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Joyce Rupp in The Star in My Heart
I heard a wise saying once that has helped me...

Joyce Rupp in The Star in My Heart
I heard a wise saying once that has helped me...

Hugh Prather in Spiritual Notes to Myself
Egos clash . . .

Hazrat Inayat Khan in Art of Personality
The art of personality is to cut off the rough edges...

Dainin Katagiri in You Have to Say Something
A Zen master said to a monk...

Jean Pierre de Caussade in The Inner Treasure
We must offer ourselves to God...

Katherine Le Mee in Chant
Spiritual teaching has always pointed to...

Ramon Lull quoted in God Hunger by John Kirvan
Tell us, Lover! Do you possess riches?

J. Krishnamurti inThe Zen of Listening
To observe without evaluating...

Andrew Harvey in Dialogues with a Modern Mystic
So many people don't know...

Thich Nhat Hanh in Living Buddha, Living Christ
We must also be careful to avoid ingesting toxins...

Abba Poemen in Desert Wisdom translated by Yushi Nomura
Teach your mouth . . .

Thich Nhat Hanh in Love in Action
Things can sometimes go more smoothly . . .

Charles Birch in Life Abundant
The rich must live more simply...

Gerald Jampolsky
To be impatient is to be hooked...

C. S. Lewis in God Hunger
This hunger is better than...

Deepak Chopra in How to Know God
Yesterday's E-mail is no less significant...

Heraclitus in Fragments
Even a soul submerged in sleep is...

Patricia McCarthy in Behold Your Life
To believe in the resurrection means...

Thomas Moore in The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
Xenophobia, the fear of strangers, is an infection...

Henri J. M. Nouwen in Ministry and Spirituality
The movement from hostility to hospitality...

Jim Wallis in The Soul of Politics
Reconnecting politics to our best values . . .

Rabbi Terry Bookman in The Busy Soul
Think about the recognition that has come...

Michel Legris in Gurdjieff: Essays and Reflections on the Man and His Teaching
At the end of his spiritual talks...

James Truslow Adams in The Time Is Now
Perhaps it would be a good idea...

Leonard Sweet in A Cup of Coffee at the Soul Cafe
Our duty is not to see through one another...

Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Wonders of Solitude
I like the silent church before...

Vaclav Havel in Lyrics for Re-Creation
Hope is a state of mind...

Santideva in A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
There is no merit without zeal...

Sara Shendelman and Dr. Avram Davis in Traditions
A tradition that derives from the kabbalah...

Richard Rohr in Hope Against Darkness
Don't waste any time dividing the world...

Julia Cameron in God Is No Laughing Matter
Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping...

Rumi in Love Is a Fire
God turns you from one feeling...

Yoruba proverb quoted in Chanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound by Robert Gass and Kathleen Brehony
A village without music . . .

Mark Nepo in The Book of Awakening
One key to knowing joy...

Gracie Allen quoted in the United Church of Christ's God Is Still Speaking Campaign
Never put a period . . .

John Muir quoted in Leather Tramp Journal by Richard Broderick
Keep close to Nature's heart . . .

David A. Cooper in Entering the Sacred Mountain
I have begun visualizing myself cradled...

Colman McCarthy quoted in Spiritual Literacy by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
We only have to go a little beyond . . .

Yitzhak Buxbaum in Jewish Spiritual Practices
Before studying Torah, the Baal Shem Tov...

Brenda Peterson in American Nature Writing 1994
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe...

Edward Hays in The Ladder
A good daily exercise for soul loss...

Brenda Peterson in Singing to the Sound
It is never too late to...

Marianne Williamson in A Return to Love
Spiritual progress is . . .

Mary Manin Morrissey in No Less Than Greatness
When someone's really listening . . .

Sharon Salzberg in Faith
To be driven by fear . . .

Lawrence Kushner in Invisible Lines of Connection
So that's what it's all about...

Wendell Berry in A Timbered Choir
When we work well, a Sabbath mood...

Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields in Instructions to the Cook
Doubt is a state of openness...

Joseph Telushkin in Jewish Wisdom
It is not in our power to explain...

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