It is love, not religion, that creates spiritual growth (S.R.)
Those ... religions which claim some singular relationship with God, claim superiority over others, or exclude people for various reasons, go against God's law that we love one another as we love ourselves (S.R.)
One good deed is worth a thousand prayers (Zarathushtra)
The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds (E.C.)
By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes of purity and truth we acquire great treasures (Buddha)
There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable (Mahatma Gandhi)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. (Albert Einstein)
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live (Albert Einstein)
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle (Albert Einstein)
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth (Ben Johnson)
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter (Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory)
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth … home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. (Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences)
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it (J.R.)
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy (Albert Einstein)
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth (Niels Bohr)
There is no reality in the absence of observation (The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics)
There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come (Victor Hugo)
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