Quotes About Spirituality

El verdadero contacto entre los seres sólo se establece en la presencia muda, en la aparente no comunicación, en el intercambio misterioso y sin palabras que se asemeja a la plegaria interior.

Egyptian monks who dug their own graves in order to shed tears within them, if I were to dig mine now, all I would drop in there would be cigarette butts.

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we are separated.

Only normal that man should no longer be interested in religion but in religions, for only through them will he be in a position to understand the many versions of his spiritual collapse.

Paganism is the deepening of appearances, while saintliness is the sickness of depths.

It may very well be tht man's sole purpose is none other than to think of god. If we could either love him or ignore him we would be saved.

Meditate but one hour upon the self's nonexistence and you will feel yourself to be another man," said a priest of the Japanese Kusha sect

bütün kurtuluÅŸ öÄŸretilerinin kusuru, tamamlanmam??l???n iklimi olan ÅŸiiri ortadan kald?rmalar?d?r. ÅŸair, selamete ermeye özendiÄŸinde kendine ihanet etmiÅŸ olur: selamet ÅŸark?n?n ölümüdür...

A strange island, the ghetto, a tiny universe without roots, to the measure of its inhabitants, as remote from the life of the soil as angels or ghosts.

Silence," he would say, "brings man closer to God and makes him, on earth, like unto the angels.

A civilization which began with the cathedrals has to end with the hermeticism of schizophrenia.

The prayers of a wretch I might accept, but no one else's, not even a saint's.

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we were separated.

Invest them elsewhere; in any case, we do not serve the same gods.

Nothing procures so many crowns for the monk as discouragement.

How right it was to begin the day, as men once did, with a prayer, a call for help! Ignorant of whom to address ourselves to, we will end by groveling before the first cracked god to come along.

All thoughts are alike the moans of a worm stepped on by the angels

Maddenin d???nda, her ÅŸey müziktir. Tanr? bile sesli bir halüsinasyondan baÅŸka ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church, I keep it staying at Home— With a bobolink for a Chorister, And an Orchard, for a Dome.

Nature is a Haunted House—but Art—a House that tries to be haunted.

No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:I see Heaven's glories shine,And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.