Quotes from the Masters and Teachers

[mArIya]

"Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them."

– Steve Maraboli

[mArIya]

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Originally Posted by mArIya
“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Thanks for the links, mArIya, Steve Maraboli isn't someone with whom I'm familiar but I find a lot of truth in what he says Lots of great quotes there, I particularly liked these two:

'I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.'

'People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.'

Yes those are great too :)

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[Sugar-n-Spice]

Originally Posted by A human Being

'The spiritual path doesn't take you away from pain and discomfort - it takes you straight through it.' - Jim Tolles

Good one

[Clover]

When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's not true. Or someone says, 'I hate you,' and you think, 'Oh, God, I knew it; I'm not very worthy,' that's not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

Adyashanti

[Within Silence]

Awareness is non-dual, mind is dual, awareness cannot exist with duality and mind cannot exist without duality; identification is the root cause of your misery. -Osho

[Within Silence]

“The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free—everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.”
― Adyashanti,

[Miss Hepburn]

Consider seriously how quickly people change,
and how little trust can be had in them;
and hold fast to God, Who does not.

-St.Teresa of Avila

[Clover]

The way our minds hold things dualistically- just become irrelevant, like When you wake up to your true nature, you don't suddenly feel good about yourself. Did you think you were?

There is only one thing that is better than I am good or I am bad, and that is I am

-Adyashanti, On welcome to reality.

[Clover]

" Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you "

Eckhart Tolle

[MysticVoyage]

Originally Posted by mata elang

When you see ill in your friend, it is your own ill that you are observing.
- Baal Shem Tov

Thank you for posting this. Some wisdom from the Baal Shem Tov was just what I needed to break my post-election funk :-)