Quotes About Spirituality

Manly he had been, yet womanly too, as though Brigit, the order's Patroness, had given him something of Herself through the music he played.

True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.

and art instead of God, she often complained that she'd

We love what we love in spite of ourselves, toward something larger and more generous than the velvet prison of self.

Our survival as spiritual beings depends upon our ability to open our wild hearts in love and resonance with all of nature.

When I was in seminary," Father Edward had told other guests around the table when he was purchasing his books, "my spiritual director told me not to read theology. 'Read novels,' he said, and I have.

Theology is prose, but liturgy is poetry.

Matsu once told me the bridge represented the samurai's difficult path from this world to the afterlife. When you reach the top of the bridge, you can see your way to paradise. I feel as if the past few days have given me a glimpse of that. To simply live a life without fear has been a true paradise.

The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Keeping the Gods first doesn't mean that you withdraw from life, rather it informs every aspect of the way you engage with living.

it's a structured way of engaging with the sacred. It's a container for such engagement to happen. It's a protocol by which we can maintain right relationship in our direct engagements with the sacred.

Durkheim be damned, those of us who actually honor the Gods believe that there is more to religion than social mummery.

A person living near the Indian Ocean realizes the God in the infinity of the deep, blue ocean; where as a person living in the lap of the Himalayas, the Mt. Everest, realizes the God in the magnificence of the white mountains. Only political eyes divide these two people in two different faiths, but the truth is that both of them are trusting in two different creations of the same God.

Nobody has ever seen the God. God can be seen and realized in good works. Blindly following and marketing some brand in the name of God is just a business!

What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being.

If spiritual practices serve the purpose of stopping the mind, they are strong allies. But if they deepen the belief that you are someone in particular who practices something in particular in order to get something that you do not believe is already here, then they are an obstruction.

I have found that grace leaves its mark everywhere, with no apparent concern for karma, religious practice, accomplishment, or intellectual understanding.

he was as if a "reborn" human being, a "fundamentalist" as a human being.

Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.

If God came to India, he'd have to come as bread. If God came to Willoughby union he'd have to came as what?

Married to a soul and a mind, the body provides us with carnal pleasures and serves to reflect our overall spiritual and mental condition like a polished mirror.... To the extent that we can discover our own, unique balance, we are whole... and once whole, we can truly dance like the free spirits we are. Qigong (Chi Kung) calls us to the dance floor of life.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

I'm sweetness an' motherfuckin' light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit' love.