Quotes About Spirituality

To fathom hell or soar angelic/Just take a pinch of psychedelic.

God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

You must understand that in the afterlife, our personalities reflect an adult situation anyway, so we can say for sure that there will be no children in hell.

I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.

Am I going to have to die first before I come here every time? Because no offense, but for fuck's sake, I can just give you a cell phone to call.

Don't be so touchy. I have my faith, and my faith has me." Odd

I see your soul," he said. "That is why I find you beautiful.

V—" "You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish … let me think. Yeah …" Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a voice that cracked, he said, "May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall soft upon your fields. And … my dearest friend … until we meet again may the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand.

It's not about the things. It's about your place in this world. It's the space you declare as yours emotionally and spiritually.

Eckhart is saying that once we become empty of all the dross within, God the Mystery can do nothing but rush in to fill the vacuum of our absence. It is up to each one of us to choose between suffocating in the vortex of the limited, knowable self, or instead to cut the cords which bind, and let ourselves drift out into, and be, the vast, incomprehensible sea of Being itself.

8  ââ'¬Å"The well-practiced mind does not wander after anything else. Through constant practice (abhyasa yoga) living becomes a lifelong meditation on the Divine. Then, no matter what you may be doing, you are imbibing godly tendencies. This becomes a habit of the mind. Educate your mind to this habit. This is how one finds God and goes to God.

beyond time, space, and circumstances to the place where the mind is tranquil and ego disappears.

22  ââ'¬Å"These wise ones have transcended the pairs of opposites; they are the same in success or failure, indifferent to loss or gain; they never bother to compete or compare, are free of envy, and contentedly shoulder whatever comes to them. They too are not bound by karmic consequences even though performing worldly actions.

Detachment is the means for rising above worldly activities and getting to a state beyond the worldly.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.