Quotes About Spirituality

If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb.

So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his works are as naught: When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.

There the whole sky is filled with sound, and there that music is made without fingers and without strings; There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease. Kabir says: "If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life, you will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss.

Si tus ligaduras no son quebrantadas mientras vives ¿Qué esperanza de liberación puedes tener en la muerte?

There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded, Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas, Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky, Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina— There is my Lord self-revealed: and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps.

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Mohammed's son pores over words, and points out this and that, but if his chest is not soaked dark with love, then what? The Yogi comes along in his famous orange, but if inside he is colorless, then what?

The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Jumna.

I offer myself to an image: the great being beyond boundaries and beyond beyond

Neden ç?kars?n minareye? Tanr? sa??r m? ki? Medet umduÄŸunu gönlünde arasana, GerçeÄŸi evinde (kendinde) aramazs?n da, Ormandan ormana gezer durursun. Hakikat sendedir. Sende! Nereye gidersen git, ruhunu bulamad?ktan sonra, Senin için dünyan?n bir gerçekliÄŸi olamaz elbette.

Pandit, you've got it wrong. There's no creator or creation there, no gross or fine, no wind or fire, no sun, moon, earth or water, no radiant form, no time there, no word, no flesh, no faith, no cause and effect, nor any thought of the Veda. No Hari or Brahma, no Shiva or Shakti, no pilgrimage and no rituals. No mother, father or guru there. Is it two or one? Kabir says, if you understand now, you're guru, I'm disciple.

So high is my Lord's palace, my heart trembles to mount its stairs: yet I must not be shy, if I would enjoy His love.

When I gave up the tying of ribbons, still I tied my garment about me: When I gave up tying my garment, still I covered my body in its folds. So when I give up passion, I see that anger remains; And when I renounce anger, greed is still with me still; And when greed is vanquished, pride and vainglory remain; When the mind is detached and casts Maya away,still it clings to the latter. Kabir says, 'Listen to me, dear Sadhu! the true path is rarely found.

Piš?al Neskon?nega neprenehoma igra, njen zvok je ?ista ljubezen. Ko se ljubezen osvobodi spon, seže po resnici. Kako širno se razlega ta zven! Nima konca in ni? mu ne stoji napoti. Podoba te melodije sije kakor milijone sonc. To brenkalo je brez primere- brenkalo, ki oddaja note resnice.

He who is within is without: I see Him and none else.

How could the love between Thee and me sever? As the leaf of the lotus abides on the water: so thou art my Lord, and I am Thy servant. As the night-bird Chakor gazes all night at the moon: so Thou art my Lord and I am Thy servant. From the beginning until the ending of time, there is love between Thee and me; and how shall such love be extinguished? Kabir says: "As the river enters into the ocean, so my heart touches Thee.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days…

O How may I ever express that secret word? O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that? If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed: If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood. He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one; The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools. He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: There are no words to tell that which He is.

The world is dying, but knows none how to Die: But, whosoever knows how to Die, dies not again.

O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides. If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?

Like Paul the tent-maker, Boehme the cobbler, Bunyan the tinker, Tersteegen the ribbon-maker, he knew how to combine vision and industry; the work of his hands helped rather than hindered the impassioned meditation of his heart.

As spiritual seekers, we know that the objective knowledge we require cannot be constructed by human intellect alone. Intellect can perform many useful functions; it can divide, critique, and negate, but intellect is not the source of inspired knowledge about the purpose of life. Intellectual conjecture too often leads only to a labyrinth of opinion. Rather it is the heart that is the seat of true knowing. (p. 53)

Some people are granted the experience of very high states of consciousness, and yet if these states are not accompanied by a development of character through a prior education that involves every department of human experience, you might have an enlightened being whom you would not trust even to be a baby-sitter.

The education of the Soul is the Great Work.

One danger is that the person will strive very hard in spiritual disciplines as a way of avoiding or burying deep pain. Eventually, however, he or she will realize that the spiritual path must bring everything to light.