Quotes About Spirituality

If, as Max Weber contended, science, modernity and rationalism have disenchanted the world and swept it clean of gods, spirits and magic (or, at least, problematised believing in them), then psychedelics offer a potential way out of the ensuing existential impasse. -Andy Letcher

There is that sense that we have to all come together, the challenges have become so great for the human species that it's going to take all of us to find our way out. One of the ways to achieve this goal, of course, is to expand the freedom of religions so that those people who use psychedelics within their religious practise are able to do so. -Rick Doblin

I will see you in another life when we are both cats.

They need to believe in something closer than God, because God often feels too distant." He was right: the saints offer us a ladder to reach Him more easily. "And they bring people together," I contributed. He nodded. "They do. Or at least belief in them does." "One and the same," I said, sounding much more certain than I felt.

The pain will be born from that look cast inside yourself, And this pain will make you go beyond the veil. (Mathnawi II, 2517)

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

He has dark skin," she said to Rux, jumping right to her point, "because God is an astounding artist, and like you, he loves to paint with many different colors.

Because I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

When has faith ever been about feelings?

For the first time, Lex caught a glimmer of the hand of God in all the crazy turns her life had taken lately. She hadn't been talking to God much, but He'd still been orchestrating things. It gave her a weird feeling- both comforted at being taken care of, but also antsy that she hadn't been as independent and in control as she thought she was.

The more I study religion," he wrote, "the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anyone but himself.

Choosing to believe that something larger than you is at work in, through, and for you is the starting point for all the good things life has to offer. Trust this larger life to support and sustain you. Trust a wisdom greater than your limited knowledge to be provider and guide in all situations, for the highest good of all.

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people and people change things.

The biblical revelation proclaims from start to finish that the old self is a lost cause, and that man faces the future with hope only as a new creature, as a reborn self, spiritually enlivened to the supernatural world;

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing in the Tower that has not grown into its own form over the decades, nothing with which I am not linked. Here everything has its history, and mine; here is space for the spaceless kingdom of the world's and the psyche's hinterland.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has really been healed who did not regain his religious outlook.

I don't need to believe. I know (God exists).

Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone.

Tanr? sadece nur deÄŸil, bir aÄŸaç yeÅŸerdiÄŸinde açan son çiçektir. Tüm yarat?lanlar?n sonunda varaca?? kurtuluÅŸ noktas? deÄŸildir yaln?zca ya da sadece tüm varl???n eksiksiz ve kusursuz hal? deÄŸildir. Tanr? ayn? zamanda tüm temel belirsizliklerin en çapra??k ve gizli sebepleridir. OlaÄŸanüstü paradokslar? içine alan derin ve psikolojik bir hakikattir.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.