Quotes About Spirituality

Literal religion is full of pitfalls.

Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. -And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.

Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Good-bye, Jon, my friend." "Good-bye, Sully. We'll meet again." And with that, Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.

Peki bundan sonra ne olacak? Nereye gidiyoruz? Cennet diye bir yer yok mu? -Hay?r Jonathan öyle bir yer yok. O ne bir yer, ne de bir zaman. Cennet, kendinde kusursuzluÄŸu bulmakt?r.

You are led through your lifetime    by the inner learning creature,       the playful spiritual being          that is your real self.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.

You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, perfect Life, here and now.

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock?

a thousand times: "You're a perfect expression of perfect Love, here and now. You will have a perfect

Pour pouvoir voler vous devez croire à l'invisible.

Ed era l'ora, sì di andare a casa. Abbracciò con un ultimo sguardo il suo cielo, i magnifici campi del cielo, dove aveva imparato molte cose. «Sono pronto» disse alfine. E il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston fece prua verso l'alto, scortato da quei due splendidi uccelli, e scomparvero insieme nella notte.

Per gyvenim? tave veda tavyje esanti, ištroškusi mokymosi, žaisminga dvasin? b?tyb?, kuri ir yra tavo asmenyb?s esm?. Nenusigr?žk nuo jokios galimos ateities prieš tai ne?sitikin?s, kad iš jos n?ra ko išmokti. Tu visuomet gali laisvai apsispr?sti. Gali persigalvoti ir pasirinkti kitoki? ateit? arba kitoki? praeit?.

The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time. •

God doesn't protect anyone. Everyone's already indestructible.

Felsefeniz, evrene bakman?n bir yoludur; günlük hayat?n?zda size rehberlik eder. Onu ders kitaplar?nda bulman?z pek olas? deÄŸildir.

Tienes idea de cuántas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lográramos la primera idea de que hay más en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? ¡Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil! Y luego cien vidas más hasta que empezamos a aprender que hay algo llamado perfección, y otras cien para comprender que la meta de la vida es encontrar esa perfección y reflejarla.

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing; the next world is the same as this one, with the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

To begin with," he said heavily, "you've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.

Du žmon?s pradeda bod?tis vienas kitu ne tod?l, kad jie b?na drauge fiziškai, - pasak? Lesli vien? vakar?, - o tod?l, kad dvasine ir intelektualine prasme jie neb?na kartu.