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1		"Instead of loving what you think is peace, love other men and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war." Seeds of Contemplatiion (Thomas Merton)

2		"Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this rigidity leads to separation from all others. Egotism and cupidity isolate men. Therefore the hearts of men must be seized by a devout emotion. They must be shaken by a religious awe in face of eternity – stirred with an intuition of the One Creator of all living beings, and united through the strong feeling of fellowship." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

3		"The ideal is not a universalised set of conditions and a uniformity of human personality, but full individual development, with readiness to combine and to co-operate in the great causes of human happiness and progress." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

4		"It is human to go through negative experiences, disappointments and frustrations. It is one of the ways leading us to maturity. Indeed, it is the opportunity to become We-feeling, objective, creative." Fritz Kunkel, M.D. (1889-1956), American psychiatrist, 'How Character Develops' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

5		"Healing is a process of remembering, of reconnecting with our wholeness." Christina Grof, 'The Thirst for Wholeness' Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

6		"Despair is the negation of truth." Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II (Alice A. Bailey)

7		"Paradoxically, it's most often our smallest, most anonymously done good works that have the greatest spiritual impact in and on this world." Thom Hartmann, author and radio talk show host The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

8		"We desperately need a unifying world view to help heal the world's endless fractures. What problems could not be solved by first considering the good of the whole, of the lives of all those on our planet, rather than special interests!" Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

9		"Difficulties strengthen you if you will allow them to do so. They will permit you to love and be loved abundantly." The Light of Love (Patricia Devlin)

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

11		"The Self can't be threatened since, being the All, there is nothing outside of it that could harm it." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

12		"No matter the circumstances, the Holy Spirit's flow is always available to us." The Journey (Billy Graham)

13		"There is nothing – no thing, no person, no experience, no thought, no joy or pain – that cannot be harvested and used for nourishment on our journey to God." A Tree Full of Angels (Macrina Wiederkehr)

14		"Neither individuals nor nations are paralysed by their past actions. Everything is not irretrievably fated, however good or bad the past. Man can master circumstances and make of each experience an opportunity for a fresh beginning, however heavily the past may weigh upon him." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

15		"It seems to me that we are at the threshold of a new spiritual epoch. I do not wish to pass myself off as a prophet, but one can hardly attempt to sketch the spiritual problem of modern man without mentioning the longing for rest in a period of unrest, the longing for security in an age of insecurity. It is from need and distress that new forms of existence arise." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

16		"Review the situations of your life and notice that for every negative encounter, there is a positive possibility. The ability to turn a negative into a positive is the essence of the process of living and learning." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

17		"Visit the frightened, the elderly, the ill. Be a mentor, remind each other of our true nature, and in particular honor others…..see their Great Nature." Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey (Stephen Levine)

18		"One who lets slip by the opportunity to serve another misses one of the richest experiences life has to offer." Pali text Born For Love: Reflections on Loving (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

19		"The story line in all religions tells of a happy ending that blossoms as a result of ordeals necessarily confronted and surmounted. These trials add to the ultimate glory." Huston Smith Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning (Winifred Gallagher)

20		"Protoplasm is not a substance but a system possessing a pattern, which so regulates the course of the changes that go on within it that a specific form of activity tends to result….There is inherent in the living system a self-regulating quality that keeps it directed toward a definite norm of course and the growth and activity of the organism takes place in conformity to it." Edmund W. Sinnott, 'Matter, Mind and Man' The Meaning in Dreams and Dreaming (Maria F. Mahoney)

21		"Somehow it seems always that the spirit finds the proper means of education – a guru, a book, or crisis – when the life is amenable to change." Richard Roberts Tarot Revelations (Joseph Campbell & Richard Roberts)

22		"When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light." Oswald Chambers Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)

23		"The Universal Core bestows creative impetus upon each soul." Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era (Meredith L. Young)

24		"Mastering – or, if you prefer, integrating – the psyche is the work of a lifetime….This mastery is not holding the psyche in rigid subjugation (which is impossible in any case), nor is it a matter of having a maniacally religious ego lording it over the emotions and the body. Rather, it is being centered in the still, small voice that is the true 'I' of the spirit." Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition (Richard Smoley)

25		"Our traditional Native American greeting in the Seneca language is 'Na:weh Skennio' – thank you for being! Whether you know it or not, each of you represents a spark of inspiration within the Great Mystery. You are needed. You touch the lives of many and are responsible for changing the lives of others for the better. For all that you do and for who you are, I thank you for being." Jamie Sams, 'Messages for the Women of the Millennium' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite