Quotes About Spirituality

Well madam, I will tell you one thing. You must listen. You are back in India for a good shaking. Here you will dance with death and be reborn. You will be a chameleon of karma and there are many guides to show you the way. You will search India's land of gods and find faith

I've crashed into another bad wall of karma and in the process lost my lightness of being.

India is the land of the profound and the profane; a place where spirituality and sanctimoniousness sit miles apart. I

I must find peace in the only place possible in India. Within.

God is not a judgemental giant sitting up in heaven, it's a force within us all - we are light bulbs in the electrical system of the universe.

I figure that if I can find peace in death, then perhaps I can find peace and a sense of grace in life.

I am worried self analysis will lead to spiritual paralysis

After nearly two years of traveling India's spiritual supermarket I'm still a self-occupied, selfish, pathetic, pessimistic bitch who's dropped any faith at first sign that things aren't going well.

My Sikh-inspired spiritual strength is melting away and my brain is too fried to meditate.

Judaism or Islam or Sikhism. I can be a believer in something bigger than what I can touch. I can make a leap of faith to a higher power in a way that's appropriate to my culture but not be imprisoned by it.  

I realize I don't have to be a Christian who follows the church, or a Buddhist nun in robes, or a convert to Judaism

Religion appears in this book as it does in my other work on religion, media, and consumption—not as a solid, circumscribed, institutional, organized entity but more as (to borrow a phrase from author Anne Lamott) "the water at the edge of things.

I leaned toward him and whispered, "I'm drowning. Save me." But when I tried to grasp his shoulder my hand passed through him. "I'm over here," he said. I said, "No wonder I can't touch you. You're dead too." Or perhaps I didn't say it.

I cross myself and close my eyes. Where we go next, we go together.

I think maybe heaven is a sea of untranslatable jokes. Only everyone is laughing.

A girl, a woman who is two-thirds done, is nearer to God. A young woman on the verge of knowing herself is the most attractive thing on this earth to a man for this very reason.

You say a prayer, Virginia. A prayer cleans the air the way water cleans the dirt.

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.

And what will your sister do if her husband should die, and she should take another? Who will she fly to then, when she has crossed the spheres? For she will fly to someone, we will all fly to someone, we will all return to that piece of shining matter from which our souls were torn with another, two halves of the same.

To find Me and hear My voice, you must seek Me above all else. Anything that you desire more than Me becomes an idol.

Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life. Instead, ask My Spirit to guide you moment by moment.

I am Light, in whom there is no darkness at all.

The world's way of pursuing riches is grasping and hoarding. You attain My riches by letting go and giving.

Your deepest, most constant need is for My Peace. I have planted Peace in the garden of your heart,