Enlightenment Daily Calendar - Top 10 Quotes of 2017

There are so many great quotes in the Enlightenment Daily Calendar. We hear regularly that the quotes randomly chosen have a way of speaking to exactly what a person needs each day. For fun, we picked 10 of our favorites to share with you!

Here are our top 10 choices from 2017...counting down to our number one favorite quote of the year.

#10:
​"One ceases to judge
anyone or anything by
its external appearance;
instead one looks within to the  perfection of the Ascendant shining clearly inside them all."
Pada III Sutra 54

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#9:
"The heart, increasingly  soothed and gladdened by      the experience of the Infinite within, rises in larger and ever-larger waves of bliss, love, appreciation and gratitude."
Pada I Sutra 47

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#8:
"One can strain to be pure
but never truly know if one is acting purely or not. On the other hand, it is impossible for the Ascendant ever to be impure."
​Pada II Sutra 32

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#7
"If the awareness is
​continually turning back toward the Ascendant,
there is no time left
for it to be caught by
the old boundaries
​of belief and habit."
Pada II Sutra 9

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#6
"If one is straight and clear inside, the path is straight
and clear. This is not dependent on the external world, it is entirely
​dependent on the internal."
PadaIII Sutra? 

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#5
"Higher thoughts are those that
are caused by nature; these
​are the thoughts that are intimately related to the flood of evolutionary transformation, those that lead to Unified Consciousness."
​Pada IV Sutra 5

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#4
"Said another way, one learns      to intercept unwanted thoughts closer and closer to their inception and turn them back to the Self before they can produce undesirable effects."
Pada III Sutra 12

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#3
"As the mind focuses
on a single appropriate object, the fluctuations
of thought naturally  settle into the One,
​the Ascendant."
Pada III Sutra 7

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#2
"There are no external
signs of enlightenment.
That bears repeating!
There are no external
​signs of enlightenment."
Pada II Sutra 31

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#1
"Consciousness is
 omnipresent; therefore
the ability to  
​automatically extend it    everywhere is inherent within it."
Pada III Sutra 20

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