love.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[183]='Letting go of the sense of possession allows the ego to break down.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[184]='Inside all of us is a reservoir of love, untapped and waiting to explode beyond time and space. When you give love away, a force is created which brings you more love in return.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru, Kashi Ashram'

quotes[185]='You will identify with what you think will make you safe. Whatever it may be, you will believe that it is one with you. Your safety lies in truth, and not in lies. Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self.<br>-A Course In Miracles'

quotes[186]='Love embraces all with total inclusion. When the feeling of Love is there, no one is left out. The Holy Spirit focuses on the eternal truth about us and does not believe in the images we have made of ourselves. The Holy Spirit sees the pure Love that is there in everyone and reminds us of this truth.<br>-A Course In Miracles'

quotes[187]='"Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me."  Look what happens with a love like that; it lights the whole sky.<br>-Hafiz'

quotes[188]='“Love is not love if it can be turned to hate. Real relationship is not affected by one person’s agreeing or disagreeing with another. It is a space beyond likes and dislikes, beyond good and bad, where everything is reconciled and seen in a new light.”<br>-Tara Singh'

quotes[189]='When you meditate on the heart and the love of God, you can destroy ignorance...<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[190]='By not trusting your heart, you keep the great spirit of the self from being known.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[191]='Always be in your heart when you speak to people. Be kind to everyone.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[192]='Be awake. Be awake every moment of your lives. Life is to be lived in the moment. By being in the moment you become a dynamic human being.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[193]='Try each day to do something more than yesterday. Try each day to love more, to smile more and to choose to be happy and of course to make someone else smile.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[194]='"Only God exists in this world. Therefore do not give up your family life, do not leave your children, do  not spoil your relationship with your husband or wife, do not see faults in your society, and do not beat your head, worrying about the times and death. The world is the strange play of the Lord of all plays, and you have a very small role in His drama. Play it very well..."<br>-Swami Muktananda'

quotes[195]='If you understand that He is the main actor in this drama of the world, if you understand that He is the great artist, if you understand who He is, then you will know who you are, and you will find sublime peace within.  If you understand His game, you will realize that you and I do not exist. you will realize that only He exists. Then you will understand that you and I are one and the same, and the moment this recognition takes place, love will arise. When you realize this, you will understand the mystery behind the statement, "I welcome you with all my heart, with great respect and love.<br>-Swami Muktananda, <i>Resonate with Stillness</i> 12/30'

quotes[196]='When you become the Witness, you become the supreme enjoyer, you observe everything, but you remain unconcerned. When you go to a circus, you watch but you are not really affected by anything. You laugh, you weep, you giggle, you chuckle, you become serious, you howl, and you growl. But when you go home, you know that all that was not you, you are separate from it. And this is why you are able to enjoy it, because you know you are not this. You are the Witness.<br>-Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, <i>Resonate with Stillness</i>'

quotes[197]='Once you see the face of the Truth, even for a second, you can never forget it. In that brief moment, the Self fills your heart with its own essence, which is ambrosia. It fills your mind with its essence, which is knowledge, and your understanding of life is permanently altered. Even one glimpse of that Reality is enough.<br>-Gurumayi Sidvilasananda, <i>Resonate with Stillness</i>'

quotes[198]='When you experience oneness with the great Seer,...when this state of the Witness is attained, all the <i>samskaras</i>, all the past impressions, are nothing more than burned seeds. Then you live freely, truly independent. Because of destiny, you may find yourself in a particular lifestyle, a particular circumstance, yet within yourself you are a freed soul - nothing binds you at all.<br>-Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, <i>Resonate with Stillness</i>'

quotes[199]='What would we be if we did not serve?<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, beloved guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[200]='Humility is the key to the great silence.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, beloved guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[201]='To watch the breath come in and out is the fastest and truest way to be in the moment.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, beloved guru of Kashi Ashram'

quotes[202]='When you need to be right, you bring burdens on yourself and others.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[203]='Those who have attained union have nothing but the inward eye and the divine lamp - they have been delivered of signs and roads.<br>-Rumi, quoted in Travelling The Path of Love, p.208'

quotes[204]='The one who has looked at the sun and then looks at himself, finds he is filled with nothing else but rays of the sun and exclaims, "I am the sun."<br>-Al-Hallaj, Travelling the Path of Love, p. 206'

quotes[205]='When the lover is annihilated in Love his love becomes one with the Love of the Beloved, and then there is no bird and no wings, and his flight and love to God are by God\'s love to him.<br>-Najm Al-Din Kubra, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p. 201'

quotes[206]='Love has come and it flows like blood beneath my skin, through my veins. It has emptied me of my self and filled me with the Beloved. The Beloved has penetrated every cell of my body. Of myself there remains only a name, everything else is Him.<br>-Rumi, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.200'

quotes[207]='First there must be action and knowledge, so that you realize that you know nothing and you are nobody. It is no easy thing to attain this realization.<br>-Abu Sa\'id Ibn-L-Khayr, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.190'

quotes[208]='Sufism is dropping all affectation.<br>-Abu Sa\id Ibn Abi-L-Khayr, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.187'

quotes[209]='May God empty my very self of all except His own presence.<br>-Anonymous, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.185'

quotes[210]='In the depths of the heart the lover becomes lost in the formlessness of love.<br>-Llewelyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love, p.183'

quotes[211]='Those who regard things as determined by God turn to God in everything.<br>Nuri, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.177'

quotes[212]='I was a hidden treasure, and I desired to be known, so I created the world.<br>-Hadith'

quotes[213]='Whether one is inclined to evil or good,<br>Whether one is an inmate of a cloister or a monk in a monastery<br>From the point of view of reality everything is  He and none other than He!<br>-Jami, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.172'

quotes[214]='In the market, in the cloister - only God I saw.<br>In the valley and on the mountain - only God I saw.<br>Him I have seen beside me oft in tribulation;<br>In favor and in fortune - only God I saw...<br>-Baba Kuhi, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.173'

quotes[215]='Rose and mirror and sun and moon - where are they? Wherever we looked, there was always Thy face.<br>-Mir, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.171'

quotes[216]='Insight consists of radiant lights in the heart...the innermost part of creation.<br>-Abu Bakr Muhammad Al-Wasiti, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.159'

quotes[217]='True knowledge is what is unveiled in hearts.<br>-Traditional Sufi saying'

quotes[218]='Love means tearing down the veils and exposing the secrets.<br>-Nuri, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.152'

quotes[219]='Lovers do not reach the height of true love until one says unto the other, "O Thou who are I."<br>-Anonymous, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.151'

quotes[220]='He who loves does not think about his own life; to love truly, a man must forget about himself, be he ascetic or libertine.<br>-Attar, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.150'

quotes[221]='Love is a fire in the heart that burns up all but the Beloved\'s wishes.<br>-Traditional Sufi saying'

quotes[222]='It is burning of the heart I want; this burning which is everything. More precious than a worldly empire, because it calls God secretly, in the night.<br>-Rumi, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, p.149'

quotes[223]='Let him kneel down, lower his face to the grass.<br>And look at light reflected by the ground.<br>There he will find everything we have lost:<br>The stars and the roses, the dusks and the dawns.<br>-Czeslaw Milosz, "The Sun"'

quotes[224]='Be aware of your own heart and the heart of others.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[225]='To say to yourself, "I am part of the Absolute, and the Absolute is part of me" is to understand a larger picture in life.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[226]='When you find love in your heart, you melt away any dark spaces in life.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[227]='To be aware of the breath is to feel a deep connection with God.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[228]='To receive insight into the nature of the Divine Self is to see the Self in everyone\'s eyes.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[229]='If you start off your day with a positive attitude then no matter what comes toward you, you will be able to consume it.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[230]='Detachment means that you are not the doer, God is.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[231]='Humility is the fastest way to find the deepest faith. Know yourself and you will never judge another human being.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[232]='The greatest truth that there is is the truth of kindness, starting with being kind to yourself.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[233]='Meditate to reach the infinite and you will find pure love, peace, and happiness.<br>-Shri Anandi Ma'

quotes[234]='May I become at all times both now and forever,<br>A protector for those without protection,<br>A guide for those who have lost their way,<br>A ship for those with oceans to cross<br>A bridge for those with rivers to cross<br>A sanctuary for those in danger<br>A lamp for those without light<br>A place of rugs for those who lack shelter<br>And a servant to all in need.<br>-Dalai Lama'

quotes[235]='Love walks tall and bright, and leads one into the light; whereas hate leads one into the deepest darkness known to man.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[236]='Misery only doth exist, none miserable.<br>No doer is there; naught save the deed is found.<br>Nirvana is, but not the one who seeks it.<br>The path exists, but not the traveler on it.<br>-Visuddhi-Magga, Cptr XVI'

quotes[237]='Be happy with who you are this moment..."<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[238]='If it is God that you pursue, all you need is to breathe with awareness and allow the love to wash over you and drench you.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[239]='The greatest truth that there is is the truth of kindness, starting with being kind to yourself.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[240]='To love to serve is to be sorrowless.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[241]='When you learn to use your grief to help others, <br>you are helping and the world.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[242]='The ego will be destroyed as one goes on toward the path of kindness.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[243]='It does not matter how you worship or who you worship just as long as your heart is filled with kindness and love.<br>-Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati'

quotes[244]='For, like a grain of fire<br>smoldering in the heart<br>of every living essence<br>God plants His undivided power -<br>Buries His thought too vast<br>for worlds<br>In seeds and roots and blade<br>and flower.<br>-Thomas Merton "The Sowing of Meanings",Figures for an Apocalypse'

quotes[245]='He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.<br>- Saint Basil'

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