"We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way."

-- Surya Das

#Spiritual Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.”
“Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.”
“Leaders are creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.”
“If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.”
“If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.”
“Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves.”
“The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2009). “The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks”
“Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.”

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