Evolution Quotes
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
t can be easily argued that all living things are conscious in some aspect, but many would agree that advanced consciousness like our own is unique.
Life is a river, " a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.
Creativity is a talent we inherit from God.
Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.
Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you.
Well-being, or wholeness, implies integrity and harmony between all existing elements, providing freedom for the whole.
Getting down to the gym a couple days a week and having low-fat milk in your morning latte isn’t going to make much of a dent in a system or lifestyle that is essentially, well, unwell.
Appreciation, affection, focus and intention fill up the space of self-reflection, and one loses oneself in the engagement. And what a relief it is when you get there.
The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer.
The subjective experience of intense pain (“That’s all I can take”) corresponds exactly to one’s subjective experience in relation to truth (“That’s all I can take”).
By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer.
My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing.
If you are “playing” too much or “working” too much, you will have a reaction on the other side, which indicates your pace is off, too slow or too fast.
Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation.
The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.
A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.
In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose.
What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less.
The challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them.
What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.
If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship.
Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems).
I think that as a species we’ve played at being the self-indulgent, spoiled adolescent way too long, and now there are permanent damages and absolute risks that most people are ignoring.
Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so.
The purest definition of “religious” is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.
Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747.
The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.
The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.
Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Words have to die if humans are to live.
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.