Quotes About Spirituality

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light.

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.

I don't think people should be primarily concerned with money or material success. They should be concerned with doing that which is right and being in harmony with the way of life.

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

Do not feel that you are destined not to make that final liberation in this life. This is egotism in a reverse form. Don't be concerned one way or the other.

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

You can live in the world and have all the myriad experiences that life has to offer and yoke your awareness field to the planes of light, and eventually to nirvana itself.

Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

If you are finding that you can stop thought longer and longer, I would say your life is bringing power into your being. You are gaining things out from that field behind the house.

There are thousands of worlds, thousands of dimensional planes, billions. Life is endless. It goes on forever.

Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have holes in your being and you haven't learned to lead an efficient life.

When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.

Some people think Taoism means not doing anything, just going on with your life. That has little or nothing to do with Taoism.