Quotes About Spirituality

This inner world is truly infinite, in no way poorer than the outer one. Man lives in two worlds. Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264

Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....

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

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams,Carl Jung

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are irresistibly attracted to him. I would feel like to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.

We're all worth it, man," River said with a beatific smile. "We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.

The moment a structure begins to promote itself, it has violated the nature of Christ and has drunk the poison of its death.

Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide to contemplative prayer. "Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." This 1912 edition was edited by Evelyn Underhill, and contains her introduction.

All temporal, partial experience of God inevitably leaves a sense of dissatisfaction behind.