"The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness."

-- Tara Brach

#Spiritual Quotes #Self Quotes #Trying Quotes

“All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.”
“My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside; and, with all its elements alike, every sphere is opaque to the others which surround it [] In brief, regarded as an existence which appears in a soul, the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.”

Source : "Only a great writer can share the suffering of Auschwitz" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2014.
“The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.”
“Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.”
“I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.”
“Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.”
“We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1980.

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