Baha’u’llah said,

“The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizen.”

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The Sufi salute each other saying,

“The Divine is love and is the Beloved.”

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Khalil Gibran said,

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”

. . . . .

Ruth Bader Ginsburg said,

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”

“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”

. . . . .

Amma Amritananadamayi said,

“Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.”

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Sufi Pir Valayat Khan said,

“If your heart is burning in the ecstasy of love, it will open the hearts of all beings.”

. . . . .

Thich Nhat Hanh said,

 “When understanding is born in me, compassion is also born.”

. . . . .

Muhammed Hafez said,

“The heart is a thousand string instrument that can only be tuned by love.”

. . . . .

May Ziadeh, Palestinian- Lebanese, 1886 -1941 said,

“The light does not look into the sun, and the heart does not stare at the soul,

because both are one.”

. . . . .

Ervin Laszlo said,

“There is a Universal Creative Force connecting all beings and things, a source of love and wisdom that can be drawn from and revealed through the creation of works of art.”

. . . . .

Sufi teacher Farid Uddin Attar said,

“And silently their shining Lord replies: ‘I am a mirror set before your eyes, and all who come before my splendor see themselves, their own unique reality; you came as thirty birds and therefore saw these selfsame thirty birds, not less nor more; if you had come as forty, fifty—here an answering forty, fifty would appear; though you have struggled, wandered, traveled far, it is yourselves you see and what you are.’” (from The Conference of the Birds)

. . . . .

Meister Eckhart said,

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

. . . . .

John O’Donohue said,

“May you recognize in your life the presence, power, and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that your soul in its brightness and belonging connects you intimately with the rhythm of the universe. May you have respect for your own individuality and difference.”

. . . . .

Caroline Myss said,

“Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgements. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!”

. . . . .

Deepak Chopra said,

“Spritituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.”

. . . . .

Wayne Dyer said,

“When you dance, it is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It is to enjoy each step along the way.”

“You cannot always control what goes outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

. . . . .

Pema Chodron said,

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

. . . . .

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. said,

“Do not lose heart. We are made these times.”

. . . . .

Marianne Williamson said,

“God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.”

. . . . .

St. Teresa DeAvila said,

“For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

. . . . .

Dalai Lama said,

“It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”

. . . . .

Mahatma Ghandi said,

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

. . . . .

Louise Hay said,

“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

. . . . .

Joseph Campbell said,

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

. . . . .

Edgar Cayce said,

“Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.”

. . . . .

Byron Katie said,

“If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.”

. . . . .

Antoine de Saint Exupery said

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

. . . . .

Helena Blavatsky said,

“Do not be afraid of your difficulties. Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”

. . . . .

Eckhart Tolle said,

“Our innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the “I Am” that is deeper than name and form.”

. . . . .

Dr. K. Bradford Brown said,

“To create, we must learn to stand on other people’s shoulders humbly.”

. . . . .

Oprah Winfrey said,

“True forgiveness is when you can say thank you for that experience.”

. . . . .

Melody Beattie said,

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

. . . . .

Jiddu Krishnamurti said,

“It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”

. . . . .

Rabia al Basri, a Muslim Sufi woman, said,

“In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel. Prayer should bring us to an alter where no walls or name exist.”

. . . . .

Chief Seattle said,

“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

. . . . .

Nelson Mandela said,

“Courage is not the absence of fear – it is inspiring others to move beyond it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

. . . . .

Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning, said,

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

. . . . .

Howard Thurman said,

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive.”

. . . . .

Lawrence Kushner said,

“Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.”

“Spiritual and cultural strength is measured not by rigidity or power, but by the vitality and flexibility of the response.”

. . . . .

Maya Angelou said,

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

. . . . .

Ram Dass said,

“Only that in you which is me can hear what I am saying.”

“We are fascinated by the words, but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

. . . . .

Muhammed Hafez said,

“Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light and let it breathe.”

. . . . .

Salma Light Al Alami said,

“The Greater Power, the Spirit Supreme, is immeasurable. The Ultimate Reality cannot be grasped by words.”

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