Quotes About Spirituality

The Lingam is certainly not an obscene allusion; nor is the cross merely a sign of death. Much depends upon the maturity of the dreamer who produces such an image.

Here each of us must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving int he crowd?

Równie dobrze mo?na ja?n okreÅ›li? jako ,,Boga w nas

Jung identifies the "Anthropos" ("Primal Man" or "Original Man"), "Christ," and the "Son" with God. The Anthropos begins as part of the unconscious godhead, emerges as an independent ego, eventually forgets his unconscious origin, must be reminded of it by the godhead, and then returns to it to form a unified

Woe unto you, for you have substituted the oneness of god for the diversity which cannot be resolved into the one.

If we seek genuine psychological understanding of the human being of our own time, we must know his spiritual history absolutely. We cannot reduce him to mere biological data, since he is not by nature merely biological but is a product also of spiritual presuppositions.

Paul Klee, who may be regarded as the poet among modern painters, says: "It is the artist's mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

It's erroneous to believe that religions differ in their innermost essence. Strictly speaking, it's always one and the same religion. Every subsequent form of religion is the meaning of the antecedent.

the meaning of life is not exhaustively explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.

Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.

This is one reason why all religions employ symbolic language or images. But this conscious use of symbols is only one aspect of a psychological fact of great importance: Man also produces symbols unconsciously and spontaneously, in the form of dreams.

With these words Schiller acknowledges the equal rights of sensuousness and spirituality. He concedes to sensation the right to its own existence. But at the same time we can see in this passage the outlines of a still deeper thought: the idea of a "reciprocity" between the two instincts, a community of interest, or, in modern language, a symbiosis in which the waste products of the one would be the food supply of the other.

These moral evaluations are optical illusions, however: the life force is beyond moral judgment.

Snící se rozhodl žít nejen jako netÄ›lesná myÅ¡lenková bytost, nýbrž pÃ…â"¢ijmout a prožít i tÄ›lo a svÄ›t instinkt?, skute?nost problému života i lásky.

Esto le llevó a concluir que «con el paso de los siglos, Occidente producirá su propio yoga, y será sobre las bases establecidas por el cristianismo»51

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

CHARLES SPURGEON once preached on the foolishness of pride, calling it "a groundless thing" and "a brainless thing" as well as "the maddest thing that can exist."1 But despite the sheer folly and unreasonableness of pride, it manifests its stubborn presence in countless ways within all of us. Even the disciples of Jesus weren't immune; in fact, they were prime offenders.

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

Though our feelings come and go, Godís love for us does not.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best

But we are each created in God's image and must be allowed to seek our path to Him in our own way.

Five is the most sacred number in the firmament." She motioned.

I never much cared for religion. I don't think God does, either.