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Qualities of Consciousness
The Sufi makes everything that she does spiritual. She sees only unity and harmony. The Sufi’s religion is love alone; therefore the principles of the different religions are nothing to her. She leaves the fight about principles to those who cannot see beyond the narrow limit of their own ideas.
~Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
~Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World
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The hero’s main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious.
— Jung
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While one world is burning and unraveling, another world is being called forth by forces stirring deep within the spirit of our collective psyches.
— Osprey Orielle Lake
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Your life is now. Your life situation is mind stuff.
— Eckhart Tolle
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So many things affect our consciousness that we can hardly trace our influences. All we can do is watch it flowing through us as…
