Quotes About Spirituality

About conscience - sense of right / wrong) No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.

The majority of prisoners suffered from a kind of inferiority complex. We all had once been or had fancied ourselves to be 'somebody.' Now we were treated like complete nonentities (The consciousness of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners, possess it?)

Due to the essentially self-transcendent quality of human existence man is a being reaching out beyond himself.

It is a tenet of Logotherapy that transcendence is the essence of existence. What is meant by this tenet is that existence is authentic only to the extent to which it points to something that is not itself. [...] Man [...] finds himself only to the extent to which he loses himself in the first place, be it for the sake of something or somebody, for the sake of a cause or a fellow-man, or "for God's sake.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Modern man needs to be considered as more than a psycho-physical reality. His spiritual existence cannot be neglected. He is not a mere organism. He is a person.

Tình yêu không ch? g?n li?n vá»›i sá»± hi?n h?u c?a th? xác. Tình yêu tìm th?y ý nghÄ©a sâu s?c nh?t trong tâm trí, trong chính ná»™i tâm c?a con ng??i. Cho dù ng??i ?y có thá»±c sá»± t?n t?i, có còn s?ng hay không cÅ©ng không quan tr?ng.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

Armastus on ülim eesmärk, milleni inimene võib jõuda.

tengo mis dudas acerca de que sea posible hablar de Dios, y a veces sospecho que quizás lo único factible sea hablar con Dios

Si existe Dios, estoy convencido de que no tomará a mal que alguien lo intercambie con el propio Yo y se dirija a Él como a un Tú.

Si, como hombre adulto, debió usted sufrir el infierno del campo de concentración, o, como dice la Biblia, apurar hasta las heces el cáliz del dolor, y fue capaz de superar todo esto sin odio y con amor a la humanidad, es usted una prueba viva de Dios.

Viktor Frankl

The ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man.

Friend, have the courage To care little for wealth, and shape yourself, You too, to merit godhead.

namaste - it means, roughly translated, I honor the Deity within you. that is precisely what we do when we open our hearts to another; we honor the fact that he or she, like us, is a child or the same loving Father, worthy of all respect and careful attention.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

Thoughts are divine.

If you are losing your leisure, look out! -- It may be you are losing your soul.

Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.

Better is it', she thought, 'to be clothed with poverty and ignorance, which are the dark garments of the female sex; better be quit of martial ambition, the love of power, and all the other manly desires if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures known to the humane spirit, which are', she said aloud as her habit was when deeply moved, 'contemplation, solitude, love.

it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their feelings

Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.