Quotes About Spirituality

La ciencia no es solamente compatible con la espiritualidad, sino que es una profunda fuente de espiritualidad.

Superstition [is] cowardice in the face of the Divine

So, I think the bureaucratic religions try to institutionalize your perception of the numinous instead of providing the means so you can perceive the numinous directly—like looking through a six-inch telescope. If sensing the numinous is at the heart of religion, who's more religious would you say—the people who follow the bureaucratic religions or the people who teach themselves science?

John 6:53) "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

Like it or not, we are stuck with science. We had better make the best of it. When we finally come to terms with it and fully recognize its beauty and its power, we will find, in spiritual as well as in practical matters, that we have made a bargain strongly in our favor.

and this second kind of god they called God in a very straightforward way…but by God, they meant something not very different from the sum total of the physical laws of the universe; that is, gravitation plus quantum mechanics plus grand unified field theories….equaled God. And by that all they meant were a set of exquisitely powerful physical principles that seemed to explain a great deal that was otherwise inexplicable about the universe.

A vida é apenas uma visão momentânea das maravilhas deste assombroso universo, e é triste que tantos se desgastem sonhando com fantasias espirituais.

A idéia de que Deus é um gigante barbudo de pele branca sentado no céu é ridícula. Mas se, com esse conceito, você se referir a um conjunto de leis físicas que regem o Universo, então claramente existe um Deus. Só que Ele é emocionalmente frustrante: afinal, não faz muito sentido rezar para a lei da gravidade!

human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

Alguien escribió una vez: Somos todos niños en un vasto jardín de infantes, procurando formar el nombre de Dios con letras de un rompecabezas que está equivocado.

Our most basic images of God will shape our lives, willy-nilly, including how we think about the larger environment in which we live.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

It is of the first order of importance to remember this, that the shaman is more than merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself, who is cured, and who must shamanize in order to remain cured.

I could see the light of eternity, a la William Blake, shining through every leaf. I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears

I think there's a very strong Calvinistic bias against a free lunch. The idea that you could achieve a spiritual insight without suffering, soul-searching, flagellation, and that sort of thing, is abhorrent to people because they believe that the vision of these higher dimensions should be vouchsafed to the good, and probably to them only after death. It is alarming to people to think that they could take a substance like psilocybin or DMT and have these kinds of experiences.

It's very rare that you meet someone who would prefer to shamanize, rather than to talk about it, you know. And it's the shamanizing that is important, not the talking about it.

There's an enormous mystery hovering over our existence that's only unraveled beyond the grave.

Witchcraft is, in essence, Goddess Worship.

Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

Not enough of us are "beyond Sunday" Catholics, due primarily to a lack of evangelization.