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A hurricane never lasts beyond the morning, Nor does a rainstorm endure the livelong day. Yang Hsiung 53 BC - 18 AD

The lotus flower sends forth pure white blossoms from roots sunk deep in muddy water. Daisaku Ikeda

Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? Rumi

The moment you accept what trouble you've been given, the door will open. Rumi

Because God is pure imagination and the only creator, if you imagine a state and bring it to pass, you have found Him. Neville Goddard

I believe the purpose of death is the release of love. Laurie Anderson

The law of octaves explains why there are no straight lines in nature… In order to understand the meaning of this law it is necessary to regard the universe as consisting of vibrations. P. D. Ouspensky

If you pray from your heart, you don't even need to make a sound or say a word. God accepts it and prefers it that way. Suleyman Dede

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin

The universe as a Being is trying to reveal its software through its hardware… and we're not listening. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

Creativity…is usually the clash of two value systems or traditions, which, in collision, create a transcendent third thing. David Brooks

Don't push the river, it flows by itself it flows above us, and beneath us, but in the middle, we dance in the moonlight — at the river's edge. Alida Brill

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. Anais Nin

If man sees hazard as a misfortune rather than an opportunity, he will seek to close the door to freedom rather than keep it open. J.G. Bennett

The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. …If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door. Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him.” Richard Grossinger

“You must lose in order to win. You have lost something to gain everything. Through my love you shall be redeemed and resurrected.” Meher Baba

The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. Francis Weller

The Way is perfect like vast space where nothing is lacking and nothing in excess... Obey the nature of things (your own nature) and you will walk freely and undisturbed. The Third Patriarch of Zen Hsin Hsin Ming by Seng-T'san

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. C.S. Lewis

There is no free will. Everything is in accordance with the working out of one's own sanskaras, and even this depends on the preordained plan set in execution with the emergence of the original whim of God. Meher Baba

In the spiritual world, it is the unpredictable, the unexpected that happens. It is the realm of freedom. It is spontaneity. J.G. Bennett