Quotes About Divinity

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

A world without time would be a world without God, a world existing in and by itself, without renewal, without a Creator.

Just as the Shechinah is in exile, so is the Torah in exile.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Zeus'tan baÅŸkas? özgür deÄŸildir.

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. "I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death . . . is the true measure of the Divine within us.

I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.

I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death, Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death... is the true measure of the Divine within us. ... I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.

Jesus never asked us to go on the cross with him and he did not die for your sins. That premise is faulty because Christ is deathless and you have no sins. Instead, he lives for your innocence. He is the model of a man who recognized his innate divinity, the same godliness you own. He does not want you to emulate his crucifixion. He wants you to magnify his resurrection. You don't need to experience crucifixion to gain resurrection. There are easier ways to get to heaven.

If you have space for a flawed person to do great things and succeed, you give yourself the same permission. On a human level, we are all flawed. On a divine level, we are all perfect.

La Santidad me creó santo. La Bondad me creó bondadoso. La Asistencia me creó servicial. La Perfección me creó perfecto.

El Amor, que es lo que me creó, es lo que soy.

You can take the person out of heaven, but you can't take the heaven out of the person.

The immortalist thesis is that the time has come for the race to get rid of the intimidating gods in its own head -- grow up out of our cosmic inferiority complex (no more dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return...), bring our disguised desire into the open, and go after what we want, the only state of being we will settle for, which is divinity.

God has been born . . . we have seen him ourselves. The World is saved. Nothing else matters.

There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.

For to be human is not enough...when gods cry war amidst the thunder.

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

These palms are greater than Versailles,for no man made them.