Quotes About Spirituality

Christopher Hitchens

Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.

Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.

There is one voice we never hear. God does not speak in the whole book of Lamentations.11 Heaven is silent. Which does not necessarily mean that heaven is deaf or blind. We shall consider later what Kathleen O'Connor calls 'the power of the missing voice'.

Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars.

Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.

Nothing fucks up a religion like an intervention from a real God.

You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

Your soul may be more evolved than you are right now. If a kid fails tenth grade, do you make him repeat grades K through nine?" "No, I guess not." "No, you just make him start over at the beginning of tenth grade. Well, it's the same with souls. They only ascend. A person gets a soul when they can carry it to the next level, when they are ready to learn the next lesson.

Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain and suffering This is what Death is. —The Book of Living and Dying (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)

pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;

So, from what you guys are saying, there are thousands of humans walking around without souls?' 'Millions, probably,' Charlie said. 'Maybe that explains the last election.

A little mucus is nothing against the power of the Lord.

So that's what you think you're going to do? Bring God to everyone?" "Yes. After a nap." "Of course, I meant after a nap.

Las tres joyas del taoísmo son la compasión, la moderación y la humildad…

the monks called it Jew-dô, meaning the way of the Jew.

fármacos y el perdón pueden convertir el morir en un momento gozoso:

God is willing to forgive you the sin that you carry for being a child of man, but you must forgive yourself for having once been a child.

He and two of the older monks who had been soldiers devised for Joshua a regimen of weaponless fighting that involved no offense or striking at all, but instead channeled the energy of an attacker away from oneself. Since the new art was practiced only by Joshua (and sometimes myself), the monks called it Jew-dô, meaning the way of the Jew.

the preferable way to treat one another is with love and kindness; that pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity; and that somehow, as human beings, we are all connected spiritually.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

Sólo porque sigas una fe en concreto, eso no significa que sea el camino correcto... quizás ninguna religión contenga toda al verdad del mundo. Quizá cada religión contenga fragmentos de la verdad y nosotros tengamos la responsabilidad de identificar esos fragmentos y volver a unirlos. Oromis

How am I supposed to know which religion is the true religion? he wondered. Just because someone follows a certain faith does not necessarily

God is great, God is good, Let us thank him For our food. Amen.