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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"God is the human person's true being." |
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"Each person's destiny is truly integrated into a final beyond-individual and transpersonal connectedness of the one reality." |
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"Whoever recognizes in atman (the Self) the unity of reality is free from fear. For fear arises when there is an other who poses a threat. But atman is knowledge, and for it there is no other that is not already essentially a self. Non-dulaity is freedom from fear." |
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"Insofar as humans become aware of being and recognize atman they realize not only their own identity -…but they also integrate the polarity of difference and identity in the participatory act of lovingly becoming one." |
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"Christ is always already present, for he is the light that enlightens every person coming into the world (John 1:9)." |
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"Everything that exists, exists in God whose life it shares." |
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"Our 'own' consciousness is like a light which is switched on in the meeting with another. What is new in today's interreligious situation could be described as a worldwide and conscious application of this principle to interreligious dialogue, with the goal of cooperation in all areas of life." |
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"Through the unifying power of love of the Spirit, creation reaches completion; i.e., it attains its essence." |
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"The freedom of the one reality is the self-determination to realize love." |
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"Each partner is a light for the other and enables him/her to see better the depths of his/her own tradition. The religion of the partner is like a sounding board in which one's own terms and symbols acquire new over- or undertones." |
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"It could be said that Jesus' experience both contains advaitic [non-dualistic] experience and proceeds towards a goal. It reaches its climax in the union of a personal encounter: i.e., it is in a perpetual dynamic of becoming one." |
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"Reality in itself is not a dead tranquility, nor a mechanical process, but expansiveness and the attraction of love." |
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"Science recognizes today the interrelationality of the universe. Relativity theory, quantum physics, post-Darwinian models of evolution, psychosomatic medicine, parapsychological research, biofeedback and, most of all, experience with Yoga and meditation support this basic vision." |
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"Ethics has its basis not in a forever grounded ought, but in a real transformation, which includes being aware of the interdependence of all being." |
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"Intuitive knowledge of the One is the pinnacle of spiritual fulfillment." |
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"God is continuously realizing himself in the whole of creation." |
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"Reality is a self-differentiated whole. The ground of the wholeness is God, who manifests himself at various levels, each of which forms a relative wholeness and reacts with the others." |
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"God is relationship within the moments of one movement which constitutes his being." |
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"Only when we can treat others….as a thou and as a source for our self-understanding is true brotherhood/sisterhood possible between all peoples." |
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"In an image from the German mystics, human life is like a flower, which willingly unfolds in order to receive the rays of the sun." |
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"Everything is grounded in consciousness of the whole. The whole is always there and awaits our receptivity." |
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"The personal center of the individual is essentially the Self (atman), which is beyond the particularities of physical-psychic-mental life or of any changeable things or of change as such." |
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"Brahman is one and is everything, above everything, outside everything, beyond everything and yet in everything….Brahman is the real self of all beings." |
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"When the dialogue partner becomes for me a source of my own self-understanding, he/she is also a source of my understanding of God." |
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"God is the ground and mystery of creation who binds himself to forms yet is not held bound by them." |