Quotes About Spirituality

Those who find great difficulties in practicing Zen will find more meaning in it.

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

are aware of this movement. You should not be absent-minded. But to be aware of the movement does not mean to be aware of your small self, but rather of your universal nature

The enlightened person is some perfect, desirable character, for himself and for others.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Restlessness is God's way of urging us!!!!

He's a pagan! I'm an artist! We're naturally sympathetic!

Into the woods my Master went,Clean forspent, forspent.Into the woods my Master came,Forspent with love and shame.

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

54. At Daybreak I LISTEN for him through the rain, And in the dusk of starless hours I know that he will come again; Loth was he ever to forsake me: He comes with glimmering of flowers 5 And stir of music to awake me. Spirit of purity, he stands As once he lived in charm and grace: I may not hold him with my hands, Nor bid him stay to heal my sorrow; 10 Only his fair, unshadowed face Abides with me until to-morrow.

At bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.

writing poetry is like prayer, and prayer isn't something you have to share with other people.

For I've realized more and more with each year I've lived: There is no worthier work for the person who has been geared with the ability to see even a small part of God's mercy than to serve Him and to keep vigil and to pray for those people whose sight is still clouded by the shadow of worldly matters.

She walked as if through a forest. The pillars were furrowed like ancient trees, and into the woods the light seeped, colorful and as clear as song, through the stained-glass windows. High overhead animals and people frolicked in the stone foliage, and angels played their instruments. At an even higher, more dizzying height, the vaults of the ceiling arched upward, lifting the church toward God ... The song cut through her like a blinding light. Now she saw how deep in the dust she lay.

Maybe all the trees were God.--A Parchment of Leaves

I wondered if the trees were God. They were like God in many respects: they stood silent, and most people only noticed them when the need arose.

Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy.

Thinking of love in terms of romance is like thinking of God in terms of a priest.

You can burn down my churches. But I shall be free.

the kind of music that God must hearing, no matter how busy or distracted, because it comes out of hundreds of square Miles of nothingness, out of the emptiness of the hills and the silence of the moors ...

God is not in his office.