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Quotes About Spirituality

Buddham Saranam Gocchami, I take refuge in the Buddha, Sangham, I take refuge in the church, Dhammam, I take refuge in the Dharma, the truth.
~ Jack Kerouac
I play games with her fabulous eyes and she longs to be in a monastery
~ Jack Kerouac
Life is holy and every moment is precious.
~ Jack Kerouac
Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.
~ Jack Kerouac
Maybe that bird that floats hill belly on the wind up there, and that cat that pats in this grass, is the same Infinite Worldwide Angel
~ Jack Kerouac
I have fallen in love with you,God.
~ Jack Kerouac
What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgements and pray for the light.
~ Jack Kerouac
Did they know that he stood on the bow every morning, noon, and night for an hour...this prayer of thanks to a God more a God than any to be found in book-bound, altar-bound Religion?
~ Jack Kerouac
Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and 'kitchen machinery' he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not they live like Dharma Bums.
~ Jack Kerouac
I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen and bedroom right on my back, and go off somewhere and find perfect solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, too, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world.
~ Jack Kerouac
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - What is the meaning of the void? The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.
~ Jack Kerouac
Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.
~ Jack Kerouac
Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, Perché? E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente.
~ Jack Kerouac
God bless child even when he get old.
~ Jack Kerouac
Qual è la tua strada, amico?... la strada del santo, la strada del pazzo, la strada dell'arcobaleno, la strada dell' imbecille, qualsiasi strada. È una strada in tutte le direzioni per tutti gli uomini in tutti i modi. Che direzione che uomo che modo?»
~ Jack Kerouac
because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" What
~ Jack Kerouac
What difference does it make after all? For what's heaven? What's Earth? All in the mind.
~ Jack Kerouac
All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.
~ Jack Kerouac
There's a purpose to knowledge … salvation. What good are my visions or your visions, beautifully and laboriously worked out in art, if the purpose of it is not to save something in our souls and make it all beautiful.
~ Jack Kerouac
at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!
~ Jack Kerouac
arrastraba los pies tras ellos como he venido haciendo toda mi vida con la gente que me interesa, porque la única gente que me interesa es la que está loca, la que está loca por vivir, por hablar, ávida de todas las cosas a un tiempo, la gente que jamás bosteza o dice un lugar común..., sino que arde, arde, arde como candelas romanas en medio de la noche.
~ Jack Kerouac
Findes der en bestemt og tydelig lære der kan gives alle levende væsener?" var det spørgsmål man sikkert stillede den snehvide Dipankara med de buskede øjenbryn, og hans svar var diamantens brølende stilhed.
~ Jack Kerouac
One night in a meditation vision Avalokitesvara the Hearer and Answerer of Prayer said to me 'You are empowered to remind people that they are utterly free' so I laid my hand on myself to remind myself first and then felt gay, yelled 'Ta,' opened my eyes, and a shooting star shot.
~ Jack Kerouac
The most religious moments of American life are undergone on Saturday nights.
~ Jack Kerouac