Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
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"Love makes no demands, neither does it look for results. It is unaware of itself in its concern for the other, and its recompense is helping the beloved to be more fully himself."
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"In the spiritual life you are confronted by a psychoanalyst who is your own soul guided by the Holy Spirit. When we are most abject we are also most receptive to divine grace."
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"This is the splendid vision of the mystic, that God is in all His creation, and we, in union with Him, can participate in the transfiguration of matter."
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"Growth into the fullness of life is a graduated exploration into the meaning and power of love."
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"We know most of God when we know ourselves best. It is the movement towards self-knowledge that brings us towards a knowledge of life."
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"Faith is implanted in the spirit of man."
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"When the awareness of the mind transcends the isolation of the personal self, it establishes an intimate relationship with the other, so that it is no longer merely a subject-object communication. This communication is one in which perceiver and perceived, thinker and thought, subject and object are united into a single all-pervading reality in which duality, or separation, is lost."
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"Love is not an emotional response or a feeling. It is a state of willed tranquility in which we can absorb the personality of the other individual and give of our very being to him."
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"God…comes to us when we are broken, and He mends the personality within us. The gratitude we evince and the depth of understanding with which we are now endowed help us to feel into the sufferings of others. Thus does compassion develop."
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"To know your true self is life's quest. When it is known, you have indeed grown into life."
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"In the incarnation of Christ we see the coincidence of the human and the divine wills, separate yet united. And this is the promise for all mankind as it partakes fully of the divine nature deeply ingrained in it."
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"All creatures live in psychic communion."
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"In the mad rush for security and peace, there is too often an escape from the person to an outer world of authority, where responsibility may be laid at the door of someone else. Yet there can be no peace that does not come from the depths of our own being, no security that does not arise from the love within, and no knowledge that does not proclaim the unity of the person in the greater community of creation."
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"There is one God, and all are embraced in Him and infused in Him."
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"This is man's end – to worship God and to enjoy Him forever."
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"When the personality is infused by the authenticity of the soul, the will is free and acting under the direct instructions of the Holy Spirit. Then we are indeed participants in God's will."
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"The spiritually alive person is aware….that there is a power behind the cosmic flow which is all-powerful and all-caring."
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"When we know ourselves we begin to live with meaning and purpose. The world expands, and our hearts respond in joyful radiance. This is the life abundant which alone is worth having."
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"The cosmic dimension of divine love is transpersonal, but never impersonal. Transpersonal love never denies the unique nature of any creature, but loves all creatures equally."
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"Prayer is as necessary for the soul as air is for the body. The fruit of prayer is vision; the action of prayer is love."
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"The unique identity of each person (and created object) is never impugned or obliterated. On the contrary, it is confirmed and glorified in the eternal presence of which it is both an integral part and a universal whole."
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