Quotes About Spirituality

Hijo mío, la Santa Madre Iglesia está a la derecha, pero Jesucristo siempre estuvo a la izquierda

Those native peoples were confounded by the mystery of the crucified man the whites worshipped, and they could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio

I stroke them, and they always like that, because old people don't have anyone who touches them, and I get them hooked on a TV series, because nobody wants to die before the final episode. Some of them find comfort in prayer, but there are lots of atheists here, and they don't pray. What's most important is not to leave them on their own.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As

A veces se preguntaba si los indios no estaban mejor antes, cuando eran dueños de California y vivían a su manera, con sus costumbres y sus dioses, pero enseguida se persignaba y pedía perdón a Dios por tamaña herejía. «¡Adónde vamos a parar si yo mismo dudo del cristianismo!», suspiraba, arrepentido.

De poco sirve el conocimiento sin sabiduría, no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio a los demás.

Creen en un solo dios, pero no es nuestro Dios, sino otro al que llaman Ngenechén.

And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware that before, death was is the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my house. I try to live mindfully and be present in the moment.

My grandmother claimed that space is filled with presences, the dead and the living all mixed together.

In her mother's last days, Lucia understood that death was not an end, was not the absence of life, but a powerful oceanic wave of clear, luminous water that was carrying her off to another dimension.

For the first time in her life, she felt her own soul as an incandescent light within her, sustaining her, an eternal light that could not be affected by the urgencies of existence

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Most people live their lives without any link with the divine and do not note the signs, coincidences, premonitions, and small daily miracles in which the supernatural is manifest.

For Isaac's protection he had a blue Turkish evil eye and a painted tin hand of Fatima hanging from the bedpost; a candle was always lit on his chest of drawers, next to Hebrew and Christian Bibles and a jar of holy water that one of the domestic staff had brought from the Shrine of Saint Jude.

La conversación es el sexo del alma.

Decía que de poco sirve el conocimiento sin sabiduría, no hay sabiduría sin espiritualidad y la verdadera espiritualidad incluye siempre el servicio a los demás.

muerte es un umbral hacia otra forma de existencia. El alma trasciende.

Like a luminous spiderweb, Popo. The threads of that web connect everything that exists. I can't explain it to you. When you die, you're going to travel like that comet, and I'll be right behind, attached to your tail." "We'll be astral dust.

La fe no me ha fallado, pero mi relación con Dios ha ido cambiando con los años. A veces, sin pensarlo, lo llamo Ngenechén, y a la Virgen del Socorro la confundo con la Santa Madre Tierra de los mapuche

It was a long night, perhaps the longest in my life. I spent it sitting next to Rosa's tomb, speaking with her, accompanying her on the first part of her journey to the Hereafter, which is when it's hardest to detach yourself from earth and you need the love of those who have remained behind, so you can leave with at least the consolation of having planted something in someone else's heart.

The road of gluttony leads straight to lust and, if traveled a little farther, to the loss of one's soul.

Dios es lo que une, aquello que mantiene el tejido de la vida, lo mismo que tú llamas amor.

That is what I am attempting in my stumbling spiritual practice: to rid myself of the negative feelings that prevent walking with assurance. I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.