Quotes About Spirituality

He came to believe in the preexistence of souls. In this view, not only did Christ preexist his appearance on earth as a human, so did everyone else.

Back, then, to my original question: Is this the God of the New Testament?

Stoics believed that Logos—reason—was a divine element that infused all of existence

Moreover, as the mind is to the body, so the Logos is to the world.

The powers of evil were far more powerful than we mortals, and even though people could resist them, they could not overcome them.

Give Gnostic scholars a new Gnostic text filled with aeons and cosmic mysteries and they think they're in hog heaven.

The soul is made up of that kind of material. It may be rarified "stuff" but it is still stuff.

I could no longer reconcile my faith in God with the state of the world that I saw all around me.

Proceed from earth! Proceed to heaven! Proceed!" Apollonius was being told, in other words, to ascend to the realm of the gods.

humans are made up of two competing entities, the mortal body and the immortal soul

How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.

Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it.

Aye. Would'ee speak a word of prayer first, Roland? To whatever God thee holds?" "I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.

Was it God that made magic, or was it magic that made God?

her soul,' said Taban. He looked over at the next

the third eye... our sacred Cyclops... our good eye, the only one that can see beyond our conditioned ways of seeing. It is, of course, a knowing eye, not a seeing one. It is the eye through which we look within to experience the universe unfolding. It is the single eye that concentrates duality into the One: the eye of insight, the locus of the point of remembrance on the ascent to death, as well as the point of forgetfulness on the descent into birth.

As Nisargadatta said, 'The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it." Often

For all of us there is an approach to the seemingly unapproachable. This is the life-affirming work of learning to stay present even under difficult circumstances, to embrace mental, physical, and spiritual pain using techniques suitable for each particular level of discomfort.

We see not just that which is uninjured, but that within us which is uninjurable.

Preparing for death is one of the most profoundly healing acts of a lifetime. For

To become Kuan Yin is to recognize the extreme toil and commitment that brings fruition. Her accomplishment not bestowed on her by some celestial prize committee, Zeus, or the Holy Ghost, but by the hard-earned forgoing of all earthly pleasure, to complete what Buddha called "the work to be done.

What we want and need in our bitter, rebellious times is God, but unwilling to turn fully to him, we reach for idols and forfeit his intended grace.

There is no such thing as perfection on earth and certainly not in a church.