Set aside all reflection, for you will find it hard to reason about how God leads you. If you are determined to pursue reasoning you may become very good at it and convince yourself to follow your own way. Or worse, you will reason that you are following God. Jeanne Guyon (1648 – 1717)
Jeanne Guyon Quote – “The boundless sea has absorbed the river…”
The boundless sea has absorbed the river and its limited waters. Now the river shares in all that the sea has. The sea carries the river along; the river cannot carry itself along. The river has become one with the sea. No, the river does not have all the qualities of the sea, but it is, nonetheless, in the sea. […]
Stephen Levine Quote – “It’s hard to be loving all the time…”
And we see that with all our imagined unworthiness and fear, with all our doubt and desire, it’s hard to be loving all the time. But it’s harder not be loving. Stephen Levine (1937 – 2016)
Stephen Levine Quote – “If you made a list of everything you own…”
If you made a list of everything you own, everything you think of as you, everything you prefer, that list would be the distance between you and the living truth. Stephen Levine (1937 – 2016)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “To be united with the Beloved is to love all…”
To be united with the Beloved is to love all, for in all dwelleth the Beloved. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “True education is to learn how to think…”
True education is to learn how to think, not what to think. If you know how to think, if you really have that capacity, then you are a free human being — free of dogmas, superstitions, ceremonies — and therefore you can find out what religion is. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “It is only a religious mind…”
It is only a religious mind, a mind that is enquiring into itself, that is aware of its own movements, its own activity, which is the beginning of self-knowledge — it is only such a mind that is a revolutionary mind. And a revolutionary mind is a mutating mind is the religious mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “In the fear of life…”
In the fear of life, the temptation of sorrow is created. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “Not a thing shall bind me…”
As one beholds through a small window A single green leaf, a small patch of the vast blue sky, So I began to perceive Thee, in the beginning of All things. As the leaf faded and withered, the patch covered as with a Dark cloud, So didst Thou fade and vanish, But to be reborn again, As the single green […]
Jiddu Krishnamurti Quote – “Silence cannot be purchased…”
Silence cannot be purchased but comes when the mind is no longer seeking, caught in the process of becoming. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986)