Quotes About Spirituality

the event of the 'golden calf ' stands for love of this-worldly things as objects of worship (v. 51). This event happened soon after the great blessing of Bani Israel's deliverance from the Pharaoh. The Book and the covenant had yet to come. This love, when it competes with and overwhelms the love for Allah, is the root cause of decadence.

The Quran explains: Whosoever holds on to Allah, he has already been guided onto a Straight Way. [Al Imran 3: 101.] CHARACTERISTICS

once you come to the Qur'?n as the first believers did, it may reveal to you as it did to them, make partners of you as it did of them. And only then, instead of being a mere revered book, a sacred fossil, or a

It was again to the Prophet Musa that Allah conveyed the essence of true religion. The Almighty said. 'I was sick, and you did not come to see me. I was hungry, and you did not give me food.' Musa asked 'My God, can you also be sick and hungry?' God replied 'My servant so-and-so was sick, and my servant so-and-so was hungry. If you had visited one and fed the other, you would have found me with them.

Masjid ddhaa dey, Mandar ddhaa dey Ddhaa dey jo kuchh ddhenda. Ik kisey da dil na ddhavein Rabb dilaan vicch rehndaa

The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.

A husband comes home from satsang and greets his wife, lifts her up and carries her around the house. His wife is surprised and asks, 'Did the Swami ji preach about being romantic today?' Her husband replies, 'No, he said we must carry our burdens and sorrows with a smile.

There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and sexual intercourse is the first step towards it. He maintains that religion as it is practised, is false, and its propagators are agents of Satan. They have degraded love and taught us the negation of life. The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.

Yahan khuda hai, wahan khuda hai... idhar khuda hai, udhar khuda hai... jahan nahin khuda hain, wahan kal khudega... Contributed

In the name of Nanak, By the hope that faith doth instill, By the Grace of God, We bear the world nothing but good will.

the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.

The passengers and crew gathered each morning and evening and each Sunday for prayers,

This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim it for ourselves. But nothing can stop that claiming - not the eight million gods nor the spirits nor ghosts. Nothing but ourselves, anyway. And our lives become the poems we were born to tell.

Do not kneel," said Claire Jurat in a voice like thunder, like earths breaking and stars forming. "No more gods.

Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.' 'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.

She wasn't a Christian just on Sunday mornings; being a Christian was the core of who she was. And I adored that about her.

God's miracles are a prayer away.

Skipping isn't for everyone. Getting out of our comfort zones for a momentary skipping escape takes guts. It is much more difficult than many realize. Our ego likes to feel in control and is afraid of what others will think.... When we can learn to simply observe our ego's fear and then choose to skip on despite it, we develop the spiritual strength necessary for inner peace.

It takes a while to understand that there is something out there bigger than you, something greater than what you've designed for yourself.

By choosing not to forgive, I was telling God that I loved my stance of self-justification more than Him.

God created us to know Him and pursue a growing relationship with Him daily. Out of that relationship pours the overflow, the river of His love that joins us to Him and each other.

There is an entire industry out there that is aimed at making spiritual people feel special—all in return for a fee.

I find it hard to believe that a genuine spiritual master will tell me what to do when such a master should know that I will grow only by making my own decisions. For some people I have met, having a cosmic being give them personal instructions gives them a clear sense of being validated by the highest authority.

do believe it is possible for us to communicate with beings in a higher realm and that many people are meant to do so in this age.