Quotes About Spirituality

Yet even for al-Ghazzali the law is the indispensable beginning; and when completely internalized, the law also becomes an integral part of the end toward which the spiritual quest is directed. Ghazzali writes: "Know that the beginning of guidance is outward piety and the end of guidance is inward piety.

Vosotras que me creéis, porque sabéis sentir y presentir, saludad al poeta a su paso, como las vírgenes Sulamitas a David el cantor, y no temáis engañaros, que él lleva consigo las tres palabras de pase para el templo de la inmortalidad: Eros -Lumen -Numen

La torre de marfil tentó mi anhelo; quise encerrarme dentro de mí mismo, y tuve hambre de espacio y sed de cielo desde las sombras de mi propio abismo.

Así tú para mí. En medio de los martirios de la vida, me refrescas y alientas con el aire de tus alas, porque si partiste en tu forma humana al viaje sin retorno, siento la venida de tu sér inmortal, cuando las fuerzas me faltan o cuando el dolor tiende hacia mí el negro arco.

era incompreensível o fato de que nas orações da noite que sua mãe orava com ele apenas os seres humanos fossem mencionados.

Jesus dizia aos perturbados pelas ansiedades da vida que eles deviam olhar para as flores a fim de aprender delas tranquilidade.

Mas a alma não sabe o que é isso, o não existir. Aquilo que é sentido existe. A alma é um lugar assombrado onde moram as mais estranhas criaturas que, sem existirem, existem.

Não há razões para a alegria. Ela é uma fonte da eternidade que emerge no tempo.

Mas o fato é que não é possível acumular coisa alguma. O acumular é uma ilusão. Por isso Deus chamou o rico de insensato.

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

Today, we have knowledge of many, many things and the relations among human beings have multiplied ad infinitum. But we live in cities that are like deafening factories in awful Babels, with nothing to remind us of our inner world. Our communion with this inner world is not through contemplation but through books. We have passed from intuition into intellectualism.

It would be an error to wish to spread Christianity from a center in Asia, where other peoples are still settled, and Buddhism would be equally false for the European population. No religious view is right if it is not suited to the innermost needs of the time, and such a view will never be able to give a cultural impulse.

And that is what Ultima tried to teach me, that the tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart.

We don't need the gospels, we need the fiery men who wrote them!

The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.

If I were damned of body and soul,I know whose prayers would make me whole,Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Today, how do we intend to hear the heartbeat of God? What will we do to make it possible for us to hear God's comforting, peacegiving, and guiding voice? Rueben P. Job

what about the material stuff that keeps us fed and housed? And what about our attention and our priorities? As we pray into our lifestyle, we encounter the issue of materialism. What is it that holds our attention—God or stuff? —Daniel Wolpert, Creating a Life with God

One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.

You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad.

and as she stood on the Ashford platform waiting for the small train to come in, she seemed already separated from the people around her. Tomorrow I shall not be among you anymore; not of you but mysteriously still with you, thought Philippa. As Lady Abbess of Brede had said, "People think we renounce the world. We don't. We renounce its ways but we are still very much in it and it is very much in us.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!