Quotes About Spirit

We who are living look in the direction of death and imagine it to be a state of bodilessness, in which we are pure spirit. Yet, the dead stare back and image life to be a state of enslavement in matter.

The physical world is like an exquisite Persian Carpet, and Spirit is like the threads that make up the carpet. Spirit then is the ground of our being.

This is because Spirit is as much the Irrational as it is the Rational. Academicians need to show some humility in the face of what will always be Irrational. They only see half the picture.

The followers of Yârsânism, also known as the Yârisân, Aliullâhi, Ali-llâhi (i.e., "those who deify 'Ali-"), Alihaq, Ahl-i Haqq ("the People of Truth") or Ahl-i Haq ("the People of the Spirit" (Hâk or Haqj), are concentrated in southern Kurdistan in both Iran and Iraq. In each epoch there is a female avatar of the Universal Spirit, a reflection of the higher status of women in the Kurdish culture and tradition.

You have the means to direct knowledge of the spiritual worlds. You have the senses that will help you to perceive these subtle spheres. It only remains for you to develop your sleeping powers. The question should not be 'is there life after death', it should be 'what am I doing to awaken my faculties to perceive the spirit worlds?

We suggest that you consistently work throughout your lifetime on the creation of a coherent and integral spirit body. If your mind never turns to the spiritual in life, why do you think it will turn to the spirit in death? If you are not 'at home' with things spiritual, why do you think you will be able to orient yourself when you are thrust into the spirit world? At best, you will be disoriented and uncomfortable.

Spirit is to matter, as ice is to water, in other words: the same substance, but in a different state. As you admire the beauty of the intricate frost lacework on a winter windowpane, you might pause to reflect that invisible lines of force existed before the frost. The cold manifests the beauty of the lines of force.

Each human beings has the sense organs that can experience Spirit; it is just that these organs go undeveloped in most people. The capability of perception is there, but various are the reasons it lies undeveloped. Some people are unaware that these supra-realities exist, others are aware but do not know how to develop the supersensible organs to perceive them, and finally there are those who know but who are afraid.

Spirit continuously manifests matter, and matter continuously manifests spirit.

From out of the spirit worlds matter is continuously being spewed forth. This mystery is like a great ejaculation; the divine convulses in a state of ecstasy and produces matter...and then matter answers as humankind has sex and in the moment of sexual orgasm calls out to God.

We, by our very human and physical natures, permit the Spirit World to Exist! We emanate from our bodies this Spirit World. This reciprocal operation of the cosmos is very important to remember in your magickal workings.

The Spirit World is filled with power, substantiality, and presence. I recommend you work on changing your consciousness with regard to Spirit and begin to see Spirit as the Power Matrix from which the physical world manifests. As a person's spirit eyes start to open he or she will begin to realize that he/she has had it backwards all along...The Physical World is thin and gossamer compared to the Spirit Realm.

We have all unknowingly entered into agreements or soul contracts in the spirit world which direct our behavior in the present moment.

Bees are a recurring symbol of the Merovingians and the humming or buzzing sound of bees is likened to supersensible "sounds" experienced by many Sufis as they enter spirit realms.

The Sufi must feed daily at the waters of the Original Wholeness. We are completely dependent upon Allah. There is no existence but the Ultimate Reality, nor does anything exist other than the Ultimate Reality, 'in that you are His Form, and He is your Spirit.

The Human is part angel, part animal; part God and part Cosmos.

Spirit and Flesh are merely two sides of the same reality; they can be somewhat independently analyzed, but only by acknowledging our being as a TOTALITY can the full REALITY of our existence be known.

The supposed Spirit-Matter duality is based on a misunderstanding of the perception of the Essence. The body is nothing more than a coalesced soul. The soul is nothing more than the mystical body.

The physical world isn't illusion or bad or fallen or maya - it is woven on the loom of the Gods out of Spirit Itself!

The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

The only death the spirit recognizes is the denial of birth to that which strives to be born: those realities in ourselves that we have not allowed to live. The real ghost is a strange, persistent beggar at a narrow door asking to be born; asking, again and again, for admission at the gateway of our lives. Such ghosts I had, and thus, beyond all reason, I continued to be haunted.

From the utopian viewpoint, the United States constitution is a singularly hard-bitten and cautious document, for it breathes the spirit of skepticism about human altruism and incorporates a complex system of checks, balances and restrictions, so that everybody is holding the reins on everybody else.

Mayito began to cry, and it was if my soul had grown a small voice separate from my body.