Quotes About Spirituality

When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.

What to my (spiritually impoverished) mind seemed to constitute a good case for the disenchantment of the world becomes in the minds of the more psychedelically experienced irrefutable proof of its fundamental enchantment. Flesh of the gods, indeed.

Many reports are given of deep mystical experiences," he wrote, "but their chief characteristic is the wonder at one's own profundity.

it tells me that consciousness is primary to the physical universe.

If you hadn't done what you did," he told Weil, "I would never have become Ram Dass.

ordained Zen monk

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

Could it be that the doctors were mistaking transcendence for insanity?

Hoping to escape those associations and underscore the spiritual dimensions of these drugs, some researchers have proposed they instead be called "entheogens"—from the Greek for "the divine within.

There is a lot more religion in science than you might expect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson crossing a wintry New England commons in "Nature": Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

what you've got to do is learn to reach inside yourself for that holy oil that God gave all of us when we were created. You're going to find that you have a greater inner strength, a greater inner fire, a greater ability to go on than you thought, if only you would stop, not listen to anybody else, and look within yourself. That's the meaning of the Festival of Lights. That's the meaning of Hanukkah. WHAT

But from thence ye will seek the LORD thy God; and thou shalt find Him, if thou search after Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. —Deuteronomy 4:29

No, my friends, the fact of the matter was stated to me by a hobo I met many years ago in the streets of San Francisco. As we spoke, and I looked into his startlingly blue eyes with a shock of white hair, I asked him (he told me his name was Moses), "Moses, do you believe in God?" He looked at me in a puzzled manner and replied, "Who do you think created me?" That solved it for me. I have met many believing people who don't need proof.

He shuddered. He remembered that day in church when he prayed from the soul and listened and knew in that moment that there was no one there

Accepting the reality of our broken, flawed lives is the beginning of spirituality not because the spiritual life will remove our flaws but because we let go of seeking perfection and, instead, seek God, the one who is present in the tangledness of our lives.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

She talks about being a Christian as if it's a gym membership you can sign up for.

Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.

The holy book he'd spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very good at offering encouragement or hope to those who weren't religious.

In the eyes of God, all men and women are naked. Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.

It's higher consciousness that causes all our griefs and tortures, don't you think?

But there were some questions that one must not ask of God. There were some uncertainties one must face alone.