Quotes About Spirituality

We remain eternally nostalgic for the innocence of childhood, the divine, unconscious Being of the animal, and the untouched cathedral-like old-growth forest. We find respite in such things. We worship them, even if we are self-proclaimed atheistic environmentalists of the most anti-human sort. The original state of Nature, conceived in this manner, is paradisal. But we are no longer one with God and Nature, and there is no simple turning back.

He who has many material things, may be described as rich, but he who knows he has enough, and is at one with the Tao,

The beneficence of the world manifests itself to those who live properly. That's better than bread. That's better than the money that will buy bread. Thus Christ, the symbolically perfect individual, overcomes the first temptation.

I act as if God exists.

I smelled the cinnamon, and I imagined myself full of white light. I think I felt something. Something more than the desire for a piece of toast—though that was there, too.

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know. You must remain awake to catch yourself in the act. You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's. And in this way, you strengthen your own spirit, so it can tolerate the burden of existence, and you rejuvenate the state.

Mi médico decía que todos tenemos pesos en el alma, y que esos pesos son difíciles de quitar, así que lo que nos toca es hacer más fuerte el alma.

Deus é gordo" - Vadinho ao voltar

Pirulito avança. Vê o inferno, o castigo de Deus, suas mãos e sua cabeça a arder uma vida que nunca acaba. Mas sacode o corpo como que jogando longe a visão, recebe o Menino que a Virgem lhe entrega, o encosta ao peito e desaparece na rua.

Não sei vadiar nem coberto de lençol quanto mais vestido com roupa. Tu tem vergonha de quê, meu bem? A gente não vai se casar, não é para isso mesmo? E mesmo que não fosse, a vadiação é coisa de Deus, foi ele quem mandou que se vadiasse. "Vão vadiar por aí, meus filhos, vão fazer neném" que ele disse e foi das coisas mais direitas que ele fez.

The image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.

Today I am getting my instructions. I am getting them from something holy.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

The soul is pained by all things it thinks upon.

But if in Love and Well-doing the infinite is approachable for certain souls, the out-of-the-world possibilities of Evil are limited.

He grew enthusiastic in thinking of the convents. Ah! to be earthed up among them, sheltered from the herd, not to know what books appear, what newspapers are printed, never to know what goes on outside one's cell, among men—to complete the beneficent silence of this cloistered life, nourishing ourselves with good actions, refreshing ourselves with plain song, saturating ourselves with the inexhaustible joys of the liturgies.

ya sabéis que el gran Platón dijo que las matemáticas tienen la finalidad de conducir al espíritu a la contemplación de las esencias inteligibles.

The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies that are diverse in form and color.

Un pueblo irreligioso morirá, porque nada en él alimenta la virtud. Las injusticias humanas disgustan de ella; es necesario que la justicia celeste la garantice

Yo soy un hombre sincero De donde crece la palma, Y antes de morirme quiero Echar mis versos del alma. Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy: Arte soy entre las artes, En los montes, monte soy.

A los blancos hizo Dios, A los mulatos San Pedro, A los negros hizo el diablo Para tizón del infierno.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

Batid ni Kapitan Tiago na maraming santo sa kalendaryo na walang ginagawa, at marahil wala ring ginagawa roon sa langit.

Lee.) "Doña Inés del alma mía". Virgen santa, ¡qué principio!