By Maria Popova
The cause of and cure for the illusion of separateness that keeps us from embracing the richness of life.
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CLEAR ALL
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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The User’s Guide to Spiritual Teachers is a necessary book for anyone who has, or wants to have, a spiritual teacher—regardless of faith or tradition.
The essence of Dr. Howard Thurman (1900–1981) and his thought emerges in a message of hope, reconciliation, and love.
Howard Thurman, minister, philosopher, civil rights activist, has been called ‘one of the greatest spiritual resources of this nation.’ His encounters with Gandhi in India helped instill his commitment to nonviolence. This book features some of his writings.
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
Jeff Brown takes us along a bridge of consciousness, a stepping out into the heart of our spiritual journey- from false path to true path, from misidentification to authenticity.