Quotes About Spirituality

I've spent the last 11 years meditating, concentrating, contemplating, applicating, educating, investigating, and instigating a higher ideal. I've been a born again Christian, a crystal holding new age visualizationist, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Christian scientist, a universalist, a bullshit artist, a seeker of truth, a charlatan, a holy roller, a shamanistic dancer, a guru, a disciple, and an enigma to my friends.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

Everything sacred, nothing sacred.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend—Path, motive, guide, original and end.

Why does Lao-tze say that to be born is to exit and to die is to enter?

El cielo no es humano, pero debe haber algo más que el cielo, la compasión y el amor, pero yo he permitido que se borrasen de mi memoria y cayesen en el olvido.

O Céu não é humano, mas talvez exista algo mais do que este Céu, a compaixão e o amor que eu há muito esquecera e apagara da memória.

El cel no és pas humà, però deu haver-hi alguna cosa més que el cel, la compassió i l'amor, però jo he permès que s'esborressin de la memòria i caiguessin en l'oblit.

When my eye lands on a real book and looks past the printed word, what it sees is disembodied thoughts flying through air, gliding on air, living off air, returning to air, because in the end everything is air, just as the host is and is not the blood of Christ.

Emptiness can feel like a dark night of the soul, as described by Saint John of the Cross,18 because it is disorienting for the egoic self, which strives hard to keep us identified with our roles, emotions, and thoughts. But once we understand the nature of emptiness, we may fall in love with it, and then become it.

clearly remembering who you are: one with all existence. Therefore, the universal consciousness within you awakens itself.

Her momentary awakening can be called a "glimpse of freedom" or a "touch of grace." Many who experience it feel distressed when it passes, but its transience can offer encouragement to keep entering the silence of meditation

It requires continual alignment with the truth we have seen while awakening. It is more enduring—and therefore more challenging—than having initial moments of awakening.