{"quotes":[{"text":"Remember seeker, our earthly perceptions of reality are just an illusion.","author":"Earthschool Harmony","tags":["awakened","awakening","back-to-grace","consciousness","earth","earthschool-harmony","healing","illusion","illusions","knowing","mindfulness","perception","reality","remember","soulfood","spiritual-awakening","spiritual-path"],"id":22581,"author_id":"Earthschool+Harmony"},{"text":"Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be filled with peace and joy from the very beginning. Their absence is an indication that something is amiss. (125).","author":"Prem Prakash","tags":["devotion","joy","peace","spiritual-path","spirituality"],"id":31308,"author_id":"Prem+Prakash"},{"text":"All the various types of teachings and spiritual paths are related to the different capacities of understanding that different individuals have. There does not exist, from an absolute point of view, any teaching which is more perfect or effective than another. A teaching's value lies solely in the inner awakening which an individual can arrive at through it. If a person benefits from a given teaching, for that person that teaching is the supreme path, because it is suited to his or her nature and capacities. There's no sense in trying to judge it as more or less elevated in relation to other paths to realization.","author":"Namkhai Norbu","tags":["path","spiritual-path"],"id":40941,"author_id":"Namkhai+Norbu"},{"text":"[A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57).","author":"Prem Prakash","tags":["practitioner","spiritual-path","spirituality"],"id":46124,"author_id":"Prem+Prakash"},{"text":"Every negative complex of emotion conceals a conflict, a problem or dilemma made up of contradictory or opposing motives or desires. Self-observation must recover these emotional seeds of the dramatization of life if real control of habits is to occur. Otherwise, mere control of habits will itself become a form of dramatized conflict or warfare with the motives of our lives. Food desires, sex desires, relational desires, desires for experience and acquisition, for rest, for release, for attention, for solitude, for life, for death, the whole pattern of desires must come under the view of consciousness, the aspects of the conflicts must be differentiated, and habits must be controlled to serve well-being or the pleasurable and effective play of Life.This whole process is truly possible only in the midst of the prolonged occasion of spiritual life in practice, since the mere mechanical and analytical attempts at self-liberation and self-healing do not undermine the principal emotion or seat of conflict, which is the intention to identify with a separate self sense and to reject and forget the prior and natural Condition of Unqualified or Divine Consciousness.","author":"Adi Da Samraj","tags":["desire","habit","spiritual-path"],"id":102596,"author_id":"Adi+Da+Samraj"},{"text":"Be open to the possibility that there are other paths available to you in relating to yourself and to another.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["love","personal-growth","real-love","real-love","relationship","relationships","spiritual-path"],"id":134589,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"Life is about enjoying the journey, not the end destination.","author":"Molly Friedenfeld","tags":["journeys","life","soul-searching","spiritual-path"],"id":135945,"author_id":"Molly+Friedenfeld"},{"text":"We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.","author":"LeeAnn Taylor","tags":["angels","become","becoming","being","butterflies","butterfly","change","chrysalis","earth","god","heaven","inspirational","learning","life","metamorphosis","mortality","planet","spiritual-path","spiritual-progression","transcendence","transformation"],"id":137832,"author_id":"LeeAnn+Taylor"},{"text":"Vibrate higher daily.","author":"Lalah Delia","tags":["awakening","awareness","evolved-consciousness","evolving","growing","happy","healing","higher-self","inner-beauty","inner-peace","inner-self","inner-strength","journey","joy","lalah-delia","love","mindfulness","mindset","minimalism","path","peace","prayer","self-development","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-path","spiritual-sayings","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","transformation","vibrate-higher","yoga"],"id":153283,"author_id":"Lalah+Delia"},{"text":"Regardless of the religious tradition, spiritual path, or personal perspective we choose to embrace, the potential exists for it to encourage and uplift every aspect of our being and to affect the types of goals we may choose to set for ourselves.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["goals","personal-perspective","religious-tradition","spiritual-path"],"id":156313,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}