Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

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Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

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The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

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Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything... even when you can not foresee the outcome.

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A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

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You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

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To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

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Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

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Your body is just the place your memory calls home.

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