Quotes About Spirituality

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things.

A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven.

Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.

In tantra we have complete faith in the winds of eternity. The key to tantra yoga is to feel that you are not the doer, that you cannot possibly act. All you have to do in life is to accept.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Tantra is for extremists, but balanced extremists.

According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.

A man is a god in ruins.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.

Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.