Quotes About Spirituality

Pick a truth that blesses your life!

God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.

A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that special place which is more than a place, more than a geophysical area.

It was then that Max, who had never before in all this time considered the matter, realized that all men, no matter what their estate, were in possession of shining immortal souls.

You are not me; I am not you; God is not you; you, most certainly, not God.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Even if you don't believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

This may be why Einstein once said; Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. The fact is that we need the insights of the mystic every bit as much as we need the insights of the scientist. Mankind is diminished when either is missing.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

name. "I may not be," Cope said. "Religion explains what man cannot explain.

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

This determined, abiding fascination is what she thinks of as her soul (an embarrassing, sentimental word, but what else to call it?); the part that might conceivably survive the death of the body.

Prosím, Bože, seÅ¡li mi nÄ›co, co bych mohl zbož?ovat.

In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He'd speak a language everyone understood.

Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind

Your arrows do not carry,' observed the Master, 'because they do not reach far enough spiritually.' Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery

Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida nace en el corazón.

Well, we start with this outrageous idea that the ground of being, existence itself, is a person, and that this person is intimately concerned with each of our lives and desires us to turn our hearts toward him. Once you accept that level of insanity—or faith, as we prefer to call it—then it makes perfect sense to try to discern what God's purpose is for your life through a disciplined process of prayer and self-examination, discernment, as we say.

God really wants to talk to us. He tried Scripture, he tries the still small voice, but we're all unbelievers now, so he mainly speaks to us through a conspiracy of accidents.

How then do we know Jesus?  We know Him in worship together, in study together, in reflection together and in reasoning together.

If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, whomever - in which the ten years since my diagnosis could be magically taken away, traded in for ten more years as the person I was before - I would, without a moment's hesitation, tell you to take a hike.

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

We can live in the pleasure of striving for the Creator. Then we will no longer be deceived as before when we wanted to reveal Him and enjoy this love. This is a lie, and this is how we kill it. Love can be enjoyed only if you go above your egoistic desires. Any relationship below this level destroys love.

La riqueza representa el momento en que uno descubre, por primera vez, un gran deseo por la espiritualidad y siente gran alegría. Ocurre así porque creemos poder alcanzar la espiritualidad utilizando nuestro ego. Estamos dispuestos a leer, a aprender, a hacer todo tipo de cosas. La escasez sobreviene cuando vemos que no podremos alcanzar la espiritualidad, a menos que reconozcamos nuestro ego y consigamos el atributo de dar.