Quotes About Spirituality

You can't undo baptism.

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was.

Even as a boy he'd known that his father's soul had touched him on the way up. He knew that meant something big and quiet and scary as hell

You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.

What others might dismiss as the vagaries of fate, my father interpreted as dancing lessons from the Divine.

In the wilderness, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD... And I have made my sacrifice accordingly.

and it replaces for me what others call religion.

They replied that it was "difficult to make contact because such people did not have time to meditate and attain the serenity to elevate their minds." An undisclosed geographical factor was also said to be involved. "She was told

That's right... I never felt a sense of superiority because I could see spirits. And I never once thought that I could make a living or help someone with it. I just longed for a life where I couldn't see them. And I finally got what I always wanted.

We stand in awe before that which can not be seen... And we respect, with every fiber, that which can not be explained.- Rukia, (And so fell the sword of fate...)

People are able to hold onto hope, since death is that which cannot be seen.

In the future whenever you fight there's one thing you have to make sure of. You mustn't die alone. Our bodies are konpaku. When we die, our bodies turn to dust and become the reishi that shapes the soul society. So what becomes of the heart? You leave your heart with your friends. That way your heart lives on in them. That's why, Rukia you mustn't die alone.

You, without sin, are like the sun You, even with sin, are like the sun

Ascension And if I go, while you're still here . . . Know that I live on, vibrating to a different measure, —behind a thin veil you cannot see through. You will not see me, so you must have faith. I wait for the time when we can soar together again, —both aware of each other. Until then, live your life to its fullest. And when you need me, Just whisper my name in your heart, . . . I will be there. © 1987 Colleen Corah Hitchcock

I try not to think of these things. I choose to fix my eyes on Jesus Christ.

I'm going to heaven! I replied. -What do you mean, you're going to heaven? -Let me pass. -And what will you do in heaven, my poor child? -I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

All dreams continue in the beyond.