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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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“The ancients could get along with the Greek wisdom of the ages: Exaggerate nothing, all good lies in right measure.”
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."
Shambhala
(Chogyam Trungpa)
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"Moral goodness has its eternal value in itself."
The Essential Steiner
(Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)
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"This Form of the good must be seen by whosoever would act wisely in public or in private." Plato, 'The Republic'
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"Good encompasses evil and transmutes it, showing its place in the total scheme of things."
The Way Things Are
(Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)
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"Every human being has a basic nature of goodness, which is undiluted and unconfused. That goodness contains tremendous gentleness and appreciation."
Shambhala
(Chogyam Trungpa)
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"There is never an end, as there is never a beginning, to the good which God does: just as the property of light is to illuminate, so the property of God is to do good." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'First Century on Theology'
The Philokalia, volume 2
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)
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"The love of goodness is the first experience of the natural man, and all spiritual advancement is an extension of the soul's journey through its great distance."
Lamps of Western Mysticism
(Arthur Edward Waite)
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"If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the good, that is, the divine, in people and things, and leave all the rest to God."
Kinship With All Life
(J. Allen Boone)
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"We are rooted in an earth that God has proclaimed good. Here on this good earth we have become flesh with the seed of God hidden in us."
A Tree Full of Angels
(Macrina Wiederkehr)
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"God has made good will the basis upon which our supernatural growth is founded. The pure heart, the right intention, are the organs of the higher life towards which all the soul's hopes are directed."
Writings in Time of War
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The will-to-good of the world knowers is the magnetic seed of the future."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"I find good people good and I find bad people good, if I am good enough." Lao-Tzu (6th century bce), Chinese founder of Taoism, 'The Way of Life'
The Quotable Spirit
(Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)
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"Every creature intends to acquire its own perfection, which is the likeness of the divine perfection and goodness. Therefore the divine goodness is the end of all things."
Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas
(Anton C. Pegis, editor)
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"There is only one way for a man to be true to himself. If he does not know what is good, a man cannot be true to himself." Confucius (551-479 bce), Chinese sage, 'The Doctrine of Mean'
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"In the long run, the good triumphs over the evil."
The City of God
(St. Augustine)
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"Each one vaguely apprehends a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore to attain unto it each doth strive." Dante, 'Purgatorio', xvii. 127-129
Dante and the Mystics
(Edmund G. Gardner)
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"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."
The Perennial Philosophy
(Aldous Huxley)
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"Small efforts can bring about such great good. Glory be to God."
The Light of Love
(Patricia Devlin)
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"Man is provided with the means of shaping his own nature, so that his inborn potentialities for good can be completely realized."
I Ching or The Book of Changes
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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