Quotes About Spirituality

P?catul t?u este c? vrei s? tr?ieÅŸti moartea aici, pe p?mânt, continu? Irina ca ÅŸi cum nu l-ar fi auzit. Dar pe p?mânt omul e dator s? tr?iasc? numai viaÅ£a. Moartea lui adev?rat? o va tr?i în Cer. Dac? încearc? s? tr?iasc? moartea pe p?mânt, p?c?tuieÅŸte ÅŸi se mistuieÅŸte în dezn?dejde. Åži atunci, nici nu tr?ieÅŸte cu adev?rat, nici nu moare. E ca un fel de strigoi.

A religious symbol conveys its message even if it is no longer consciously understood in every part. For a symbol speaks to the whole human being and not only to the intelligence.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Åžtiu c? exist? un singur suflet, r?sfrânt în mii de atitudini trec?toare.

When one approaches an exotic spirituality, one understands principally what one is predestined to understand by one's own vocation, by one's own cultural orientation and that of the historical moment to which one belongs.

Unii spun c? în noaptea aceasta, exact la miezul nopÅ£ii, se deschid cerurile. (…) Dar probabil c? se deschid numai pentru cei care ÅŸtiu cum s? le priveasc?.

Dar cel care a cunoscut unirea aceea de neînÈ›eles pentru experienÈ›a È™i mintea omeneasc?, È™tie c? de la un anumit nivel viaÈ›a nu mai are sfârÈ™it, c? omul moare pentru c? e singur, e desp?rÈ›it, despicat în dou?, dar c? printr-o mare îmbr??iÈ™are se reg?seÈ™te pe sine într-o fiin?? cosmic?, autonom? È™i etern?.

Un om tr?ieÅŸte autentic... Un credincios nu are mai mult de dou?, trei experienÅ£e religioase în toat? viaÅ£a lui, ad?ugase. Restul e rutin?. Ca ÅŸi viaÅ£a noastr?: o serie nesfârÅŸit? de automatisme. Doar câteva ceasuri autentice la zece, cincisprezece ani. Åži când vrei s? ieÅŸi din rutin?, faci istorie...

E adev?rat. Acesta e p?catul nostru cel mai mare, c? nu putem tr?i în prezent. Numai sfinÅ£ii tr?iesc necontenit în prezent...

Cred c? cel mai mare p?cat contra umanit??ii este triste?ea disperat? ridicat? ca valoare suprem? a spiritualit??ii

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately connected with the discovery of the sacred.

La simple contemplación de la bóveda celeste basta para desencadenar una experiencia religiosa.

Without us, the harvest would not ripen in the fields; without our millstones the corn would not turn to flour; nor the flour to bread by stirring and baking. Let us then cooperate with nature in its mineral as well as in its agricultural labours, and treasures will be opened to all. Alchemy, we shall see, takes its place in the same spiritual category: the Alchemist takes up and perfects the work of Nature, while at the same time working to 'make' himself.

The more a consciousness is awakened, the more it transcends its own historicity...

One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Time turns into pleroma by the very fact of the incarnation of the divine Word: but this fact itself transfigures history.

El hombre religioso siente la necesidad de sumergirse periódicamente en ese tiempo sagrado e indestructible. Para él, es el tiempo sagrado lo que hace posible el otro tiempo ordinario, la duración profana en la cual se desarrolla toda existencia humana.

En resumen, la mayoría de los hombres -sin religión- comparten aún pseudo religiones y mitologías degradadas. Cosa que en nada nos asombra, desde el momento en que el hombre profano es el descendiente del homo religiosus y no puede anular su propia historia, es decir, los comportamientos de sus antepasados religiosos, que lo han constituido tal como es hoy día.

el iniciado, el que ha conocido los misterios, es el que sabe.

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately linked with the discovery of the sacred.

Experience of the sacred is inherent in man's mode of being in the world.

The sacred does not necessarily imply belief in God or gods or spirits … it is the experience of a reality and the source of an awareness of existing in the world.

Hacerse hombre significa ser religioso

For me, the sacred is always the revelation of the real, an encounter with that which saves us by giving meaning to our existence.