Quotes About Spirituality

I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but I certainly don't keep all the customs and rules I once did.

I am a big gospel guy myself and I listen to a lot to gospel music. It inspires me. It encourages me. It uplifts me.

India always inspires me.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

The institution of religion is important.

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.

You can be a great father if you are willing to let God use you as an instrument.

What greater insult can you give God than to take your own life?

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.

We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.

I was raised in an intensely religious household and I think the influence shows through my music.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

I want to interact with the divine energy everyday.

I admire those that keep Shabbat every week and do not allow anything to interfere with it. It is such a beautiful way to stay connected to friends and family and force yourself to slow down.

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.