Many / One

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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1		"Appreciating sacredness begins very simply by taking an interest in all the details of life."

2		"Absence of doubt is trusting in the heart, trusting yourself. Being without doubt means that you have connected with yourself."

3		"What you are is genuinely, basically good."

4		"We must try to think how we can help this world. If we don't help, nobody will. It is our turn to help the world."

5		"The world around us is very sacred, so we have to constantly serve our world."

6		"In order to establish an enlightened society for others, we need to discover what inherently we have to offer the world. So, to begin with, we should make an effort to examine our own experience, in order to see what it contains that is of value in helping ourselves and others to uplift their existence."

7		"The ground or root of wakefulness and sanity exists as a potential within every human being."

8		"You do not possess basic goodness but you ARE the basic goodness itself."

9		"If you actually look, if you take your whole being apart and examine it, you find that you are genuine and good as you are."

10		"We experience glimpses of goodness all the time, but we often fail to acknowledge them. When we see a bright color, we are witnessing our own inherent goodness. When we hear a beautiful sound, we are hearing our own basic goodness."

11		"It is necessary to appreciate that, for many thousands of years, human beings have been collecting wisdom….We should not ignore the contributions of the past."

12		"The human potential for intelligence and dignity is attuned to experiencing the brilliance of the bright blue sky, the freshness of green fields, and the beauty of the trees and mountains. We have an actual connection to reality that can wake us up and make us feel basically, fundamentally good."

13		"You can learn to experience the sacredness, the nowness, of reality. That is the basis for creating an enlightened society."

14		"The magical strength and wisdom of reality are always there. That wisdom abides in the cosmic mirror. By relaxing the mind, you can reconnect with that primoridal, original ground, which is completely pure and simple."

15		"When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe. You develop a true perception of the universe."

16		"The goodness in everyone's heart CAN be realized without doubt."

17		"This experience of nowness can join together the vastness of primordial wisdom with both the wisdom of past traditions and the realities of contemporary life. So in that way, you begin to see how the world of sacredness can be created altogether."

18		"A bank of self-existing energy is always available to you – beyond any circumstance. It actually comes from nowhere, but is always there. It is the energy of basic goodness."

19		"There is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems."

20		"There is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in this world – which is the innate wakefulness of human beings."

21		"Arrogance comes from hanging on to the reference point of me and other."

22		"There may be thousands or billions of perceptions, but they are still One."

23		"Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."

24		"From being open and honest with ourselves, we can also learn to be open with others. So we can work with the rest of the world, on the basis of the goodness we discover in ourselves."

25		"There is no fundamental separation or duality between you and your world."