Quotes About Spirituality

Svet nudi pregršt prilika. Prilike na poslu, u ljubavi, za duhovni razvoj i emocionalnu ispunjenost. Vaša misija je da ostanete stalno budni kako vas prilike ne bi mimoišle.

Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. "Yes . . . and" rather than "No . . . but." "The idiot is bound by his pride," he says. "It always has to be his way. This is also true of the person who is deceptive or doing things wrong: he always tries to justify himself. A person who is bright in regard to his spiritual life is humble. He accepts what others tell him—criticism, ideas—and he works with them.

But what is your religion?" "I don't have one." "But you believe in God?" "No." He thinks this over. "Then I'm pretty sure they can't let you in.

I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.

Pascal, Faith is God made sensible to the heart, then

Hell is not a place. It's not a noun, child. It's a verb.

It's bad when the dead talk in dreams," said Odessa.

Liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of the soul.

A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires, we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.

To be purposeful is not to be goal oriented, but to seek to reconnect to the source of one's life.

To seek pain as a form of salvation is to destroy oneself.

Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

It is important to die in holy places. That was one of the secrets of the desert. So Madox walked into a church in Somerset, a place he felt had lost its holiness, and he committed what he believed was a holy act.

There is God only in the desert, he wanted to acknowledge that now. Outside of this there was just trade and power, money and war.

Çölde yaln?zca su kutsald?r.

We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

But the young sapper was already on his back, the rifle aimed, his eye almost brushing the beards of Noah and Abraham and the variety of demons until he reached the great face and was stilled by it, the face like a spear, wise, unforgiving.

The spiritual values that are essential to human happiness are being lost or made to seem trivial. Everything is buy, earn, sell

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

Huston Smith, the scholar of religion, once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.

our everyday waking consciousness "is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

Carl Jung once wrote that it is not the young but people in middle age who need to have an "experience of the numinous" to help them negotiate the second half of their lives.

Individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states," one of the researchers was quoted as saying. They "return with a new perspective and profound acceptance.