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Nun Inspirational Quotes (405)

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the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.
Ayya Khema
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If you lose interest in the dharma, then you might be reborn in a place where you are unlikely to meet with the dharma. And then you're completely off the path.
Tenzin Palmo
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I am the fiery life of the essence of God I am the flame above the beauty in the fields I shine in the waters I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.
Hildegard of Bingen
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Obviously the dharma is every breath we take, every thought we think, every word we speak, if we do it with awareness and an open, caring heart.
Tenzin Palmo
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Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.
Tenzin Palmo
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People get very deep experiences and they think they're enlightened. That's not enlightenment, that's just some realization.
Tenzin Palmo
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Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.
Hildegard of Bingen
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Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
Wendy Beckett
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In fact there are beautiful people in this world doing incredibly selfless acts over and over and over. Dedicating their lives completely for the welfare and happiness of others.
Tenzin Palmo
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Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.
Jane Frances de Chantal
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Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.
Catherine McAuley
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I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.
Maria Monk
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The Buddha always emphased the important of good friends.
Tenzin Palmo
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We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
Marie de France
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Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
Hildegard of Bingen
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Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
Hildegard of Bingen
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In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.
Tenzin Palmo
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Because we're trying, because we want, it's very hard to get.
Tenzin Palmo
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Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.
Hildegard of Bingen
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It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.
Marion Irvine
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... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice ... Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.
Angela of Foligno
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The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.
Maria Monk
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Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?
Janet Erskine Stuart
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