Quotes About Spirituality

The important thing is not to think much, but to love much.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

diadem, Cleopatra took part throughout the trip in religious

Few places favor meditation more than the desert

contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

Reverend Father, your line of thought has taken a dangerous path! Just another step, and you'll be telling me offspring can be produced not at the drawing board, by testing prototypes in a laboratory, with the highest concentration of the spirit in the metal, but in a bed, without any templates or training, at random, in the dark, and quite unintentionally . . .

Oto zÅ'o naszej produkcji, kojÄ…ce pragnienia duszy. Oto chemia, która gÅ'adzi grzechy Å›wiata.

Swami Muktananda, the head of the Siddha Yoga tradition, used to say, "God dwells in you as You.

Grof, S. 2006. The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death. Ben Lomond, CA: MAPS Publications.

The ways to find one's way to Enlightenment are many. There is prayer and fasting, and some try that to great effect, but that road is severe, particularly to people with electronic scheduling software and a lot of business lunches as part of the general requirements of their jobs, not to mention drinks after work, and pretty soon fasting, if not prayer, is out the window.

Not just the celibacy thing but because he has God's ear, a line on the mysteries. That's impressive to girls.

Cynicism, loss of spiritual values, two world wars, the communist disillusionment, psychoanalysis, have forced the 20th century writer to keep his hero uninvolved, detached, burdened with problems relating to life.... If the modern world could be summed up with a single word, it would be 'absurd.' The only truly creative response to this is the comic version of life.

The three core principles of Goddess religion are immanence, interconnection, and community.

Finally we learn the Mystery—that unless we find the Goddess within ourselves we will never find Her without. She is both internal and external; as solid as a rock, as changeable as our own internal image of Her.

Love is not only an energizing force, but an individualizing force. It dissolves separation and yet creates individuality. It is, again, the primal paradox.

In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess—we connect with Her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves.

The Sabbats are the eight points at which we connect the inner and the outer cycles: the interstices where the seasonal, the celestial, the communal, the creative, and the personal all meet.

Instead of closing our eyes to meditate, we need to open our eyes and observe. Unless our spiritual practice is grounded in a real connection to the natural world, we run the risk of simply manipulating our own internal imagery and missing the real communication taking place all around us.

The Judeo-Christian heritage has left us with the view of a universe composed of warring opposites, which are valued as either good or evil. They cannot coexist. A valuable insight of Witchcraft, shared by many earth-based religions, is that polarities are in balance, not at war.

We need images that move us beyond language, law, and custom; that hurl us beyond the boundaries of our lives to the space between worlds, where we can see clear.

War teaches us to need an enemy to conquer and overcome and to see those who are different as lesser, dangerous, inhuman [Feminist Earth-based Spirituality and Ecofeminism, Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism ].

It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him.

They loved God and their hearts were alive and there is nothing more gorgeous than that.