Quotes About Spirituality

Even as the awareness was speaking itself to her mind it was gone, beyond her grasp, beyond recall. A little flash of heaven, which was a something or a state of being beyond either place or time or the ability to be expressed in words and was therefore to be sensed fleetingly but never to be grasped.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

The truly inspired priest is the man or woman with the big brain.

There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?

razgovaram s jednim starijim muškarcem koji mi objašnjava kako njegova žena, nije doista mrtva, jer zadovoljstva iz vremena koje su proveli zajedno i dalje žive u njemu.

Saints and mystics spend their lives trying to escape the prison of the flesh;

but since every created being is ultimately an emanation of God, partaking of His Essence in a measure diminishing with distance, the soul will always strive upward, to its source.

The chain, thus unified, now reached from God's throne down to the meanest worm.

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

The child is much nearer the vision of the self. We must become as little children before we can enter into the realm of truth. This is why we are required to put aside the sophistication of the learned. The need for being born again is insisted on. It is said that the wisdom of babes is greater than that of scholars. Sri

I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

Since long ago all peoples have recognized that the world, apart from its physical meaning, also has a moral one. Yet everywhere the matter has only come to a vague consciousness, which, as it sought expression, clothed itself in all sorts of images and myths. There are religions.

Behind the cross stands the devil.

Religions are like glow-worms: they need darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion.

All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Cada um será tanto mais sociável quanto mais pobre for de espírito, e, em geral, mais vulgar (o que torna o homem saudável é justamente a sua pobreza interior). Pois, no mundo, não se tem muito além da escolha entre solidão e a vulgaridade.

Pues cuanto más tiene uno en sí mismo, menos necesita del exterior y menos le importan los demás. Por eso la eminencia del espíritu conduce a la insociabilidad.

The eternal being, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

The prayer "Lead me not into temptation" means: "Let me not see who I am.

It is this which makes suicide easier: for the physical pain associated with it loses all significance in the eyes of one afflicted by excessive spiritual suffering.

What I have here described with feeble tongue and only in terms, is no philosophical fable, invented by myself, and only of today; no, it was the enviable life of so many saints and beautiful souls among Christians, and still more among Hindus and Buddhists and also among the believers of other religions.