Quotes About Spirituality

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

When I was a little kid going to Methodist church, I actually envisioned one day that I would become a minister but I never pursed that.

My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

I am never bored in my ministry because I continually see the impact of God in people's lives.

I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.

Q. What will happen to our consciousness after we die? A. What happens to consciousness when we're still alive? If you can answer that question, the other question will be answered as well.

la práctica espiritual consiste más en reflexionar sobre las preguntas que en hallar respuestas.

Reliance on the Dharma Rather than Reliance on the Person Who Teaches It.

Pídele que trate de mantener vivo ese espíritu todo el día

We just sit, smile, and breathe, because we know that arguing about the existence of God or nirv??a is a waste of time.

One cannot become a practitioner of Zen just by imitating the way of eating, sitting, or dressing of Chinese or Japanese practitioners. Zen is life, Zen does not imitate. If Zen is to fully take root in the West, it must acquire a Western form, different from Oriental Zen.

if we are free of the past, free of the future, we can touch the kingdom of God, the Pure Land of the Buddha, with every step.

Humans can be hateful, mean, and violent, but we also have the ability, with spiritual practice, to become compassionate and protective toward not only our own species but other species too—the ability to be awakened beings who can protect our planet and preserve her beauty. Awakening is our hope. And awakening is possible.

To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting just one kind of fruit.

Mara personifies the inner hindrances to the practice, the opposite of the Buddha nature in each person.

We drink and eat all the time, but we usually ingest only our ideas, projects, worries, and anxiety. We do not really eat our bread or drink our beverage. If we allow ourselves to touch our bread deeply, we become reborn, because our bread is life itself. Eating it deeply, we touch the sun, the clouds, the earth, and everything in the cosmos. We touch life, and we touch the Kingdom of God.

Happiness depends first of all on having the deep desire for happiness, and then on having a spiritual path to follow.

Although not yet here, the future is already producing ghosts which haunt us. In fact, these ghosts are not produced by the future or the past. It is our consciousness which creates them. The past and the future are creations of our consciousness.