Quotes About Spirituality

Wat een mens zijn spieren tekort heeft laten komen, kan later nog worden ingehaald; maar opstijgen naar het geestelijke, de innerlijke kracht van de ziel, kan alleen in die beslissende vormende jaren worden geoefend, en alleen wie vroeg heeft geleerd zijn ziel te vergroten, kan later de hele wereld in zich opnemen.

Non vi è dubbio che una figura eroica, per il fatto solo della sua esistenza, domina per decenni e per secoli la vita spirituale. Nella vita dei fatti e della realtà, nella sfera della politica, ben di rado sono le figure eccezionali, gli uomini dalle idee pure, a decidere: decide invece la specie molto più meschina, ma più abile, degli uomini di sfondo.

God had told her to take fees for instruction and healing. At first she had not grasped the reason, but then it had become plain to her. By making material sacrifices, the patient strengthens his own faith. The more he has to pay, the more earnestly does he desire to be cured.

Yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey hiçlik kadar insan ruhuna bask? yapamaz.

Åžeytani demekle kastettiÄŸim ÅŸey, her insan?n temelinde ve özünde yatan o doÄŸuÅŸtan gelen huzursuzluktur ve bu huzursuzluk onu kendinden ç?kar?r, onu kendinden al?p sonsuza, as?l olana sürükler, sanki doÄŸa her bir ruhta, o ilk kaosun d??a vurulmam??, tedirgin bir parças?n? b?rakm??t?r; bu parça ise gerilim ve tutku yoluyla o insanüstü, alg? ötesi temeline geri dönmek ister.

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?lar -sadece bizi en mutlak anlamdaki hiçliÄŸin içerisine yerleÅŸtirdiler, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhu üzerinde hiçlik kadar a??r bir bask? uygulayamaz.

Y esta búsqueda y este esfuerzo por la pureza de espíritu, por la salvaguarda de la libertad en una época de servilismo generalizado a ideologías y facciones, lo convierte hoy en nuestro hermano y contemporáneo.

NeboÃ…Â¥ on ?etl, jako se jiní modlí, jako hrá?i hrají a opilí tupÄ› zírají do prázdna, ?etl tak dojemnÄ› pohroužen, že vÅ¡echno ?tení ostatních lidí mi od té doby vždycky pÃ…â"¢ipadalo profánní.

Non si dovrebbe parlare di Dio. Non conosciamo la sua lingua. Possiamo soltanto ascoltare. Come l'incanto di una musica lontana, nel cuore della notte

There pass the trav'lling dreams, and these My soul adores

According to Gnostic teaching, the world is a mixture of the seeds of light and of darkness. Though it is impossible to distinguish between them now, in the fullness of time they will separate naturally, as ordained.

Gnosticism has always been difficult to define, largely because it is a system of thought based upon and frequently amended by experiences of nonordinary states of consciousness, and thus it is resistant to theological rigidity.

implications of gnosis: What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are hastening of what we are being freed of what birth really is of what rebirth really is. (Excerpta de Theodoto)

To sum up, salvation to the Gnostic means not reconciliation with an angry God by way of the death of his son, but rather liberation from the stupor induced by earthly existence and an awakening by way of gnosis.

The practitioner empowers his food and drink into nectar with the three syllables OM AH HUM , and he eats it as if it were an offering to the deity whom he vividly visualizes himself to be; he empowers his clothing and seat also into "ornaments of self-luminous knowledge" with the three syllables, and thus he enjoys them.

These four practices—concentration, receptive awareness, cultivation, and contemplation—constitute the major uses of awareness throughout the world's great meditative traditions.

Y, por desgracia, sus gafas cayeron al suelo. El mágico telescopio que le permitía contemplar el mundo del espíritu se rompió así en mil pedazos.

Life does not end when we physically do.

Just because your intuition can't fit it into one of the five senses, hardly means it doesn't exist.

We are made up of energy in all stages of life and death. We just change from a liquid to a solid and then to a gas.

life's burdens may only be overcome by a summoning of inner resources: by a dependence not upon others, but upon the qualities of spirit and mind.

Because some people believe in storing prayers in the Bank of God, then taking a withdrawal in one lump sum.

Burn a little incense, sacrifice a chicken or two, smoke a cigar, then shake your maracas and dance.

it is pure potential. Every ball or skein of yarn holds something inside it, and the great mystery of what that might be can be almost spiritual