Quotes About Spirituality

Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten . . . not for one second

I had sunk to the very bottom of the American white man's society when—soon now, in prison—I found Allah and the religion of Islam and it completely transformed my life.

Debes creerme Paula: la intemporalidad es una carga mayor que la del tiempo terrenal. No sabes qué abrumador es cargar con algo que no tiene peso.

Father Angelo makes me uncomfortable. For starters, he's way too good-looking for a priest, his dark bedroom eyes and athletic build arousing exactly the kind of impure thoughts you're supposed to go to church to get rid of.

This summer is my big chance to improve myself and I'm determined to give up sugar, caffeine, alcohol, read meat, white flour and fried foods, as well as finally learn to meditate and become the spiritually evolved person I know that I truly am inside.

The Torah of Israel is not hidden in the holy Ark in the synagogue, but goes with us in all our steps in all the places we go, enlightening us with its light and sanctifying us with its sanctity....

She resolved every day to: 1. Do something for someone else. 2. Do something for myself 3. Do something I don't want to do that needs doing. 4. Do a physical exercise 5. Do a mental exercise 6. Do an original prayer that always includes counting my blessings

Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

And give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch, but in true grace and heartfelt gratitude to the god

Always bear this in mind; and another thing too, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. And because thou hast despaired of becoming a dialectician and skilled in the knowledge of nature, do not for this reason renounce the hope of being both free and modest, and social and obedient to God.

Don't cling to possessions and other external things; cling only to the divine spark within you.

It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions, or thy sensual appetites and affections

People ask, "Have you ever seen the gods you worship? How can you be sure they exist?" Answers: i. Just look around you. ii. I've never seen my soul either. And yet I revere it. That's how I know the gods exist and why I revere them—from having felt their power, over and over.

Either we should not pray at all, or thus absolutely and freely; and not every one for himself in particular alone.

Many lumps of incense on the same altar. One crumbles now, one later, but it makes no difference

If souls can be neither created nor destroyed, does the air around us contain the souls of all who have lived before and all who are yet to be born?

And how man grasps God, with what part of himself he does so, and how that part is conditioned when he does.

my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, single, more open and visible, than that body by which it is enclosed. Thou wilt one day be sensible of their happiness, whose end is love, and their affections dead to all worldly things. Thou shalt one day be full, and in want of no external thing: not seeking pleasure from anything, either living or insensible

A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul;

No hay nada más desventurado que quien recorre todo en derredor, explora »lo que está debajo de la tierra«, dice[193], e investiga en las almas de los que están cerca mediante el uso de indicios[194], sin darse cuenta de que basta estar sólo ante el espíritu divino que está dentro de uno mismo y ser su servidor de verdad. Este

the Imitation of Christ.

thou wilt cease to be held by pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which is as much inferior as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and deity; the other is earth and corruption.

It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions, or thy sensual appetites and affections. What is now the object of my mind, is it fear, or suspicion, or lust, or any such thing? To do nothing rashly without some certain end; let that be thy first care.