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The Guru's Grace (spiritual teacher) is both external and internal. From the outside, he pushes the mind inwards, and from the inside he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps it keep quiet. That is the grace. There is no difference between God, guru and Self. A guru's help is necessary and useful to start you on the inquiry, but you yourself must pursue it.

Over and over we try and try and then we 'fail'.

Then, at some point, we learn

to go deeper.

#ShunryuSuzuki

"Protect yourself from your own thoughts."

#Rumi

The inspiration you seek is already within you.

Be silent and listen.

#Rumi

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees.

Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

#Rumi

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Silence of the Heart

by #RobertAdams

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What l'm trying to show you is, you cannot depend on anything in the world for your happiness or your peace. It's a false premise.

#RobertAdams

No matter what happens to your body, meditate. Never go to sleep at night until you have communed With God. Your body will remind you that you have worked hard and need rest, but the more you ignore its demands and concentrate on the Lord, the more you will burn With joyous life, like a globe afire. Then you will know that you are not the body. #ParamahansaYogananda

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"Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me, in the hall of Eternity I shall be the same."

#AnandamayeeMa

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Being motherly means being capable of unconditional love.

#Osho

Learn to accept life as it comes. When something happens, accept it. When it disappears, accept it. When pleasure comes, accept it. When it evaporates, accept it. And the same with pain: remain non judgmental, just a silent witness to all. This is the most profound secret of all the Buddhas, of all the awakened ones.

#Osho

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"Don't focus so much on what you looking at,

But where are you looking from, And who are you looking at. "

#mooji