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Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya) Quotes and Poems

Rabia al-Basri (713 - 801) was a Sufi mystic saint, who's widely recognized as being the most influential and notable female Sufi mystic in Islamic history. She did not leave any written work of her own, as most of the sources of the quotes and stories attributed to...

Duncan Trussell Quotes

Duncan Trussell is an American comedian, actor and philosopher. He is best known as a standup comedian, but has recently amassed a loyal following on his podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour and on Joe Rogan's podcast. He is known for his humour and wisdom on the...

Non-Duality Quotes (Advaita Vedanta)

Non-duality is about experiencing reality as it is, one undivided whole. Duality pertains to the mind while reality transcends the mind. Duality is a way of perceiving, and not the actuality of the whole. The truth of the whole is neither one nor two. It is simply...

10 Stoic Quotes on Love and Affection

The stoics are best known for their discipline, wisdom and dedication to virtue. We rarely hear about their thoughts around the topic of love and affection. With that in mind, here are a collection of 10 notable quotes on love, friendship and affection by the greatest...

Bulleh Shah Quotes and Poems

Bulleh Shah (1680-1757) was a Punjabi Sufi mystic poet, humanist and philosopher who lived during the Mughal Empire and era. He is best known for his devotional sufi poems dedicated to the Beloved. Seek the spirit, forget the form. Bulleh Shah Enough is enough, talk...

40 Insightful Quotes by the Stoic Philosophers

The stoic philosophers of the ancient world were wise individuals that's for sure. The main goal of their philosophy was mostly directed towards the cultivation of virtue and the conscious detachment from no-good passions, which all mortal men were inclined with. The...

50+ Wise and Inspirational Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reul Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English writer, poet and professor. He is best known for his highly successful fantasy books, most notably "The Lord of the Rings". Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, an area that is now part of South Africa, in 1892. His...

Walter Hilton: 11 Spiritual Quotes by the Christian Mystic

Walter Hilton was a English mystic in the 14th century. He is best known for his work "The Ladder of Perfection" and for being one of the first to write mystic theology in the English language. Walter Hilton was born in either 1340 or 1345, and seems to have studied...

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley (Quotes & Excerpts)

The day is November 22, 1963, and Aldous Huxley is lying on his deathbed, in the last terminal stages of a metastatic laryngeal cancer, unable to speak he then suddenly hints at his wife Laura to fetch him a piece of paper. On it he wrote: LSD - try it intermuscular....

14 Powerful Stoic Quotes on Pain and Pleasure

There is something meaningful to be said about pain, pleasure and how we as humans relate to these two phenomena. Intrinsically it seems that all animals, us included, strive towards maximizing pleasure while trying to minimize pain. But what are these two things?...
Stoic Quotes on Happiness

Stoic Quotes on Happiness

Is happiness the goal of all life? Are all organisms and life-forms essentially trying to become "happy" or fulfilled in their own unique way? Or is happiness merely a construct of the human imagination, a concept and story that we tell ourselves to comfort ourselves...

20 Spiritual Quotes by the Neoplatonists of the Ancient World

20 Spiritual Quotes by the Neoplatonists of the Ancient World

Derived from the thoughts of Plato, neoplatonism was a philosophical tradition that took its distinct form in Egypt through the thoughts of the 3rd century Alexandrian philosopher Ammonius Saccas, but reached its climax in the works of his student Plotinus, who was...

Stoic Quotes on Time and Change

Stoic Quotes on Time and Change

Everything is subject to change, whether we like it or not. Contemplating on the constancy of change, whether from a philosophical perspective or a spiritual, can be a great way of cutting away redundant elements present in your life. Whether in the form of bad habits...

21 Spiritual Quotes On Death and Dying

21 Spiritual Quotes On Death and Dying

Our societies here in the western world have done a excellent job of distancing its citizens from the topic of death. Anything related to death and dying has kinda been hidden from the view of the public, where talking about it is almost taboo. In some ways this is...

16 Spiritual Quotes On Awakening and Ego-Death

16 Spiritual Quotes On Awakening and Ego-Death

Ego-death, awakening, enlightenment.. These are some of the words and concepts we hear about in spiritual circles; but what do they really mean? Are there genuine experiences we as humans can have that correspond to these spiritual notions or are they just figments of...

25 Spiritual Quotes on Love and the Mystical Experience

25 Spiritual Quotes on Love and the Mystical Experience

For some love means nothing.. It simply doesn't exist. It's just a made up feel-good word to describe mere chemical reactions in the brain. For others, the so called hopeless romantics, life is all about finding love, the right person or your soulmate. Which of these...

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