Quotes About Spirituality

Ein Gott ist der Mensch, wenn er träumt, ein Bettler, wenn er nachdenkt.

I grew up in the arms of the gods.

For the mindful god does detest untimely growth.

Voll Verdienst, doch dichterisch, wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde.

Near andHard to grasp, the god.Yet where danger lies,Grows that which saves.

For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Man has been placed on that summit where he contains within him the source of self-impulsion toward good and evil in equal measure; the nexus of the principles within him is not a bond of necessity but of freedom. He stands at the dividing line; whatever he chooses will be his act, but he cannot remain in indecision because God must necessarily reveal himself and because nothing at all in creation can remain ambiguous.

I lie on the bosom of the infinite world. At this moment I am its soul, for I feel all its powers and its infinite life as my own.

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

Friends may tell us, "Read your Bible" or "Pray about it." Some may suggest we talk with our minister. No matter how many outside sources we seek, there will be no relief for us until we, by ourselves, in our own minds and hearts, acknowledge our powerlessness. Then, and only then, will we begin to see that Step One is the beginning of a way out.

Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

Beauty attached to God is sacrament, cut off from God it becomes an idol.

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

The exoteric Islam doesn't interest me more than any other religion. But the mysticism interests me. It's like Hinduism. [Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennialist Philosophy DVD]

Ceux qui estiment que le fait de voir le mal est preuve de mauvaiseté (« le bon ne voit partout que du bien », etc.), sont les premiers à voir du mal dès qu'il s'agit d'orthodoxie, de dogmes, de culte, d'institutions sacerdotales ; en pratique c'est surtout le mal qui bénéficie de leur « amour universel ».

Un animal noble ou une belle fleur sont « intellectuellement » supérieurs à un homme vil. Dieu se révèle à la plante sous la forme de la lumière solaire. La plante se tourne irrésistiblement vers la lumière; elle ne saurait être athée ou impie.

Selon une belle expression du Sheikh Ahmed Ben Allioua, « l'invocation de Dieu est comme le va-et-vient qui affirme la communication de plus en plus complète jusqu'à l'identité entre les lueurs de la conscience et les éblouissantes fulgurations de l'Infini ».

If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look.

You can master tantric yogic poly-orgasmic Wonder Sex but you're still gonna die alone.

The only way I know of to get in touch with what God wants is to be very, very, very quiet.