"Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint."

-- Mata Amritanandamayi

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“Voter apathy is a civic abdication.”

Source : "We Should Be in a Rage" by Charles M. Blow, www.nytimes.com. April 9, 2014.
“Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.”
“Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.”

Source : Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.37, Conari Press
“Aristippus said that a wise man's country was the world.”
“If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!”
“To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial
“If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.”
“All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.”

Source : Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.13, Travelers' Tales

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