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The Flight of the Feathered Serpent.

 

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Never feel so perfect that you let your guard down or ease vigilance. Love yourself well, but don't prostitute yourself.
This quote highlights the importance of those small instances in which we forget ourselves and go against what we know is right. It helped me to see what I am willing to sell myself out on. I have the quote as my background image on my desktop so that I can see it often.
~ gabrielle
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To love oneself is to yearn for spiritual development and this requires normality. Someone who suffers an inhibition or a frustration can't love himself.
I think one of the most prevalent messages in this book is about true spiritual love - it really shows through in the story of Jesus and Judas. Teachings like this have helped me to work on myself so that I can be a source of love.
~ Jon H.
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"...soon after dealing with him, one couldn't help but notice the most extraordinary fact that I have come across in my agitated life: he was a smile. He was a smile from head to toe. He didn't smile, he didn't need to smile; he was that smile all over. This impression reached me in a very curious manner and it is difficult to explain."
I'd like to be a smile one day :-) Seriously, I've always been impressed by this quote, by the consequence and potential of having the spiritual within and how it can impact others... As soon as I've read this part, I just knew I had to read the rest.
~ Jenny R
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"When it is known what one wants and one fights to achieve it, even if it is not formulated in words, one is in permanent prayer."
There is a tendency to ask for help and not really putting any work into things. Putting in as much effort as I can, I can then see a real need for help, and with this effort and understanding help does come.
~ Trent
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"Truth is always bitter for the sleeping one, because it takes him out of his drowsiness."
When looking for real spiritual things, it’s easy to expect that it all must be nice. However, learning to expect and overcome difficulties is important in spirituality.
~ Matija
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"When we want to be better and don't necessarily know for ourselves what is best or worse, we easily fall into absurdities and become slaves to what others determine best or worse. In every human being there is a Judge always ready to guide us."
Sometimes I act the same as people who I think know more than me. This creates ideas about spirituality, which become a blockage to finding the truth. If I can listen to the internal voice it's a much better way of living and responding to life!
~ David G.
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"Each man who aspires to this vigilance must make his own track and walk alone, attentive solely on the step of the instance, without being preoccupied with either triumph or defeat, or uneasy about his earthly end. This is to live in the Eternal Now."
What a sense of relief to stop the internal chatter! It feels a little like time is standing still for an instant, and then another instant - and I start to get a tiny glimmer of how wonderful it might be to really live in the Eternal Now…
~ Vicki
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"The Path starts in the physical body with the five senses. To awaken is to use them, and not to confuse them with you."
This simple clue helped me investigate living in the present moment. It showed me how awareness entails using the five senses consciously and experiencing the detachment that can make me feel like I’m something more than just the physical body.
~ Knut
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