Genevieve's Quotes: Spirituality & Mental Science
One who is born, will meet death,
One who meets will one day separate,
One who has seen the light, would have met darkness before,
One who knows laughter, knows tears as well,
One who experiences happiness, would have known grief,
One who has success, would have tasted failure...
Can you not see then, that life is so momentary and fleeting? Nothing is permanent including feelings and expressions. It is all Maya, Maya, Maya (illusion). What is good today becomes bad tomorrow. What is bad today can also become good tomorrow. Who is close to you today can become distant tomorrow, and who is distant today can also become close tomorrow. Such is the duality of life.
Why take success, possessions, name and relationships so seriously then? When they come, they come. When it is time for them to go, they go. We bring nothing to the grave. Just continue your journey in fulfilling the mission that you have set for yourself in this life and leave the rest. You are expected to be nothing more than just the Self.
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"Just because one enjoys silence and loves some alone time does not mean that one is anti-social."
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"Greetings warriors. May all of us do our best to see the glass half-full instead of focusing on the glass being half-empty today. The fault does not lie with our situations/circumstances but with our vision. Only when one's vision is transformed will our feelings about life change as well. The art of right-thinking may not be acquired overnight, but with intense training as the Master of the mind, one will definitely get there."
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"God is always just. It is man's tendencies and habits that make everything seems unjust.
Everyone out there who has made it to the top has experienced a 'breaking point' at some point of their life. They made sure this 'breaking point' did not break them, but instead mould them to be stronger people to fight the turbulence of life. If you read more, you will find out that most of them actually in some way attribute their success to these seemingly 'unfortunate' phases of their life as they used their newly-discovered courage to improve themselves to be better than before.
Therefore, do not resist challenges that may come your way. You never know whether these challenges will be your 'breaking point' when you will say, "I have had enough of my current life. I will now show the world what I am truly made of!" And you will.
Receive challenges with open arms and embrace them. The way you overcome them defines who you are."
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"Do not get upset with people or situations, both are powerless without your reaction. Stay well."
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One solves nothing when one is de-spirited. Complaints do not create solutions. Man should learn how to re-direct his energy to seek for the solution within instead of wasting it on focusing on the problems he wishes to make disappear. How can anything disappear when one keeps talking about it? The problems shall persist because you are breathing it and re-living it over and over again with your emotions. These negative thoughts fuel your anger and resentment, and will lead to bad decisions that can impact your life.
Whatever it is, it is a fact and will remain a fact until you change that 'fact' in your mind. Only when you have changed it in your mind will you plant a mental seed to let a new circumstance grow out of it to become your objective reality. Have faith in the natural Law of this Universe, persevere and as your faith, so be it unto you.
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How is it difficult to develop faith? You're putting faith in everything every single day. You go to sleep at night because you have faith that you will wake up in the morning. When you take a taxi, you are putting your faith in the driver that he will take you from point A to point B safely. People employ maids these days and they must have some form of faith in them before they are willing to part with their children and put them under their helpers' care? Human beings can have so much faith in others but they find it so difficult to have faith in the Self?
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Then how should a spiritual teacher appear to you? In a saffron robe 24/7? A teacher whom you can find only deep in the forest? A teacher who sits on the rock the entire day? I know of tortoises that fulfill all those criteria. Do you then take the animal as your spiritual Guru?
First and foremost, what is "detachment"? Just because one lives in a comfortable house or use advanced electronic gadgets such as an iPhone or iPad does not mean he/she is attached to it. Just because one struts around naked in the jungle and meditates on a rock does not mean that he/she is detached either.
And what has your spirituality got to do with the Guru's clothing or his/her possessions? Why do you need to even have a spiritual Guru if all you are doing is judging the other person's appearance? To respect someone as a spiritual teacher is not like shopping from a catalogue. You don't choose how your Guru is supposed to be. Spiritual teachers are not here to conform to their disciples' whims and fancies. Do you seek a spiritual Guru to acquire the spiritual wisdom that he/she has to offer or do you seek a spiritual Guru for his/her appearances?
Everything changes according to time. Millions of years ago, people use to strut around naked. Is Man still doing the same? So you see, we adapt according to time. What makes spiritual Gurus so special that they have to still stick to practices that belonged to the stone age?
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God is all-pervasive. Mind itself is God. When I said life should minus desire, it means desire no longer. Just live as though your 'desire' or goal already is. Then you shall desire no longer because you cannot want something that is already yours. And when you live as though it already is, the structure is already created in the 4th dimensional world and it will materialise itself in the 3rd dimensional world in good time.
Man is made in the image of God. How sure are you that the person-in-question does not want to become more affectionate? Everyone has been created out of Love and Love is the very essence of Man and God. You are not forcing a person on the outside to become more affectionate, but communicating to him subconsciously of that intention. If he was not created to be affectionate, why then did the seed of that desire exist in you? If he was created to Love and is capable to show affection but is unable to due to some emotional blockage, isn't it selfish then of you not to help him subconsciously to express that affection?
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Vision should not be by sight, but by faith. We see not with our eyes, but our heart. Everything appears as they are in accordance to our very own beliefs. Anything that you can see and touch with your physical eyes aren't real. They are mere projections of the mind. Without the mind, one cannot differentiate one colour from another. One will also not know good from bad. While the mind is the one projecting our beliefs into the so-called reality we all live in, it is also the mind that attaches itself to various forms of its own creation and thereby falls as a victim to itself. Without the mind, one knows not what is happiness and grief. The entire world is in fact just a play of illusion. This is what we call Leela-Maya. Once you have discovered the trick your mind is playing, making you believe and attached to fleeting things, you will realise that without the mind, nothing exists. There only IS.
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People who come into your experience are just yardsticks for you to measure your spiritual progress.
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Nothing is unless you say it is.
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When you gaze at the moon, what do you see? Just as the moon reflects light from the sun at night, our mind reflects the divinity within as well amidst Maya (illusion).
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Love is the one and only key.
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Apart from one's official documents, who ever said you were born a Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim?
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Faith is not a leap into the dark, but a step into the light.
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True honour is not derived from winning a battle that is fought for oneself but from fighting a battle that is meant to uplift others.
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Be grateful for all the obstacles in your life. They have strengthened you as you continue with your journey.
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Life is an amazing journey. Stretch out your arms and embrace it.
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There is nothing more beautiful than the smile of a child. In their eyes, one can see the impressions of their past but out of God's love, he/she is given another chance of life to start with a new slate in his/her continuous effort to know that "I AM He".
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