Spira Quotes & Sayings

Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues. — Noam Chomsky

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old. — Naomi Shihab Nye

The world is known by the senses
The senses are known by the mind
The mind is known by Consciousness
And Consciousness is known by itself — Rupert Spira

Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects. — Rupert Spira

It was the kind of early-fall day Rachel had always loved, not warm or cold, the sky all deep-blue and cloudless and no breeze, the crops proud and ripe and the leaves so pretty but hardly a one yet fallen
a day so perfect that the earth itself seemed sorry to let it pass, so slowed down its roll into evening and let it linger. — Ron Rash

I began to wonder why we cuddle some animals and put a fork in others. — Henry Spira

IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness. — Rupert Spira

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done. — John Travolta

Animal liberation is also human liberation. Animal liberationists care about the quality of life for all. We recognize our kinship with all feeling beings. We identify with the powerless and the vulnerable, the victims, all those dominated, oppressed and exploited. And it is the non-human animals whose suffering is the most intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned of all. — Henry Spira

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism. — Henry Spira

If you Never Give Up, you can Beat The Best !! — Manu Pratap

We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness. — Rupert Spira

On the day of the Boston Marathon bombings, for example, I actually knew more about what had happened than the CAPCOM I'd called. — Chris Hadfield

Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others. — Rupert Spira

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere. — Rupert Spira

Oh my God! She is so cute! Can you even imagine how adorable their little ginger babies would be?" April — Helena Hunting

Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience ... this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances. — Rupert Spira

Squashed behind The Cloud of Unknowing we discovered a pocket-size spiral notebook with a day-by-day account of the time Justin had stayed with her and her husband after Tommy's death. The writing was legible though it required effort (this was before she took her calligraphy course), but Justin was ecstatic and asked if he could have the little notebook. "This is my history," he said. Later, after he had deciphered every last word: "Boy, was I loved. — Gail Godwin

The greatest discovery in life is to discover that our essential nature does not share the limits nor the destiny of the body and mind. — Rupert Spira

We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal. — Rupert Spira

Looking for happiness in the body, mind or world is like looking for the screen in a movie. The screen doesn't appear in the movie, and yet, at the same time, all that is seen in the movie is the screen. In the same way that the screen 'hides' in plain view, so happiness 'hides' in all experience. — Rupert Spira

She who only finds her self-esteem
In others' admiration, begs an alms;
Depends on others for her daily food,
And is the very servant of her slaves;
Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour,
O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert,
Which not ennobles but degrades her state. — Joanna Baillie

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. — Rupert Spira

He's going to come for her. He always does.
Then we will fight him. — Gordon Andrews

In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything. — Rupert Spira

Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment. — Rupert Spira

Spira, spera.

(breathe, hope) — Victor Hugo

The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make. — Rupert Spira

Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough. — Henry Spira

Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery. — Janelle Monae

Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection
intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces. — Jess C. Scott

Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for knowledge." Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing. — Hannah Arendt

The mind, the body and the world are made out of Consciousness but Consciousness is not made out of them. It is made out of itself. Therefore everything is made only out of Consciousness. — Rupert Spira

Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind. — Rupert Spira

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests. — Henry Spira

If life becomes one naval lint fuzzball after another, enjoy picking naval lint. Be open to the changes that life brings. Find a way to make the best life you can for yourself, regardless of the situation. Look to stay healthy and stay positive in your thinking. Focus on the good parts of your life. Be content with finding happiness in everyday events. Add fun and silliness to your life. Whatever you end up doing find the joy in it. — Susan Spira

When feeling is divested of the feeler and the felt, it shines as love; when seeing is divested of the seer and the seen, it shines as beauty. — Rupert Spira