Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"The goal is not to be good; the goal is to be alive."
Barbara Brown Taylor
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"Most of us live a very narrow spiritual life within a very narrow bandwidth of ourselves."
Adyashanti
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"Life is not happening to you. Life is what you are."
Adyashanti
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"The purpose of life is to wake up to what you truly are."
Adyashanti
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"Life is calling you to wake up to yourself."
Adyashanti
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"The world reflects back to you what you believe yourself to be."
Rupert Spira
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"The purpose of life is to awaken to what you already are."
Rupert Spira
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"Life is not something happening to you; you are the life happening."
Rupert Spira
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"A life well-lived is not measured in years but in the love we have given."
Francis of Assisi
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"The person who dies having lived for themselves has never truly lived at all."
Francis of Assisi
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"Life is a celebration of consciousness."
Mooji
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"Our life is not our own from birth to death. Rather, from conception to birth to death and beyond, we are received as gifts."
Henri Nouwen
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"Life is a journey of becoming ever more sensitive to God's presence in all moments and situations."
Henri Nouwen
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"We are all pilgrims on a journey toward wholeness, and our brokenness is part of that journey."
Henri Nouwen
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"To live consciously is to live as though every moment matters, because it does."
Henri Nouwen
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"Our restlessness reveals that we have been created for something beyond ourselves."
Henri Nouwen
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"The journey is never finished; it only deepens."
Richard Rohr
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"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
Thomas Merton
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"The life we are living is always the life we need to be living."
Thomas Merton
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"We are not called to be religious but to be alive in the fullest sense."
Thomas Merton
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"Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived."
Thomas Merton
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"When you stop struggling against life, life becomes your dance partner."
Adyashanti
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"Life is not something to figure out; it is something to live."
Adyashanti
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"The present moment contains everything you need."
Mooji
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"The purpose of life is to awaken to what you are."
Mooji
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"The journey is not from here to there; it is from unconsciousness to consciousness."
Mooji
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"Your only job is to be yourself."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Your suffering is of your own making."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"All your problems are thoughts."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"You are not the character in the dream."
Nisargadatta Maharaj