"The only way to come home to spirit is to allow our love nature, Eros, to be stronger than fear. Easy to say, difficult to practice. We need to bless those who challenge us to be fully loving; they mirror to us where we may withhold our love by being close-hearted, half-hearted, and weak-hearted. They are great teachers for us, and remind us that the greatest remorse for human beings is love unexpressed." Angeles Arrien, 'Transformation in the Millennium'
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THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Annie Besant
The author demonstrates that the spiritual path is primarily a matter of devotion to love of humanity, coupled with a realization that the Divine One is present everywhere.
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"Expansion of consciousness is the hallmark of human evolution. As consciousness expands, taking more and more within its limits, humankind thus rising will increase in power, wisdom and love."
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"According to an old Eastern book, 'the man who sees the One Self in everything, and all things in the Self, he sees, verily, he sees.' All else is blindness. The sense of separation, while necessary for evolution, is fundamentally a mistake. The separateness is only like the branch that grows out of a trunk, the unity of the life of the tree passes into every branch and makes them all a oneness."
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"All Nature is one. The expression of the one Divine Will is Nature."
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"There must be knowledge and recognition of the One on whom all worlds are built, the Self eternal and unchanging that throws out universes, as a spider throws out webs, and draws them in again (Mundakopanishad, i. I. 7). One must recognize the one Existence which is at the root of all, supreme...the One without a second."
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"As salt in water, as butter in milk, the One Life is in all, invisible to the eye but immanent in everything."
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"All of us, if we only think of it, are at work to carve our own life into a perfect image, the image of the Divine manifest in humanity."
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"There is no separateness in the universe, but only the appearance of separation. The One without a second who alone exists, who is the one Reality, THAT is the Self of each, the One Life."
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"As we think, thoughts go out to mold the thoughts and lives of others. As we think thoughts of love and gentleness, the whole reservoir of love in the world is filled to overflowing. As we contribute to this, so we contribute to forming public opinion that molds humanity's ideas more than we dream. Everyone has a share in this."
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"If God is all-pervading and everywhere, Divinity must be in the marketplace as much as in the desert, in the bank as much as in the jungle, in the court of law as much as in the solitary mountain."
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"The very heart of the universe is love."
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"Only as we serve and love those around us will the eyes of the Spirit begin to open."
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"No effort for human good is wasted, no good work fails. The form in which the work is embodied may crumble, but the life remains."
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"God is always an artist. There is nothing, however small, no animal seen only in the microscope that is not perfect in its beauty. The more closely you examine it, the more exquisite does it become. With minute diatoms that you can only see through the microscope, every minute shell is sculptured with patterns geometrically perfect – for whom? For the satisfaction of that sense of perfection, which is one of the divine elements in God and humans alike."
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"The very Self of all is Light and Love."
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"While the consciousness identifies itself with forms, it appears to be multiple; when it identifies itself as life, it stands forth as one."
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"Our destiny is one: the perfection of a divine humanity that is one in origin and one in training."
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"Our essential nature is divine, and the effort to realize it helps its growth and manifestation. Pure, passionless, peaceful, it is 'the Star that shines within,' and that Star is our Self."
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"The way to tread the Path that leads to the Place of Peace is to endeavor to identify our consciousness with the True Self, to see as it sees, to judge as it judges."
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"God is expressed in the universe, which is His living garment." Baruch Spinoza, 'Short Studies'
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"The basis of all emotions on the side of progress is love, and this is the power we must cultivate."
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"Humans, as well as all other parts of the universe, live and move and have their being in the One."
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"There is but one life, without beginning and without ending."
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"The world is the thought of God, the expression of the Divine Mind."
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"Out of the One Eternal Source of Life – the Self of all – come the various sparks that are spiritual Intelligences in every grade of evolution."
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"The beatific vision is the sight of the one life in everything, and all things as expressions of that life."
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