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1		"Sometimes the right sentence will open us to experiences and world-views we never imagined before. They might appear just when we need them, giving us guidance, courage, vision, and inspiration. They are seeds of wisdom that can provide direction, change, or even a course for transformation." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

2		"God displays neither a grudge nor profane anger over previous apostasy and transgressions. In godlike fashion he gives to all who approach his guiding light and does so in harmonious and orderly fashion and in proportion to the disposition of each one toward the sacred." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

3		"There is a perfect balance that lies within each individual, and following this balance requires neither cunning nor striving." The Roots of Consciousness (Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D.)

4		"Full healing and complete meaning come, ultimately, only from God at the center." Spiritual Pilgrims, Carl Jung & Teresa of Avila (John Welch, O. Carm.)

5		"To see soundly is to see whole." Creative Vision for Art and for Life (Richard Guggenheimer)

6		"In fact we are safe even though we often experience pain and suffering. They are part of life, and ultimately we all are held in God's hand." The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (Carol Pearson, Ph.D.)

7		"Positive emotions do more than draw us toward things that are pleasant, for they are ultimately fundamental to existence. Positive emotions communicate to the mind and body in a life-enhancing way, energize us, and enrich our lives. We have an innate desire to experience them." The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power (Gregg D. Jacobs, Ph.D.)

8		"Seek those new attitudes and those new creative approaches which will result not alone in the building of the individual, but also in the fusion of the many 'radiant strands' which will produce those 'connecting cables', speaking symbolically, which will relate the planetary centres and present the medium along which can pass the fiery will and the predetermined purpose of Deity. This will bring about the reconstruction of the manifested worlds, and in this task each and every one of you can have his share." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

9		"Order, meaning, beauty and the inner sustainment arising from the conviction that one has a place and function to perform within a vast planetary process whose essential nature is rhythm and harmony regardless of the grinding noise of passing dissonances – what could be more valuable for men, women and children of our civilization?" Occult Preparations for a New Age (Dane Rudhyar)

10		"The presence of God, curiously enough, always coincides with a time of great distress." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

11		"Like a good and loving physician, God heals with individual treatment each of those who are trying to make progress." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Second Century on Love' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

12		"The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all people welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by humanity has turned, and like the monster of Frankenstein, is destroying its creator. Religion wanders aimlessly in the maze of theological speculation. Science batters itself impotently against the barriers of the unknown. Only transcendental philosophy knows the path. Only the illumined reason can carry the understanding part of humanity upward to the light. Only philosophy can teach us to be born well, to die well, and in perfect measure be born again. Into this band – those who have chosen the life of knowledge, of virtue, and of utility – the philosophers of the ages invite you." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

13		"Suffering is the leveler that reminds us of our common mortality, that none of us is exempt from the difficulties of human life. When suffering and despair come together, they provide us with the opportunity to affirm hope, love ourselves, and to say, against all odds, 'And yet I will love, and yet I will hope.' It is then that we learn transcendence; it is then that we know the beauty of oneness, of being part of the network of connectedness." The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By (Carol Pearson, Ph.D.)

14		"We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin: we could never end: there are not pens or paper enough in all the world." George A. Buttrick (1892-1980), pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City Devotional Classics (Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)

15		"Whatever problems, difficulties, pleasures or possibilities our destinies happen to bring us can be just as much in order to help us to a new realization as they are because of what happened before. They are different ways to grasp the evolution of the Self in expansion….through self- and I-Thou awareness." Return of the Goddess (Edward C. Whitmont, MD)

16		"The aspiring soul seeks Self in the selflessness of the Great Law." Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Manly P. Hall)

17		"Suffering is an occasion for wisdom, and wisdom is an essential ingredient in happiness." Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing (Peter Kreeft)

18		"The more we lose all foothold in the darkness and instability of the future, the more deeply we penetrate into God." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

19		"A species of magical power capable of transforming even brute matter dwells in the human mind." 'Psychology and Alchemy' Collected Works (Carl Jung)

20		"The central secret is to know that the various human passions and feelings and emotions in the human heart are not wrong in themselves; only they have to be carefully controlled and given a higher and higher direction, until they attain the very highest condition of excellence." Vivekananda (1863-1902), Indian spiritual teacher A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science (Michael S. Schneider)

21		"There is a way to resolve the current crises and tensions our polarized nations and their conflicting political systems are experiencing. It is known by various names: the Path of Synthesis, the Third Way, the Way of the Disciple, or simply, the Way of the Soul." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

22		"Every event you choose for your life, no matter how destructive, chaotic or miserable it may seem, has been allowed to manifest because your Wholeness has an innate knowledge of those things you need to get you to the place where you will choose to sink deeply within, into the stillness of who you are." Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream (Mary-Margaret Moore)

23		"Instead of stressing distinctions and the isolation of things, we can look at them as parts connected to form an organic whole. When we expand our consciousness and focus on this rather than on our seeming isolation, we can begin to live more fully." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

24		"Alchemical evolution is epitomized in the formula 'Solve et Coagula' (Dissolve and Coagulate), that is to say: 'analyse all the elements in yourself, dissolve all that is inferior in you, even though you may break in doing so; then, with the strength acquired from the preceding operation, congeal.'" A Dictionary of Symbols (J. E. Cirlot)

25		"Be assured that your inner turmoil is not in vain; it is not for nothing;….it has been as necessary for you as it was for me – as it is to every small and large creature emerging from its self-spun darkness." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)