Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi quotes

“The Secret's message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness.”
-- Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi

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“The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.”
-- Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi

Source : "The Persian Bayán". Book by Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi (Unity II, Chapter 16), 1848.

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“Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.”

Source : "Interview: Owl City's Adam Young and His God-Inspired Music". Interview with Josephine Vivaldo, www.christianpost.com. June 25, 2011.

“Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.”

“The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books

“If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.”

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

“Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”

“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.”

“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.”

“You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!”