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"We shall be saved by an option that has chosen the whole."
Science and Christ
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"We are drenched in awareness, in experience, and have no choice but to go with it on some profound level."
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
(Ken Wilber)
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"I am always at choice: experience the miracles of life as they come to me or blind myself to them, with the audacity to believe that God ever, ever, ever did not know what He was doing."
Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"We can know more of our inner subtle states of consciousness. We can think and understand. We can love those who come to us, and we can delight in deep joy. All this comes from choosing the right fork in the road."
Finding Deep Joy
(Robert Ellwood)
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"In the heart, heaven and hell are decided."
Heaven, The Heart's Deepest Longing
(Peter Kreeft)
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"Choice constitutes growth and differentiation of consciousness. Hence an old Jewish saying, 'Man was born for the sake of choice'. Ample evidence testifies that this dynamic is basic to life, even on the biological level."
Return of the Goddess
(Edward C. Whitmont, MD)
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"Your heart beats on its own. Your lungs take in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide without your willful assistance. Nature puts you to sleep and wakes you up. Why shouldn't life-supporting choices flow just as freely from a mind that's attuned to the evolutionary currents of the cosmos?"
Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide
(Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)
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"Perception rests on choosing."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"You are a member of the species. Any choice you make privately affects it biologically and psychically."
The 'Unknown' Reality
(Jane Roberts)
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"As human beings, we can choose to see each element of creation as separate. Or we can choose to see the one life that is within them all."
The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation
(The Findhorn Community)
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"Our faith and our power of choice are, in fact, the power of creation itself. We are the vessels through which energy becomes matter in this life."
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
(Caroline Myss)
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"Are we contributing to a finer spiritual body of light for our planet, or are we contributing to a body of darkness? It is our choice." K. Martin-Kuri
Angels: The Mysterious Messengers
(Rex Hauck, editor)
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"It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom….I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension." Freeman Dyson, physicist, recipient of the Templeton Prize
The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
(Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.)
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"Here are four words to memorize: We are all One. Model that when you make your next choices and decisions."
Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"The career of a soul as it threads its course…is guided by its choices, which are controlled by what the soul wants and wills at each stage of the journey."
The World's Religions
(Huston Smith)
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"Our freedom is so much greater than we have comprehended. We can learn to shift from reality to reality, choosing the one that is most relevant to our needs and purposes at the moment and use our new approach…to nourish our being, love, cherish, and garden ourselves and each other, be at home in our universes, and help save ourselves and the planet." Dr. Lawrence LeShan, 'Alternate Realities'
Shamanism: An Expanded View of Reality
(Shirley Nicholson, Compiler)
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"When you suffer in mind or body, the road forks. You can go the route of feeling sorry for yourself, dwelling on your pain and the unfairness of a life which dealt you that card…or you can determine to let this experience open you to learning more about human life in all its dimensions."
Finding Deep Joy
(Robert Ellwood)
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"As God freely chooes to create, so humans govern themselves by their own deliberate choice."
Introduction to Theology
(Thomas P. Rausch, editor)
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"One need remain in hell no longer than one chooses to; we can rise to any heaven we ourselves choose; and when we choose so to rise, all the higher powers of the Universe combine to help us heavenward." R. W. Trine, 'In Tune with the Infinite'
Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(William James)
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." George Eliot
Living Quotations for Christians
(Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)
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"The choices are ours to make. As Nikos Kazantzakas has boldly suggested, 'We have our brush and colors – paint Paradise, and in we go.'"
Personhood: The Art of Being Fully Human
(Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)
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"Both sinning and righteous are so by their own choice." Cyril of Jerusalem, 'The Catechetical Lectures'
Cyril of Jerusalem and Nemesius of Emesa
(William Telfer, Editor)
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"We choose our lives, we make them, we cocreate them, we give birth to them by the 'inward' choices we make." Matthew Fox
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"We can choose to develop awareness,…. which allows us to be responsible agents instead of helpless victims." Tenzin Palmo, English Buddhist nun
Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning
(Winifred Gallagher)
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"Every decision you make, you choose whether you make it for the small self or whether you seek divine guidance and follow that."
The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation
(The Findhorn Community)
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