Shri Mataji: "So rejoice and be happy that what Christ did 2,000 years back, today we are going to do it."

"The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances."

Robert Flatt

"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there."

Clarence W. Hall

"It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls.
Katherine Lee Bates"

"The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice."

Henry Knox Sherrill

"Could life so end, half told; its school so fail? Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!"

Robert Mowry Bell

"Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless."

Charles M. Crowe Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;
Death is strong, but Life is stronger;
Stronger than the dark, the light;
Stronger than the wrong, the right..."

Phillips Brooks, "An Easter Carol"

"Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise.""

Phillips Brooks

"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."

Douglas Horton

"Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life."

S.D. Gordon

"Celestial spirit that doth roll
The heart's sepulchral stone away,
Be this our resurrection day,
The singing Easter of the soul -
O gentle Master of the Wise,
Teach us to say: "I will arise.""

Richard Le Gallienne

"Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown."

Author unknown, as quoted in the Lewiston Tribune

"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds."

Joseph Addison

"Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing."

Albert Laighton

"The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watch
Before the Easter morn.
So pure, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding air,
I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings
If one should earthward fare."

Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Morning"

"But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust."

Walter Raleigh

"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For I remember it is Easter morn,
And life and love and peace are all new born."

Alice Freeman Palmer

"Thou art the Sun of other days.
They shine by giving back the rays."

John Keble, The Christian Year: Easter Days

"We live and die; Christ died and lived!"

John Stott

"Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!"

Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

"Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter."

Benjamin Franklin

"See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices..."

Charles Kingsley

"Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Spanish Student

"Once more to new creation Awake,
and death gainsay,
For death is swallowed up of life,
And Christ is risen today!"

George Newell Lovejoy

"Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness."

Floyd W. Tomkins

"There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou - Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed."

Emily Bronte

"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here."

St Augustine

"Ye sleeping buds, break
Open your green cerements, and wake
To fragrant blossoming for His sweet sake."

Margaret French Patton

"The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise."

Carl Knudsen

"Angels, roll the rock away;
Death, yield up thy mighty prey:
See, He rises from the tomb,
Glowing with immortal bloom."

Thomas Scott, "Easter Angels"

"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood."

Wallace Stevens, 1916

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time."

Martin Luther

"I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!"

Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"

"Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out."

Bertran de Born

"Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals."

Charles M. Crowe

"God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress."

Robert South, Sermons

The Great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi "For that, Christ crucified Himself. He resurrected Himself so that you all could be resurrected. So you have to today thank Him for giving you the lead of Resurrection, and in this lifetime only you are going to be resurrected and you are going to see, with your own eyes, your Resurrection as the disciples saw the Resurrection of Christ. This is being all promised and this must happen to all of you.

So we should rejoice and be happy that the time has come for the Resurrection and such a Great Event we are facing. We are such a people. Give up our small visions and our petty hankerings, our small little lives in which we live like frogs. Expand yourself and think that today you are facing the drama of mass Resurrection, not only that, but you are maneuvering it. So rejoice and be happy that what Christ did 2,000 years back, today we are going to do it. That's why Easter is a special day for all of us. It really is a very special day because in our lives the death has died and we are resurrected. May God bless you."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
The Meaning Of Easter, Easter Day, London, U.K. — April 6, 1980

"So, you're so fortunate that you have got your Realization, your Resurrection, but now have faith in that Resurrection of yours. In your Resurrection that is your being now and with that you will know how precious you are for the whole world and that what you have to do is not to think of material gains, physical gains or some emotional gains, but spiritual gains."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Resurrection; Faith, Easter Puja, Rome, Italy — April 11, 1993

"Today is the day we are celebrating Easter. Easter is extremely symbolic of not only of Christ but also for all of us, in that the most important day is that of the Resurrection. The Resurrection of Christ has the Message of Christianity. Through Resurrection Christ has shown than one can be resurrected with the body that you have."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Self-Knowledge For Resurrection, Easter Puja,
Calcutta, India — March 14, 1995

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www.adi-shakti.org/  — Divine Feminine (Hinduism)
www.holyspirit-shekinah.org/  — Divine Feminine (Christianity)
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www.great-spirit-mother.org/  — Divine Feminine (Native Traditions)

"Now, the principle of Mother is in every, every scripture - has to be there." Shri Mataji, Radio Interview 1983 Oct 01, Santa Cruz, USA