{"author":"Anthon St. Maarten","author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["abusive-partners","aura","bad-friends","bad-relationships","blaming-others","create-reality","demanding-people","difficult-people","drain-energy","draining","empath","energy-field","energy-healing","energy-thieves","family-members","fear","love-hurts","narcissists","negative-nellies","negative-people","psychic-protection","psychic-vampires","reality-experience","self-awareness","self-pity","selfish-people","steal-energy","stealing-your-thunder","toxic-people","toxic-relationships"],"id":39601,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["analytical","consciousness-mind-brain","ego","false-belief","intuition","intuitive","logical-thinking","perception","rational","soul-growth","spiritual-awareness","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","unconscious","unconscious-mind"],"id":63744,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"These days when you kiss a prince you often run the risk of turning him into a frog. But don't let the ogres in shining armor get you down. There is no need for distress - you don't want to be anyone's damsel anyway. Simply remind yourself that you are busy racking up those 'frequent failure points' that will eventually pay for an all expenses paid trip to Mr Right.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["damsel-in-distress","dating","disaster-date","everlasting-love","failure-relationship","fairy-tales","fairy-tales-for-adults","fairytale","fairytale-romance","finding-love","frog-prince","frog-wisdom","frogs","kissing-frogs","kissing","kissing-spells","knight-in-shining-armor","love-hurts","love","love-story","love-waits","lovers","mr-right","myths","ogre","relationship-advice","relationship-problems","relationships","romance","soulmate","soulmate-secret","true-love-spell","twin-flames"],"id":68213,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["authenticity","be-you","be-yourself","be-yourself","believe-in-yourself","bravery","columbus","courage","exploration","fake-people","fear","fearless","fearlessness","geniune","honesty","imperfection","inauthenticity","inner-peace","inner-strength","insecurity","limitations","masks","masquerade","phoney","pretending","pretense","pretentiousness","real","self-awareness","self-belief","self-esteem","self-love","self-realization","true-self","vulnerability"],"id":130657,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["appreciation","blessing","blessings","blessings-in-disguise","curse","dark-night-of-the-soul","desperation","dualism","duality","gratitude","happiness","joy","life-journey","life-lessons","light-and-darkness","pearls","sadness","tears","wisdom","yin-and-yang"],"id":135835,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["be-strong-and-positive","brave","courage","emotional-healing","emotional-health","empowering","feeling-sorry-for-yourself","healing-the-past","inner-strength","inspirational-living","overcoming-adversity","personal-responsibility","pity-party","pity-self-destruction","rising-above-your-past","rising-strong","self-empowerment","self-harm","self-imposed-pain","self-mutilation","self-pity","self-pity","soul-searching","spiritual-development","spiritual-healing","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","strength-through-adversity","suffering","suicide","tough-times","victim","victim-mentality"],"id":179335,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["bigotry","coercion","controlling","diversity","extremism","freedom","harmony","morality","peace-on-earth","political-domination","politics","power","prejudice","prosperity","religious-freedom","religious-tolerance"],"id":196664,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Not accomplishing your Life Plan is a tragic act of free will. It is akin to charting an elaborate vacation itinerary before arriving at your holiday destination, with all kinds of plans for outdoor adventures and intentions to go sightseeing and shopping, but then ending up spending the whole trip in your hotel room ordering from room service and watching television. In a similar fashion the unconscious soul spends a lifetime in the semi-conscious state of Divine Disconnection and then returns home mostly ‘empty-handed’.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["awakening","awareness","consciousness","destined","destiny","determinism","divine-connection","divine-disconnect","divine-living","divine-self","free-will","god-s-plan","higher-consciousness","higher-self","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-calling","life-goals","life-journey","life-lessons","life-mission","life-philosophy","life-plan","life-purpose","life","meaning-of-life","meaninglessness-of-life","purpose-in-life","purpose-of-life","purpose-of-living","purposeful-living","reality-coma","soul","soul-purpose","spiritual","spiritual-awakening","spiritual-awareness","spiritual-growth","spiritual-insights","spiritual-life","spiritual-unconsciousness","unawakened","unconsciousness"],"id":206830,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["desires","dreamers","dreams","fantasy","goal-setting","goals","goals-in-life","ideas","imagination","intention","magic","magick","manifestation","manifesting","mind-power","self-belief","self-improvement","self-realization","wish-creation","wishes","wishful-thinking","wishing"],"id":220522,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}