Quotes About Spirituality

Only a soul that has surrendered utterly gives up on notions of redemption.

Her worship was founded on denial, and in the absence of a true relationship with her goddess, she – like all those who had come before her – was free to invent every detail of that mock relationship.

People don't change to suit their god; they change their god to suit them.

Simply said, much that is meaningful and worthwhile in life has little to do with logic, reason, or analysis.

tonsure—and wearing a dark blue

God's Blessing are more numerous than those growing trees. /Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, Defeat of the Infidels/

Zen is perhaps best known not so much for the negation of speech, which would represent an extreme view, but for inventing a creative new style of expression that uses language in unusual and ingenious fashions to surpass a reliance on everyday words and letters.

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

God always starts with renewing the mind before he revives the emotions and redirects the will.

The aim of a good teacher, [is] to turn away the eyes of men from the world, that they may look up to heaven.

You will never have a knowledge of sin unless you have a true conception of the holiness of God.

There is not one drop of real joy to be experienced apart from him. All joy is in the Lord.

finding God brings meaning into every moment—I

joy is evidence of God.

Jesus Christ did not come to earth to start a new religion. In fact, He leveled His harshest criticisms at the religious leaders of His day. He accused them of not knowing God and said they had used religion to bind people to a life of misery, frustration, and failure. He claimed they were blind and had blinded the "spiritual eyes" of their followers (see Matthew 15:13-14; 23:13-24).

I cannot imagine God is up there following some rulebook (or cookbook) that maps out all that must or should happen.

To me, wherever [God] are, they are. I just know them through encounters. Claiming that I have to know about them before I know them is like saying I have to be able to know what your liver is like to genuinely know you.

Freedom, if it emerges like magic from consciousness (like the conjuring of consciousness itself!) seems best recognized in the choices made for love.

This is why reading the scriptures as a scientific text can do violence to their purpose. They are designed to connect us subjectively, consciously, and spiritually to richer truths and meaning.

There is a despair that goes deeper than existence; it runs to the marrow of consciousness, to the seat of the soul.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

What could split its soul into a thousand pieces? A million? And with it, the answer: God. God could divide Himself infinitesimally. God could fracture his soul into one and a half billion pieces and place a little of it in each and every man and woman walking the earth. And then, as understanding settled, he beheld

The sixth chakra, also called the Ajna chakra, is located between the eyebrows.

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.